We’re used to Samsung updating its Q990 soundbar at CES every year, and 2026 is no different. However, the company also ...

For a long time, I’ve not seen the point in a subwoofer for music. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the low stuff as much as the next audio-nerd, but I’ve always considered a sub the territory of movie ...

When bass player Yerko Sepulveda had trouble hearing the sound of his instrument in a particularly busy mix, he opted to build a device that would allow him to feel the thunder. The resulting portable ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

The driving rhythms of deep powerful bass in rock and pop music as well as the timpani, bass drum and double basses of an orchestra complete the bottom few octaves of humans’ hearing range. Without it ...

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Where it comes to fine-tuning a home theater sound system for peak performance, finding those locations within a typical home listening space where a subwoofer can provide the most satisfying response ...

This guide is designed to address the numerous questions we receive from new home theater owners who purchase a new system component and don’t quite understand the How’s and Why’s of bass management.

Nowadays most people want tiny speakers and subwoofers, and they can sound fine, but only big subs can rock the house! Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end ...

Other things being equal (and there are many trade-offs that a designer may consider), the larger the woofer or woofers’ cones’ area and the larger the enclosure (those two have to be combined) the ...