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Bass - foundations
Season 1, Ep. 3
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Get the bass right and everything else flows beautifully - but in domestic sized rooms it's a hard engineering challenge, possibly the hardest job a home cinema designer has. This week Tom and Owen set out the problem and some of the remedies, preparing the ground for further episodes on the subject.
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