Tech talk

Is one subwoofer enough to excite the room properly? For a small or medium-sized room, it might just get away...

Ask about the best position for the subwoofer and the textbook advice is usually to avoid corners. According to Roland...

A small subwoofer looks like it should be able to handle "the bass" — after all, that's its one job....

When you want to upgrade bass performance from 1 subwoofer that's been pushed to its limit, the instinct is often...

Yes, in many real rooms it's possible to localise the subwoofer, even though the textbook answer is that humans can't...

In short, no — not with the kind of absorbers most listeners reach for first. Bass problems in a room...

Room treatment and room calibration often get treated as competing solutions — pick one or the other. According to Roland...

It's an easy assumption to make: every speaker calibration system uses a microphone, every one of them measures sound in...

It's a reasonable assumption: a subwoofer exists to play bass, the LFE channel carries bass, so surely they're effectively the...

It's an odd idea when you say it out loud: ripping a chunk of frequency range out of the main...

In this walkthrough of auto-calibrating Genelec high-end systems, Marcel Schechter introduces the hi-fi side of Genelec's line-up — all built...

Once a Genelec SAM speaker is in the room, the tool that actually measures and corrects for that room is...

What actually makes a loudspeaker "smart"? According to Marcel Schechter of Genelec, the answer starts with room acoustics: where a...

Steinway Lyngdorf Model B engineering, explained in detail: after reviewing the speaker, we wanted to understand how Peter Lyngdorf and...

Surround sound with just 4 speakers is Peter Lyngdorf's favourite demo trick. While talking through the upgrade path from the...

Steinway Lyngdorf's P300 is the latest generation of the brand's multichannel processor — a product Peter Lyngdorf half-jokingly calls out...