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Top 10 Cheap or Free Home Theater Upgrades [Lifehacker Top 10]

Source: Lifehacker

Feb 07, 2009

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You've got a mind-blowing picture, surround sound, and streaming content set up, but it wasn't cheap. Heal your wallet with ten upgrades, fixes, and setup tips that take your system to 11 on the cheap.

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10. Hide away your discs in style

Not everybody wants their CD or DVD collection to be a proud, visible part of their living room. And a lot of people have had old-school, giant-box speakers shoved in their garages, or offered up constantly by parents, aunts, uncles, or anyone else with a formerly hi-fi system. An Instructables user came up with a media cabinet made from broken speakers. If you're still feeling like you've got too many disc boxes to shove in any container, consider clearing out your DVD clutter.

9. Make your own speaker mounts

Once you start buying home theater components, the little high-margin items add up real quick, and speaker mounts are no different. For $2 in materials and an hour's work, you can get your 5.1 components off the ground for better sound and hoist them on your DIY speaker wall mounts. Because, seriousl