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Everything we cover, organized by type. Pick a category for buying advice and our best-of picks.

Soundbars
A soundbar is the fastest way to fix bad TV audio without rewiring a room. Modern TVs are thin, and thin cabin…
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AV Receivers
An AV receiver is the hub of a traditional home theater: it takes in video and audio from your sources, decode…
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Bookshelf Speakers
Bookshelf speakers are the most flexible building block in home audio. They're compact enough to sit on stands…
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Subwoofers
A subwoofer handles the low frequencies that small speaker drivers physically can't reproduce cleanly — the ch…
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Projectors
A projector gets you a genuinely huge image — 100 inches and up — for less money than an equivalently sized fl…
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Projector Screens
A dedicated screen makes a bigger difference to picture quality than most people expect — projecting onto a pl…
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4K Blu-ray Players
Streaming has replaced discs for most day-to-day viewing, but 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray still delivers the best pict…
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Streaming Devices
Even smart TVs with built-in streaming apps usually benefit from an external streaming device — TV software te…
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