Home theater system speaker placement question?

Your Own Home Movie Theater – Learn The Secrets Of Making Your Own Home Movie Theater Like The Rich And Well-known!

With the ebook you’ll learn :

- Why you should have your own home theater system.
- The evolution of the home theater system.
- All about home theater systems “in a box”.
- How to make an affordable home theater.
- A look at how to build your own home theater system.
- Fantastic high-tech home theater options.

And much more!

List Price: $ 2.99

Price:

I getting a samsung home entertaiment signal system, and i have a question about the 2 front speakers. How far apart from the tv should you house them? What’s the usual distance. The speakers from samsung are those cool tower ones. I have about 6″ on both sides to work with. Is that excellent enough to get the most of the speakers?

Answer by here17now36
There are many variables to consider such as: are the speakers magnetically shielded? (if not they could hurt your tv screen), how far will you be sitting from the tv?, etc. The best answer I can give you is to check out the site listed in sources. Lot of excellent information on home theatre setup.

Answer by ROBERT P
Depending on the size of the room your two front speakers should be as far away as possible from the TV. Try to keep them about 2 to3 feet away from the side walls if possible.Angle them towards you everywhere you sit and try to have the mid-range and tweeter drivers at ear level. This will give you a wide signal stage. Hope this has been helpful for you

Answer by Jefferson
Check out this link for some speaker placement diagrams and what not: http://www.whydoesmyhometheatersuck.com/speaker.html

Answer by Marc P
Depending on what your receiver is like, it may come with a callibration tool you can use to automatically adjust the speakers. For example, my sony receiever has a micorphone inbuilt into it, and emits a noise from each speaker which detects the distance of the speakers from the unit and adjusts each speakers volume and balance based on this information.

Not exactley a direct answer to your question, but hopefully it will help a bit with your conundrum.

Answer by Gedalneil
Six to Eight feet is standard. But in addition, if they are bass reflex speakers (hole in back for air flow), you should also keep them at least one foot away from the wall. Conduct experiment with the distance. Excellent overall signal resembles the feeling of one overall signal. The signal should “image”, or appear as if it is in the center of you instead of a right and left. Delight keep in mind there will be details of the music on the left and right at times and that the overall “imaging” effect has a lot to do with the quality of the electronics and speakers you are by.

Excellent luck, and delight in. I hope the system brings you a lot of happiness.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Living room


Image by naan
ほぼ完成

Deluxe Home Theater Recliner

Deluxe Home Theater Recliner. Our comfortable, full-size home theater chair has a built-in wireless system and 2.1 stereo signal for the ultimate home theater experience. Bring the cinema experience home with this sleek black and silver home theater chair. It s equipped with a 2.1-channel 915mHz wireless signal system that can transmit up to 65 feet away. So forget about those annoying cords simply position your chair for the best viewing angle. The integrated wireless system can also simultaneous

Price: $ 399.00

My House (from the right)


Image by Ben Reierson
LCD arm from Ergo In Demand (25-KCB-110B). I can position the monitor in my sight line no matter how I’m reclined and it doesn’t interfere with the signal system.
The speakers are Gallo Allusion 3s driven by a Bolder Cable modded Squeezebox 2 into a Modwright SWL 9.0 SE preamp feeding an EA modded Carver ZR1600 amplifier (plus the Gallo bass amp).
Acoustic treatments by GikAcoustics.com

*Edit – I went and integrated my music system into my home theater: www.flickr.com/photos/seraph/2890591211/

I have a normal 5.1 channel D.V.D player and home theater speaker system ,I wanted to buy Blue ray Player now Can I connect Blue Ray player with traditional 5.1 Home theater speaker system ,I am posting this question because I heard that there will be a HDMA out place pin for connecting to the Home theater speaker system , If there is no possibility of Above set up is there any adapter set up for connecting a BlueRay player with ancient model home theater system.
*HDMI

Answer by Alan
In small, the answer to your question is: “Yes, provided you buy a player with analog audio outs.”

To go from HDMI to analog, the adapters are ludicrously expensive. Don’t even bother looking at this time. Since you might as well just buy a new receiver rather than buy such a device.

In selecting a BD player, make sure it has surround analog outputs. Most of them have this, but some don’t. You can, for example, run analog RCA cables from the BD player to your receiver and the HDMI to your TV or monitor if it is so equipped. If your monitor or TV has no HDMI but does have DVI, you can also simply use an HDMI to DVI adapter cable. The DVI will not pass any audio, but that’s okay since the audio is going through the analog outs.

Since your surround system is grown-up, I take upon yourself it is only 5.1 while the new standard is 7.1. Don’t worry about this. 7.1 surround is 5.1 surround with extra information for decoding the surround channels into four instead of just two. When you buy a player with analog outs, just don’t bother to connect anything to the rear speaker outputs since if your receiver is 5.1, you won’t have anywhere to connect them anyway.

If your receiver does not have enough surround analog inputs to add another device, then you can get cheap switch boxes. Unfortunately, nobody makes analog switch boxes with enough connectors to accommodate surround signal. Though, since you will need six analog cables, you can get two 3-cable video switch boxes and use them in tandem for your 5.1 surround. If you are in north America, such switch boxes can be ordered cheaply from Amazon. I’m by a set of two switch boxes that allow five cables each, but I got them everywhere I live in Korea and have not been able to find an American supplier for such an item.

Answer by Signal Labs
Lots and lots of people with all-in-one DVD surround systems have found that they cannot integrate blu ray signal into their system. The issue here is really signal, not picture. Because you can connect a blu ray player straight to your TV, now the signal is the conundrum.

Most of these all-in-one systems didn’t include a digital audio INPUT. But some of them do. If your system has a optical digital input (the most common) or a coaxial digital input, then you are in business. You would simply connect the blu ray player to the TV with an HDMI cable. Then from the blu ray player digital audio output, let’s say the optical one would run from that to the surround signal system.

Then on the surround signal, simply choose that input and you’ve got surround. If your system only has standard left/right analog RCA jacks, you are out of luck, that does not support discrete surround signal in any form.

So no, there are no adapters to buy. If your system has no digital audio inputs, there is nothing you can do. This is why I never went for these types of system and instead opted for a standard surround signal system with receiver and separate components. When something new comes along, I slide the new gear in and the ancient one out. A real surround signal receiver is also more flexible and you can usually find a way to connect gear, even though it didn’t exist when the receiver was made.

Answer by BANG P
Connect optical cable from Blu-ray player to Home Theater System for surround signal.

Give your answer to this question below!