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Originally posted at The Audiophiliac

From Tom’s Guide

The folks over at Tom’s Guide have gone through the web, saved what they think are the best Black Friday deals, and compiled them into one mega list. The full list is available here. For your convenience, I’ve listed the different promos below:

1. Cheapest Point and Shoot with 12+ MP
2. Cheapest Point and Shoot with 3x Optical Zoom
3. Cheapest HD Camcorder
4. Cheapest Flip Competitor
5. Best Wii Bundle
6. Best XBox 360 Bundle
7. Best PS3 bundle
8. Best Handheld Bundle
9. Cheapest Blu-ray Player for Home Theater
10. Cheapest Internal Blu-ray Player for PC
11. Best Desktop Speaker Deal
12. Best Home-Theater Speaker Deal
13. Best 50″ 1080p Plasma Deal
14. Best 1080p 42″ LCD Deal
15. Best 720p 50″ Plasma Deal
16. Best 720p 42″ LCD Deal
17. Best 720p 32″ LCD Deal
18. Best LED TV Deal
19. Best Netbook Deal
20. Best Laptop Deal
21. Cheapest Notebook with Blu-ray
22. Best All-In-One PC Deal
23. Best Desktop PC Deal
24. Cheapest 1 TB External Drive
25. Cheapest External Drive Bigger Than 1 TB
26. Best Internal Hard Drive Deal
27. Cheapest 20″ Screen
28. Cheapest 24″ Screen (ASUS VW246H Black 24″ 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor Built in Speakers)
29. Best Universal Remote Deal
30. Best GPS Deal
31. Best Android Smartphone Deal

From NewEgg.com

NewEgg has its own Black Friday page up, right here: NewEgg.com Black Friday promo page

Post from: The Gadget Blog

A music-oriented home theater speaker system from Dynaudio.

(Credit: Dynaudio)

First thing, determine your system’s priorities. Will you watch movies or listen to music? Most folks do one or the other.

Since more home theater speaker buyers watch movies than listen to music, I’ll start there.

It’s hardly an overstatement to claim movie-oriented home theater systems succeed or fail based on their center channel’s performance and sound quality. The center speaker delivers virtually all the dialog and it can, depending on the mix, convey upward of 80 percent of a movie’s soundtrack. The center speaker has a big job.

So invest 30 percent of your 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 system budget on the center speaker, the Center Centric HT approach. As always, when it comes to sound quality, size matters. Bigger centers tend to sound better than small ones.

The subwoofer is the next most important player in a home theater sound system. Invest the next 30 percent of your dollars on the sub. The sub is largely responsible for home theater impact and power.

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Originally posted at The Audiophiliac