"Knowledge Base": 100 practical materials on the topic of sound, audio and not only

Today we prepared a mega collection of materials from our “ Hi-Fi World ”. Here are collected guides, practical tips on choosing audio equipment and operating tips.

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• Should I trust the "beautiful graphics" and reviews in the press?
• Testing player programs for macOS X against regular iTunes
• Conversion Guide for Vinyl to Digital Files (Windows)
• Audio calibration: why make electronic correction?
• Why not all codecs are equally useful

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Hi-Fi on PC

• We build the right computer desk music lover
• "Iron" to listen to high quality music
• Music Only: Making the PC system unit quiet
• Network music: Computer for Hi-Fi
• TOP-5: Learn to computer sound

Players and Amplifiers

• How I used a VHS video recorder for recording
• How to get the best sound from a CD player
• Where to store a large collection of high quality music
• Scientific approach to the choice of power amplifier
• The best amplifiers of the XXI century

Streaming and network players

• All about streaming and network players
• Network Music: High Quality Publications
• Network music: From plate to file
• The history of the first digital media players
• Understanding Network Music Formats

Formats and heading "without wires"

• Audio Podcast: “Audio and Video Formats”
• Vinyl and CD: the taste and color: Pros and cons of formats
• Bluetooth audio: Wringing the most out of a wireless connection
• What wireless technology is right for you?
• Understanding wireless audio technology

"Improvers"

• What are Soundcare SuperSpikes spikes and why use them
• Vibration using the example of Audiocore, Soundcare, Nordost and Cold Ray cones
• How to improve the sound of acoustics using digital correction
• Cold Ray hardware and acoustic racks: Theory and practice of the best productions
• Cold Ray Sound Correction Tools

Interior preparation

• The basics of acoustics for dummies: How to arrange the speakers in the room
• Myths and reality: How to make audio equipment an element of the interior
• Equip your listening room: Tips from Yuri Fomin
• How to prepare a room for listening to music
• Correct room acoustics

• Types of acoustic speaker design
• Difficulties of the room, or How to make a cinema opposite the window
• How to make your own "room for music"
• Room acoustics: Tips and tweaks
• Audio podcast "Background sound of premises"

Vinyl

• How to digitize vinyl
• How to set up a turntable
• Vinyl Academy ProJect: Lesson One
• Customize the turntable
• How to get the best sound from a turntable

• Setting up a vinyl player: Do not break needles
• How to reanimate a bent vinyl record
• How to digitize vinyl records: Part 1
• How to digitize vinyl records: Part 2
• Where and how to install a turntable

• How to clean the needle and other nuances for a vinyl lover
• Vinyl: Features that are not customary to talk about
• Tips for the care and storage of vinyl records
• Change the head of a vinyl player with your own hands
• How to install and configure the player: Tips from Alt Jonk van den Hula

• Talking About Vinyl Audio Podcast
• Vinyl record device
• Vinyl Tricks: Eliminate Defects on Vinyl Records
• Old New Vinyl Audio Podcast
• Therefore does not play

Home cinema

• Review: Two New Cinema Halls from Audiomania
• Why we decided to build two cinema halls in Audiomenia's showroom
• Building a home theater: Acoustic room treatment (part 1)
• Building a Home Cinema: Choosing Acoustics, Installing and Setting It Up (Part 2)
• How to build a home cinema with a wide screen

• Home cinema audio podcast
• What is Dolby Atmos and is it possible to apply this technology at home
• Dolby Atmos or multichannel sound without channels
• What is DTS: X, or stop counting columns
• What is a “wireless multiroom”

Video

• Calibrating a projector or television at home (part 1)
• What to buy: LCD TV or OLED TV? Detailed comparison
• 4K-resolution in projectors: Myths and detail
• What is Dolby Vision: answers to important questions
• How to set up a TV

• Choosing a projection screen for 4K video
• Why do I need to calibrate the projector and TV and how to achieve maximum
• Projector and TV Calibration: Philosophy, Goals, and Means (Part 1)
• What is HDR-TV and why it shows brighter and blacker
• Everything you need to know about HDR TV

Headphones and DACs

• Audio podcast "Headphones and DACs"
• Choosing the best DAC (part 4)
• Digital to Analog Converters: Questions and Answers
• Portable Audio Systems: Myths and Reality
• How musicians choose headphones: Do not believe advertising, believe your ears

• Children's headphones can be dangerous, or watch the volume
• How to clean headphones: Plug-in, overhead and EarPods
• Choosing headphones with active noise cancellation
• In-ear headphones: Price, design and sound quality
• Full-size headphones for the street: Compare models of the closed type

Portable speakers

• DALI Katch wireless speaker test: portable does Hi-Fi
• Star District: Monster SuperStar Blaster Bluetooth Audio System BoomBox
• Review of the portable speaker Denon DSB-100 Envaya mini
• Marshall - a powerful column with a male character
• Overview of wireless speakers Bowers & Wilkins T7

• Comparing Portable Acoustics Soundlink Mini and Fugoo Tough
• Overview of the portable speaker Marshall Acton
• Bluetooth speaker group test (Jawbone, Denon, B & O, Cambridge Audio)
• Review portable speakers Denon Envaya DSB-200
• Speakers NudeAudio: Minimalism is not a hindrance sound

PS We will be glad to see your variants of interesting guides, reviews, life hacking and various recommendations in the field of sound and audio in the comments to the material, friends!