Wednesday, July 22, 2009

4 Simple Steps for Effective Hot Tub Maintenance

Your hot tub is built to be tough and durable, able to withstand all that heat and weight but without proper maintenance, it won't be long before you'll need to replace it. Avoid this unnecessary expense and use these simple maintenance tips to prolong the life of your hot tub so you can enjoy its benefits longer:

Know your hot tub

Your hot tub comes with the manufacturer's instruction manual. Read this guide before using your hot tub and try to familiarize yourself with your particular tub system. Hot tubs might have the same use but not all of them have the same functions. Try to learn about how your unit works.

Learn to identify your tub's pump, heater, control box, timer, thermostat and filter. Familiarize yourself with how it's supposed to work, look and sound so if anything goes wrong, you will be able to tell immediately.

Clean your filtration system

Your filtration system is the main hot tub component that keeps the water clean and safe. If you're a regular hot tub user, clean your filters regularly; at least once or twice a week. At first, your filtration system will do an excellent job at making sure your water is good to use. Over time, the filters will start to degrade even with regular cleaning. Replace your filters after about 10 to 12 months.

Check your heater and pumps regularly

Part of your hot tub maintenance schedule should be to inspect your heater and pumps to ensure that they are working properly. If you notice any deficiency in performance, such as when water temperature becomes too cold or too hot even when controls are set or if water is not drained properly, check these components immediately. It is much easier to correct a problem with your equipment early on than to wait until it breaks down. If you are unfamiliar with the problem, call your manufacturer or have your hot tub serviced immediately.

Clean your hot tub

One of the reasons why you should be conscious of the maintenance of your hot tub is water safety. Test the water regularly to determine its pH level. Apart from the fact that the inappropriate pH level can affect your skin, it can also promote corrosion of the heater coil. Once the coil is corroded, the heater will become inefficient in producing heat. Test your water at least once weekly. You might also want to change your water every 8 to 12 weeks, depending on use.

Friday, July 17, 2009

How to Find the Right Speakers and Subwoofer


If you intend to buy new speakers, there are clue in order to find the best one.
1. Compare one type into another, and find out what is the best suit to your purpose. Make sure that most of the feature you need is already in it.
2. Stability, find and make sure that speakers are made from best quality materials, because it determine that how long that we use it.
3. Check what the power output of each speaker is.
4. Your recommend to find that the speakers has adjusting volume level by self, so not just from main receiver
5. Specified that the speaker that you want to buy is match to your priority needed...
6. Has a Driver
The no.5 is much people always little bit forget, that this would determine that the type or size of the speakers you might need.
And the other important thing that for you to be consider is that please re-check that it already include the woofer, the tweeter and the satellite. Since the tweeters will produce high frequencies whereas the woofer will produce lower frequencies.
If you are expecting a nice music listening for relax, then you need speakers that composed of subwoofer and satellites.
Car Subwoofer
For this moment in line with developments in technology, any kind or type and brand of subwoofer could easily find in the market which will fit for your car or purposes. And this also a kind of a strategy of the manufacture in order to serve user or customer satisfaction and needs of music.
Before installing the subwoofer, it a must that you make sure the place that you intend to put them, either behind the seats or another place. If you have listed in your mind what type, brand you need, it could make you focus browsing for the stuff.
Regarding to this topic about subwoofer, it is very important for you to install subwoofer, since subwoofer create a lower midrange sound and bass. So that why, you have to buy a good quality of subwoofer, because it affect your car audio sounds. This exquisite sounds if you are fanatic of R&B. You will enjoy the power of the bass, and the exquisite jar your vehicle

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Subwoofers - The Speaker with the Big Bark

Executive summary by Victor Epand


First created in the 1960s, the subwoofer was developed in response to complaints about a lack of bass response in electrostatic speakers. The result was that subwoofers became increasingly popular in domestic settings.

Since that time, there has been an ever increasing popularity for subwoofers in home stereo systems, home theatre audio systems, and car audio systems. The introduction of surround sparked a trend of subwoofer installation in cinemas. That system was succeeded by the Dolby Stereo 70 mm Six Track, which was in turn followed by Altec's dedicated cinema subwoofer model, the 8182. Today, the THX certification qualifications define the parameters for audio systems in the cinema, including subwoofer requirements. In addition to commercial applications, almost all modern home theatre audio systems feature a subwoofer supplemented by two to five small "satellite" speakers.

The advantage of having a subwoofer as part of an audio system is that it allows the satellite speakers to be smaller without sacrificing low frequency capability. For optimum low frequency sound, experts recommend that the subwoofer be placed in a corner of the room, far from large room openings and close to the listener.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Car Amplifier

Understanding a Car Amplifier

You will need an amplifier for your car stereo, if you want to have steady loud sound. Because the amplifier need for increase the power flow from the receiver to the speakers.

Regarding to that, so the important things would become is how to choose the right car amplifier. But in this topic we would remind for some tips on choosing the right car amplifier.

  1. Look at the number of channels that match to your number of speakers that you have. Because Two-channel amplifier provide two speakers or on its own subwoofer. If you want to make combination of four speakers, two subwoofers or two speakers with one subwoofer, you could think of a four channel amplifier.
  2. Out put of power. If your amplifier has an out put as much two times of receiver, it enough to increase volume but less of distortion.
  3. Wattage of your amplifier still in the speaker’s range. And wire electrical system support the wattage.
  4. Connection structure of amplifier. Because many of the car amplifier need special adaptors, since many of the factory just provide receivers with speaker level input.

How ever, an amplifier must have a filter to arrange, manage distortion and different frequencies which called a crossover. Because an amplifier need the device to manage between high frequencies and low frequencies. And some time that you need experience to manage distortion through the speakers.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Home Theatre

The important Things about How to Choose a Good Speaker

By Janggun


For that reason, it very fundamental to choose a good speaker, that will bring high quality of sound and which has frequency level such as the 2-way and 3-way speakers. However, at this moment most of the speakers are engineered to duplicate active and energy digital sources.

An innovative design been made, they carried detailed and powerful sound. Moreover, at this time, there are various speakers to choose, which has large power speaker to a great sounding that match to your need. But, once the options come rising up, the decision has to made very carefully.

Just to remind that the first step you have to-do in choosing a good speaker is to decide what type of speakers is needed. The floor standing speaker, a subwoofer or settlement system speaker either it is in wall, ceiling or an open air speaker.
In fact, those different speakers have different qualities and features, so just choose the type of speaker which match to your purposes. For example, floor standings speakers has larger wide range of frequencies and deep bass, meanwhile subwoofers has a amazing performance even smallest in shape.

For that reason, one to prefer has made by right decision. High sound does not always mean noisy, it means quality sound with common listening level.
Good speakers indicate that could distribute clear, natural and dynamic sound but has no distortion. In addition that a good speaker has ability to build live performance fantasy. Important thing to be considered when choose speaker is that just quality. It is no need whether branded speaker or a second hand speaker.
In case of the speaker required for special use, for example as use for show concert, radio or television station, it should have a high quality and physically strong and need high cost and usually expensive

In fact, beside the quality of the sound, the cabinet is another thing has to be an important to be considered; it has to be of best quality. If the cabinet construction and material is made from low quality or made from thin material then noise should come from the cabinet. When the sound comes fixed and inflexible it indicates that the cabinet move overflowing of air.