Home theater: how to install its components correctly?

These popular today multimedia complexes are designed to show various films at home. Experts, as well as advanced users, assure that with the proper placement and setup of high-quality equipment, a home theater will give you much more impressions than an ordinary movie theater. Excellent sound, high-quality picture depends not only on the class of equipment, but also on correct setting, the location of all devices, creating the right acoustics in the room. We will understand what constitutes a home theater, and how to properly arrange all of its components.

Home Theater Components

To date home theater - this modern system of high-quality reproduction of audio and video signals in a home environment. This is a specific set of AV equipment, where each component performs its role. Only in the presence of a complete set of all the equipment will function properly.

What should a home theater consist of?

1. Signal source. They may even be an old VCR, but it is better to use modern models of HD-player or DVD-player. Some users use a high-performance PC for this purpose.
2. Amplifier or AV receiver.
3. Acoustic system (AC). It all depends on your personal preferences, but experts advise you to buy AC 5.1.
4. Display device.
5. Connection kit wires and cables.

The minimum configuration of a modern home cinema necessarily consists of the above components. Consider each of them in more detail.

The configuration of modern home theaters

Signal source

In the home theater, as mentioned above, absolutely any device can be used as a source: a satellite-type receiver or an HD DVD player of the latest release. PC, homemade karaoke, game consoles will be a successful addition, expanding the capabilities of the home movie display system.

AV receiver

This component is the brain of the whole complex. It necessarily contains a switch for video and audio signals, both analog and digital. The AV receiver is capable of connecting and transmitting a signal from 10 different sources. Digital signal processors (DSP microprocessors) are engaged in decoding and subsequent conversion of digital streams.

The processed stream goes to a preliminary amplification device, which sends it to a multi-channel power amplifier, consisting of several (5-7) amplifiers enclosed in one unit. This is the last link: its function is to raise the current and the entire signal to the level necessary for high-quality sound.

When choosing an AV-receiver, do not spare money and get a really high-quality device: it will convey all the nuances of high-quality sound.

Acoustic system

Columns They are considered a very important part of a home theater: they convey all the nuances of the soundtrack of any movie.Therefore, it is important to give the arrangement of all elements in the right place. To hear the conversation of the heroes of the film, the sounds of shooting, etc., a couple of ordinary stereo speakers are enough.

The audio system can be called a home cinema, if the quality of the audio stream is as close as possible to the level of a real cinema hall, even located in a small room.

Choose a class of audio system not lower than 5.1 or 7.1, where the first digit indicates the number of speakers, the second - the presence of a subwoofer, which is responsible for the quality of reproduction of low frequencies within 5–200 Hz and infrasound.

Only if available subwoofer You will hear all the nuances of sound effects. It is installed in a specific place, and the satellite satellites are distributed over the whole area depending on the purpose:

• frontal;
• lateral;
• located behind the viewers.

Manufacturers of speakers for home theaters offer a rather impressive range. If you wish, you can install the case speakers with different variants of sound emitters. The goal should be one: the viewer should not determine by ear where the sound is coming from, it should simply envelop it, reaching from the side, from above or from behind.This is what is called a properly installed DC equipment.

Display device

Ideally, of course, you must purchase projectR and a canvas screen, but it will do LCD TV with a large diagonal or flat wall plasma. The decisive factor will be the size of the room where the display will take place, and the size of the desired image. In the context of a modern city apartment, a flat-panel television located on the wall is appropriate.

Installation

Not everyone can assemble and install all the components of a cinema - this process consists of several stages. An untrained person will simply get lost in the abundance of wires and amplification blocks, and it will get confused where all available speakers from the speaker system should be installed.

Much depends on the cubic capacity of the room - to install an audio system with a whole mass of speakers in a small room with a large size is very difficult. To improve the acoustics, the presence in the room of many noise absorbing items from thick curtains to upholstered furniture. Experts will offer to make a small correction of the acoustic properties of the room. Believe me, all expenses for professionals will pay off with the highest sound quality.