When most people think about home theater systems and their relative home theater components, they don’t really tend to think about volume control devices. Heck, when I was buying the awesome theater components that I have in the wonderful setup in my living room, I never thought about such a gadget, not even one time. However, there were some things that I noticed shortly after really using my home theater components to watch TV: different channels are louder than others and this can get really annoying when you are surfing the TV channels and then, all of sudden, your ears are blasted by another channel that has a really loud volume on it, and blares your home theater component like they are an air raid siren in your living room! Lucky for you and me, they make some home theater component called volume controllers that easily remedy this dilemma. I finally added that missing home theater component piece to the puzzle last weekend and now my setup is truly complete. No more getting my ears blown off my head when changing TV channels!