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When it comes to acoustic treatment, utilizing your living room’s best aspects can accentuate and provide a richer sound. Understanding how sound travels throughout a room can completely change your home’s auditory experience. Before getting started with acoustic treatment, however, it’s a good idea to understand basic room acoustics.

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How many remotes does your system have? Many people are finding it difficult to control their entire setup. Television, audio systems, consoles, and cable boxes -- all of them often need to be controlled individually, leading to confusion. Luckily, there are some ways this can be addressed to create a system that is easier and faster to use.

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If you’ve ever seen a projector-centric home theater, you’ve probably wondered how it’s set up. Installing a projector and screen isn’t hard. You’ll need to mount the screen and projector, and you’ll need to do it correctly. To do so, you’ll need to make sure enough space is available. Check out the guide below, and create a space worth watching in.

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If you’ve invested in your flat panel television, you owe it to yourself to set it up correctly. Fortunately, flat panel televisions can be installed several ways. You have a lot of options available, and each is supported by your television bracket’s maximum weight capacity.

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At the end of the day, your home theater’s lifespan is determined by your care. It’s surprisingly easy to ruin fragile speakers, fry expensive electronics and blow out surge protectors. Too often, homeowners overheat their amps, blow their disc drives and melt their subwoofers. Don’t be a statistic. Check out these preventative maintenance tips:

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Home theaters provide an outlet for home entertainment, family time, and entertaining guests. However, if done incorrectly, it won't function the way you want it to and it won't provide the benefit you desire. The experts at Seven's Home Theater are experienced in home theater installation, flat panel TV installation, and installing flat panel TV mounts, but they want you to be happy with the finished effect. Take a look at a few of the choices you need to make to get the custom home experience you are looking for. 

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Because newer televisions are so slim and compact, it makes it easy to install them practically anywhere in your living room. With this new flexibility comes indecision. Where exactly should you mount your television? Here are some tips for choosing the best location for your TV installation.

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There's a wide range of home theater features available on the market, but only a few products that deserve your attention. Since sifting through what's available on the market can be very time consuming, a more focused approach is essential. Sevens Home Theater has installed every type of home theater system out there, so from screens to speakers, we have a pretty good idea of what type of equipment and features you should be looking for.

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The concept of replicating a movie theater experience in your home is not new. For many years, people have been installing home theater equipment of every imaginable type in their homes, ranging from a basic receiver and five speakers to dedicated rooms with equipment that rivals any entertainment venue out there.

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By the late 1930s, several radio manufacturers offered models featuring remote controls. Most of these were connected to the unit being controlled by wires, but in 1939, Philco premiered the Mystery Control, a battery-operated low-frequency radio (RF) transmitter considered to be the first wireless remote control for a consumer electronics device.

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