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How Home Theater Works
Home Theater allows you to experience all of the
excitement of a good movie theater, right in your own home. A properly setup
Home Theater will create a 360° soundfield placing you right in the center of
the action. A Home Theater isn't just for movies. Most TV programs are now
broadcast in Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro-Logic so their
soundtracks are just as engaging as modern film soundtracks.
Required Equipment:
A Signal Source:
- DVD, Cable, Satellite Dish, Digital antenna, Hi-Fi VHS
A Home Theater Amplifier / Receiver:
- There are many available Home Theater receivers. Currently
the most prevalent configuration is known as "5.1" (5 speakers, 1 subwoofer)
but "7.1" systems are becoming increasingly popular.
Speakers:
- 1 pair of Main Channel speakers (Front Left & Right)
- 1 Center Channel speaker (Front Center)
- 1 pair of Surround speakers (Rear Left & Right) - or 2 pair for a 7.1 Home
Theater system!
- 1 Powered Subwoofer
Our Main (left & right) speakers create the wide audio image to blend
with the visual panorama. They enable the audio to move to the left and right
with the image on the screen creating a broad, full 2-dimensional soundstage.
The purpose of our Center Channel speakers is to literally 'center the
voices' at the TV screen. Our multiple driver configurations allow for very high
volume levels with very low distortion. More importantly, the multiple driver
configuration creates a broad horizontal dispersion pattern. The larger a TV
screen becomes, the important it is that the sound appears to come from the
entire screen. A small speaker on top of a big screen can create an easily
discernible "point source" which is distinguishable as being different
in scale than that of the picture. A broader soundfield blends more
realistically with a larger screen.
Our Surround
speakers produce the ambient information to envelop you creating the 'you are
there' sensation. Ambient information generally includes reflections,
reverberations and echoes that your ears use to differentiate one environment
from another (small room, stadium, outdoors, etc.). This additional reverberant
information is the key in creating a full 3-dimensional auditory environment.
Our Powered Subwoofers fill in the bottom octaves making everything from
music and effects to explosions as realistic as if you were there. Many
Home Theater listeners prefer the stereo effect of two subwoofers.
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