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Room Treatments

A good-sounding space makes for a better home-entertainment room. And while it might be impractical for you to cover your room floor to ceiling with acoustical panels, many quicker - and cheaper - fixes are available. Companies like Acoustic Innovations, Panelfold, and Modular Theater Systems make acoustical panels priced from $1,000 to $2,500 that are ready to hang on the walls - and won't make your room look like an amateur recording studio.

"You can position them where you need acoustical help, particularly on the side walls," says Ted Hollander of Absolute Sound. "It's very easy to do, and it can make more difference to your system's sound quality than upgrading your amplifier."
Working the Room 6 Acoustic panels cover Modular Theater Systems' Avetower (above), which holds all of your A/V components - including a front projector - and Neo Proscenius (below) which houses a front-projection screen and conceals the front left, center, and right speakers. Working the Room 7

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