Sunday, November 28, 2010

How To Set Up Your Surround Sound

By Lan Ke


Few things enhance home movie viewing like a new home theater surround sound system. Watching sci-fi and horror movies becomes much more of an experience when you can hear creatures sound like they are sneaking up from behind you or a laser blast zips from one side of the room to the other!

But how you can do you set up your system to attain these nice results? All of it comes down to speaker placement. Most home theater techniques can have five speakers and a sub woofer and many will have seven audio systems and a subwoofer. These are a referred to as 5.1 and 7.1 systems respectively. Fortunately, a bit of data on setup goes a protracted way.

Subsequent are the left and right front speakers. Usually, these shall be placed at about forty five levels from the listener's ears and flush with the entrance of the display as well. They need to be roughly the identical distance off the ground as your listener's ears when seated and watching a movie. Be certain each speaker is the same distance from the center of the screen.

With a 5.1 system you have two speakers remaining - the surround speakers. These should be placed to every facet of the listener or a bit behind them and few inches larger than ear level. Goal the speakers instantly at every other. If you have 7.1 methods you'll have again speakers to put in as well. These ought to be positioned immediately behind the listeners on the identical peak because the surround speakers.

The ultimate speaker for any system is the subwoofer. It may be positioned virtually wherever in the room since the human ear cannot generally localize the sound frequencies it produces. Mainly, this means folks will not have the ability to inform the place the sound is coming from and can merely be bathed in the bass sounds. Locating it someplace near the front of the room ought to be sufficient.

After all, there are many more subtleties to organizing a surround system but these concepts will can help you set you a good sounding system without getting hyper technical. Is that an alien I hear behind your couch? Enjoy!




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