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Home cinema buying guides, comparisons and setup guidesGuides

Practical help for choosing, comparing and setting up home cinema equipment. Product facts come from the manufacturers’ own specifications and manuals, and every guide says how it was put together.

Buying Guides

What to look for before you buy, and how to match equipment to your room.

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Until then, these pieces in the Journal cover some of the same ground:

Comparisons

Two products side by side: what is actually different, and whether the difference is worth paying for.

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Setup Guides

Connections, settings and calibration, step by step.

Guides in this section are on the way.

Until then, these pieces in the Journal cover some of the same ground:

Explainers

What a feature or format does, in plain words.

Guides in this section are on the way.

Until then, these pieces in the Journal cover some of the same ground: