Sound advice: Configure surround sound yourself

QI have a Yamaha RX-V1900 receiver that replaced a Sony unit that lacked HDMI. My problem is that I don't seem to be hearing surround sound. I used the supplied setup microphone and have been getting poor results. I've been over the manual three times. What am I doing wrong?

Jawbone Big Jambox review

It was back in February when we first caught wind a beefier version of Jawbone's Jambox, thanks to some less-than-stealthy ninjas at the FCC . Today it's officially here . Dubbed Big Jambox, this $300 Bluetooth speakerphone and "smartspeaker" is unsurprisingly a supersized -- yet still portable -- version of the new-age micro-boombox that the won us over back in 2010. Naturally, there have been ...

MSI GT70 gaming laptop review

MSI outs new GT60 / GT70 gaming laptops, we go hands-on (video) Everything old is new again: NVIDIA rebrands Fermi-based GPUs into 600-series Intel puts Ivy Bridge on the map: promises up to 20 percent faster CPU, doubled graphics, desktop quad-cores from $174 Now that Intel's let the cat out of the bag (and into the Ivy), it's high time we took a look at what manufactures are going to do with ...