If you recently acquired a home theater system or a pair of speakers, you may require a number of recommendations on properly setting it up if you don’t want to contract an installer. I am going to outline the fundamental setup procedure and give some suggestions in order to help avoid some widespread problems. The following components are generally included in your home theater system: five to seven satellite speakers, woofer plus a central element. This component is also called surround receiver and acts as the main control of your home theater system.
Place this receiver in a place that minimizes the loudspeaker cord run to every loudspeaker. Just be sure it is in a dry and secure location. In addition, be sure that you can easily reach the receiver from your television set or DVD/Blue-ray player as you will need to connect these. It is not too complex to make the connections between your receiver and TV or Blue-ray player by using a fiberoptical cord. This cord might not be included with your system but it is available at any electronics store. However, setting up your loudspeakers might be a bit more tricky. You won’t require as much speaker wire if your speakers are wireless. Some packages include all-portable outdoor speakers as others only have cordless rear speakers. For all other loudspeakers, start by measuring how much speaker cable you require. Be sure to add some extra cord to take into account those bends and corners. Select the gauge of the loudspeaker cord depending on how much output power you plan to drive your speakers with. The larger the wattage the thicker the loudspeaker cable. Your subwoofer is going to normally have a built-in amplifier and attach to your receiver by RCA cable. While attaching the speaker cord, be certain that you attach the cord with the accurate polarity. Each speaker offers a color-coded terminal, generally red and black. Most loudspeaker cable is going to show one strand in a different color. This is essential since it will help ensure the correct polarity of the loudspeaker terminal connection. Simply connect the different-color strand to the speaker terminal that is colored. In the same way, every loudspeaker output of your surround receiver is color coded. When connecting the cable to your receiver, watch the correct polarity again. This will keep all of your speakers in phase.
Cordless loudspeakers normally need to do some amount of audio buffering throughout the transmission in order to deal with wireless interference. This results in a brief delay whilst the signal is broadcast. This delay is also referred to as latency and should be taken into consideration during your setup. Generally the latency ranges between one and twenty ms. For best effect, it is optimum if all of the loudspeakers are in sync. If you have a kit which uses wireless rears and wired front speakers, i.e. you have a mixture of wireless and wired loudspeakers, you should attempt to delay the audio going to the wired speakers by the latency of the cordless loudspeakers. Verify with the maker if your surround receiver can be set to delay the audio of specific channels. If you are using cordless rears, you want to set the front-speaker and side-speaker channels to delay the signal. Home theater systems which were not intended for wireless rear speakers might not come with this ability. In this case you may wish to look for a wireless speaker kit which has very low latency, ideally less than one ms. This will keep all of your loudspeakers in perfect sync.
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