Thread: Importance of Surround Sound in Home Theaters

When setting-up a Home Theater you ought to honestly manipulate about installing surround sound - otherwise your setup will lack the essential part of the Home Theater experience! Although ordinary speakers will mimic the sounds of the motion picture, the surround sound speakers will provide greater quality and kind of feel as if you're sitting appropriate in the core of the dogfight on the screen.

Latest surround sound speakers are equipped with a digital media dock which will provide even more flexibility. This enable you to fool around songs from your iPod, Computer, or any Bluetooth Devices. By utilizing this dock you can take the music on these equipments and channel them through the surround sound so you can have the benefit of the amazing tone and range that speakers can generate.

If you are looking in favor of the unsurpassed in quality sound, keep in mind that you have got to consider having among 3 to 5 wall mountable speakers and a sub-woofer. Ideally, the finest way to place these speakers comprises two front speakers, a sub-woofer, solitary spotlight amplifier (central speaker) and two rear speakers. This way you will produce the sound surround orderliness you be looking for.


Installing surround sound speakers can be annoying by greatest, particular the unwarranted wiring on the floor, under the floor (along with the drilled holes) or worming beside baseboards, it can be a daunting task. However, you can eliminate all this nuisance by purchasing wireless speakers!

There are bonus information you could aspire to look into. For instance, if you would like to place your central speaker close to the television, purchase one that is magnetic shielded; otherwise you run the hazard of distorting television's image. The sub-woofer you buy in addition requires its own power supply.

Finding the correct receiver is crucial pro your Surround Sound experience. The ideal receiver will allow you to control show and composition output indepedently, to plug in headphones and other accessories straightforwardly, and has at least a 4-channel Dolby Pro Logic decoder. Additionally, Auto Calibration and Digital Cinema Sound will provide the crispest listening experience. Finally, approve of the highest-wattage receiver you can afford.

Installing surround sound is very time-consuming and complicated, so you might long to hire a skilled to perform the job. Picking the authentic receiver and speakers is very nearly the life-threatening part, so once you finish that aim, you've won the majority of the battle.

Quite good.

A small point. Only tracks recorded with 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound and a decoder will give true surround sound.

For example, pure audio in your iPOD or any MP3 player is pure stereo and you will not get surround effect. Whatever is done by the system is a simulation at best.

Same about downlaoded movies (from torrents or elsewhere). DViX or XVid sources do not have Dolby Digital or DTS sound. Hence the receiver in your system cannot decode these tracks and produce true surround sound.

p/s. Have a look at my guide (link in my signature).

actually, wireless speakers have a huge disadvantage. They need to be powered so each speaker needs a power nearby and you will eventually have a wire running from the top of the wall to socket, which essentially brings you back to the original problem lol.

Also, to readers who are interested in buying a home theater, just a reminder, never look at the PMPO rating, ask him for RMS rating. If for that he says "sir its 3000W RMS" for a Rs10000-15000 system, let me tell you he does not know what he is talking about.

Another new gadget is the sound bar. It is basically one speaker unit that emulates the surround sound effect. I had gone for a demo and i found it pretty good, you guys should try it too.

True about power requirement for the Wireless speaker. But each wireless speaker will not require a power. For example, the rear speaker enitire set will have one cord running to the mains.

But essentially you still end up having a wire although it may not be as bad.

However, wireless speakers will come at an extra cost.

but then you will have one chord between the speakers itself

The set i had seen, each of the rear speakers had one power cable each. The front ones were all wired. I am not sure but even sony has those wireless kits now right ? (as in they are in india Sony)