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Robert Harley's Guides to High-End Audio and Home Theater
The Complete Guide to High-End Audio
At last! All you need to know to become a knowledgeable buyer of today's home entertainment systems.
Robert Harley tells you what you need to know to become a better listener and better buyer of quality high-fidelity components. With this book, you will discover how to get the best sound for your money; how to identify the weak links in your system and upgrade where it will do the most good; how to set-up and "tweak" your system and get maximum performance from equipment you already own; how to read equipment reviews; and, most of all, how to become a more perceptive and appreciative listener. This book makes hi-fi more fun!.
In 15 fact-filled chapters and four appendices - covering everything from the basics to technical matters (in plain English!) - this book helps you to reap the benefits of Mr. Harley's years of reviewing experience, saving you time, trouble, trial and error. Your knowledge is as important as your money, maybe more so, because it's possible to assemble a wonderfully satisfying stereo system for far less money than you might think.
price: $44.95 (hardcover) | $34.95 (softcover)
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Highlights of the expanded, revised and updated Third Edition:
- More system set-up secrets
- Entirely new chapter on home theater
- How to add home theater without compromising music performance
- New digital technologies: Upsampling, digital-audio servers, portable players, MP3, hard-disk recording, and more
- High-resolution digital interfaces and copy protection
- Digital radio-Sirius and XM Satellite Radio
- Newly updated version of Robert Harley's highly controversial Audio Engineering Society paper that takes on the audio "objectivists."
- Expanded to 640 pages
- More than 270 photos and illustrations
- 550+ item glossary of audio terms
- New sections cover
- New acoustic treatment products
- High-resolution digital audio
- DVD-Audio
- Super Audio CD
- Making your digital purchase future-proof
- Loudspeaker placement in asymmetrical rooms
- Entirely new chapter on multichannel audio
These are just a few of the secrets you will learn:
- What reviewers don't tell you about tubed amplifiers
- Five home theater mistakes and how to avoid them
- How to make your speakers sound up to 50% better in 10 minutes - at no cost to you
- Ten turntable tweaks. Two of them are free.
- How to forget about the sound and enjoy the music.
- High end sound at low prices; how to do it cheap and still do it right
- How to find the one loudspeaker in 50 worth owning
- Why it sounded good in the showroom but doesn't at home
- The $5 alternative to $200 digital interconnects
- Why all "100 watt" amplifiers don't sound the same
