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What is the best configuration for your newly purchased home theater system? Several factors have to be considered before you even acquire the components. Are you an avid movie watcher or do you have pleasure in the HDTV sports packages so prevalent in today's cable TV set ups ? What is the shape of your viewing room ? What materials are there in that room? Do you mainly listen to music and what kind of music? Each of the answers will help to determine what your home theater design will be.

What you are trying to do is to copy the setting you find at a real movie theater to make the most of your viewing and listening pleasure. You have a surround sound system that can have all kind of loudspeaker settings. This is what distinguishes your home theater from a regular television viewing situation. In order to get the maximum benefit from these features, you should first decide where you want to place the wide screen TV and where you want to sit. As you do this, keep in mind that the speakers will have to be located in different locations around the room. This will give you the sense of actually being in the middle of the sound.

Your home theater design should also include the acoustic properties of the materials in the room. Bare walls have a bad influence on sound quality, as the reverberations be likely to muddy the sound. Some type of sound absorbing materials should be put in to help the acoustic balance. Ceiling panels, draperies, and rugs are all helpful in achieving this balance. The actual environment should be designed so that the lights in the room are controllable and are adding to the atmosphere. A dimmer switch on a few of the lights is probably the easiest method of controlling the lights , or you could put in buried lights to copy the lighting in a movie theater.

The physical comfort of the spectators is of equal significance in home theater design. Temperature sensors keeps the room at a comfortable level and suitable ventilation will give air movement for a pleasurable atmosphere.

The following step is to locate the speakers in the optimum configuration so as to heighten the listening experience. Surround sound speaker systems come in different packages with the basic one being the 5.1 channel set-up, arranged of three front speakers, two side speakers, and a sub-woofer. The 6.1 channel set-up adds a channel (a rear speaker) to the 5.1 configuration, while the 7.1 adds yet another sub-woofer for increased bass. Your ideal home theater configuration will take into consideration the necessity for best location of these loudspeakers in terms of the physical space required and optimum separation of sound . Putting the speakers on the floor is not the best way to place them , as the floor picks up the vibrations and twists the sound. Arrangements must be made to elevate the speakers so that nothing comes between your ears and the speakers. This will heighten your experience in the best home theater design possible.

So sit back, dim the lights, pass the popcorn, and enjoy the show.

Author Resource:- The author is the owner of Home Theater web site .
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Submitted 2009-07-23 16:36:15
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