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Slide 6: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Contents Are You Ready For Surround Sound? ...................................................................................................... 7 Basic Components For A Home Theater .................................................................................................. 9 Building A Great Home Theatre............................................................................................................... 11 Building A Home Theater On A Budget .................................................................................................. 13 Box Kit Home Theaters............................................................................................................................. 15 DIY Surround Sound................................................................................................................................. 17 Give Your Children The Gift Of A Surround Sound Media Center ....................................................... 20 Pieces Parts Components And Sound ................................................................................................... 22 Professional Installation Or Sweat Equity?............................................................................................ 24 Saving Money On Your Surround Sound System ................................................................................. 26 Selecting The Right Speakers.................................................................................................................. 28 Surround Sound Possibilities.................................................................................................................. 31 The Great Installation Debate .................................................................................................................. 33 Why Surround Sound? ............................................................................................................................. 35 Home Theater- Make It Worth Even With A Small Budget!................................................................... 37 Do Not Make Hasty Decisions While Buying A Home Theatre!............................................................ 39 Home Theater- Bring Movie Theaters Home! ......................................................................................... 41 Home Theater For Small Spaces ............................................................................................................. 43 Get The Most Useful Tips From Home Theater Magazines .................................................................. 45 Planning For A Home Theater ................................................................................................................. 47 Home Theaters- Use Projectors To Get Movie-Theater-Like Feel........................................................ 49 Complete Your Home Theater Setup With Home Theater Seating ...................................................... 51 Home Theater Speaker Basics ................................................................................................................ 53 Proper Seating Key To Home Theater Enjoyment ................................................................................. 55 Setting Up A Surround Sound System, Even On A Tight Budget........................................................ 57 Space Saving Surround Sound Solutions.............................................................................................. 59 Speaker Quality Speaks Volumes ........................................................................................................... 61 Surround Sound For Meager Budgets.................................................................................................... 63 Home Theater Systems For The Kids- Not A Bad Idea! ........................................................................ 65 © Wings Of Success Page 6 of 68
Slide 7: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Are You Ready For Surround Sound? Would you like to have surround sound in your homes? Watching movie in a theater might be enjoyable, but may be costly. And the experience might also be irritating, if the crowd that you are sitting with is unruly and boisterous. When you go to a theatre you spend quite a good amount of money, to relax, and to be at peace. But, the whole fun is spoiled when people sitting behind talks or their mobile phone starts ringing. To my mind, when one goes to a cinema either the cell phone must be switched off or put on silent mode or, one should better watch the movies when it is available on cassette. Why there should be a surround system in the house? Thanks to surround sound technology, today people prefer to watch cinema at home without leaving the comforts of the house, and completely at peace with oneself. Instead of wasting their precious time and hard earned money by going to a theater, people turn their homes into theater. Surround sound serves two purposes, it makes movie watching a happier experience and if you are not an avid movie watcher, it amplifies the experience of watching television. How to make your home a theatre? Making surround sound is not that expensive. It can be started in a small way and as money comes you can update it. Always go for a few expensive, branded, speakers than go for too many inexpensive, local products. If you maintain quality from the beginning, you will be happier in the long run. On the other hand, if you are not so keen to go meticulously into every detail of purchasing the product you can buy a kit from the electronic department of superstores like Wal-Mart or Target. How to buy the product? © Wings Of Success Page 7 of 68
Slide 8: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre When you go to shop for a surround sound kit, take some time to look around at every available brand before you make the final deal. In some leading electronic shops, the surround sound is installed for you to try out the gadget and have a feel before you make up your mind on which one suits your purpose. Otherwise, you may buy a cheap kit, when you can afford a costlier one. So, before you actually set out to purchase, it is advisable to check your spending capacity. Haste makes waste, so, while buying a surround sound, spend judiciously even if you have lot of money. Where to get the know-how about of the surround sound? There is every chance that you will like the first kit that you bump into. But hurry causes worry; take your own time to make the purchase. Buy at leisure giving more time before taking the decision. You can do some ground research before doing the shopping. Remember, it is an electronic good which is purchased for a life time and not a Fast moving consumable good. Expert opinion is very important. In today's world you can get a whole lot of information on surround sound from the internet. Besides, you can even make a purchase from online Shoppe's. Or, if you are very particular about having a feel of the product before buying it, you can note down the price which is quoted on the internet (if it is lower than in the shop) and bargain with the shop keeper. By putting an extra bit of effort and time, you might land up with something which is way beyond your wildest dreams. Money should not be the limiting factor when you make such a valuable purchase. First, get hold of the surround sound system of your dreams and then find the means to fulfill your dreams. © Wings Of Success Page 8 of 68
Slide 9: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Basic Components For A Home Theater A lot of people shy away form the idea of buying a home theater because while purchasing the components they are unable to decide on the right product. Most people are in doubt about the different parts of a Home theater or they are not sure about what components are required to make an electrifying and effective home theatre. Because of these reasons people either do not waster their time looking into the various varieties and version of this fantastic product or altogether they give up the idea of purchasing a Home Theatre. You may belong to this confused lot who are not competent in selecting the individual parts of a home theatre, because you are unaware of the parts and their operations. It is hoped that by the time you complete reading this article, you would have better comprehensions about the components. The most basic thing is that there are different grades of Home Theaters. The components that are mentioned in the following paragraphs are the most basic ones, which give brilliant performance. However, they are not the only components that go into the making of a home theater. Television When you put up a home Theater for your family, the most fundamental thing that you need is Television. It might sound like I am going too much into the basics, but you know until now I have not found a Home theater which includes a Television. This is largely because, the most personal decision that one has to make while choosing a Home Theater is the type and size of the screen. Chiefly, there are three types of televisions available in the market today: The front projector, the rear projector and the plasma. And, within each type there are various models with small differences in the make and ranged between fairly priced to very expensive. Most owner's of a Home Theater spend a great amount of their time making this crucial decision, and eventually this decision influences the choice of other components which effects features like clarity, sharpness, distinctness etc. © Wings Of Success Page 9 of 68
Slide 10: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Receiver Another principal component is the receiver. Probably, you have some kind of recorders or DVD players as an essential constituent of the system. You might also have a Tivo, a cable box, a satellite and mostly some kind of speakers for the system. All these devices are plugged into a receiver- to put it in simple words, the receiver can be said to be the coordinator which regulates the devices. I would advice that you spend the best part of your budget on this principal Home theater component. Speaker Sound flows through the speaker. I think one of the most important advantage of a home theater is that you virtually get a theater effect at you home, where you can do things you are not able to do in a theater (like lying under a blanket or sitting with feet's up on your couch). There are different types of speakers available. For some buying a speaker is a very personal affair while others are ready to buy anything available in the market. To make it easier to select, the speaker can also be purchase as part of the kit. Recorder/DVD player To end with, you have to decide on a recorder or DVD player. If you are very particular about clarity, there are a variety of choices. If the most modern high performing DVD is not compatible with your television, you can go for a cheaper, old version of the DVD player, till you come across an advanced version. The above mentioned devices are wonderful to begin with. Later, you can build on it using the most modern products. Keep on upgrading the product and enjoy the state-of-the-art theater effect without leaving the comforts of your home. © Wings Of Success Page 10 of 68
Slide 11: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Building A Great Home Theatre You can easily spend a fortune on creating a home theatre of your choice and you might be very contented with your investment, provided your family watches the homes theatre very often. On the other hand, you can also build an excellent set at a cheaper rate provided you are ready to spare some time and put in some effort to explore the market and surf on the web to get hold of the appropriate product at an appropriate price. Ultimately, the key factor that influences the building of any type of home theatre is the availability of resources. Frankly speaking, majority of us can spend only up to ten thousand dollars to make a home theatre of our desire. A large number of us have to cut down the expenses and save so that we can spend a few thousand dollars on our dream home theatre. But, surprisingly, you can get an excellent home theatre of your choice with a couple of thousands of dollar, provided you do a market study about the components and the price and spend the money judiciously on the gadget. It is advisable that you build a home theatre over a period of time, by buying one part at a time. By building up your system slowly but constantly you can spend your budget in installments. This helps you spend more time to garner the monetary fund that is needed to buy the best component available for your system. On the other hand, if you make a hasty purchase you will either end up buying everything or buying nothing. Remember, when you buy the parts separately be caution, because each part should be in tune with the system. Especially, this is true about the speakers, so I would strongly recommend that you buy the speaker with the set itself. The first purchase that you should make is that of the television, because it is the most central factor around which revolves the functions of other components. Nowadays, television with high definition is becoming quite prevalent, and their performance is much better compared to that of the common varieties that are available in the market today. If your funds allow then I would advise you to buy this high quality televisions. And, when you have made this key purchase you can start hunting for the other components to build up your system. © Wings Of Success Page 11 of 68
Slide 12: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Your second purchase, I would suggest should be an amplifier or a receiver. It is the one unifying piece that coordinates the functions of all the components. It is practically unthinkable to have a home theatre without a first-rate receiver. The receiver functions as a director and controller of the sounds and pictures on the home theatre. You should spend lavishly on an amplifier because this is the most essential part which gives the theatre effect to the system. Another inescapable component is the speaker. The effective sound system is one of the most attractive experiences in a theatre. Without an excellent speaker you cannot completely enjoy the theatre effect at home. A superb sound system will guarantee you the 'movie quality' sound that is so important for an excited movie goer, at the same you will become the talk of the neighborhood, envied for owning such an excellent surround sound system. I would suggest that you buy speakers as a set so that they go well together with one another. And at last, you purchase comes to an end with a DVD player. It is left to you to decide whether you need a high quality DVD player or a cheaper one. Preferably, you should go for high definition disks only if you have a high resolution Television. Buy a high quality disk player only when your set is upgraded with the latest technology, so that your surround sound system goes in tune with the costly DVD player. The advantage of buying the parts separately is that you can keep on upgrading the system so that you can always own the most high-tech home theatre available in the market. © Wings Of Success Page 12 of 68
Slide 13: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Building A Home Theater On A Budget Americans are television buffs, be it watching movie related programs on television or renting out movies from many internet movie rental companies. If not, we will be watching reality shows on television. In short, we are obsessed with entertainment. I think, it is quite rational that we spend a good amount of money on our home theatre. Since, we spend most of our time before television we should buy the finest home theatre system. It is human psychology that one's preference differs from that of the other. This has lead to the availability of wide range of electronic good which cater to the tastes of different people and it has also lead to a healthy competition in the entertainment industry. This is refreshing news for those who are living on a shoestring budget. As the latest technological products arrive in the market there is a proportionate decrease in demand of the products already available. The trick of the trade is that you should buy an older version so that you save a lot of money on your home theatre. If you are not keen to go along with the advanced technology, believe me I can tell you that the technological advancement in home theatre is not going at such a fast pace. You can purchase the home theatre on eBay or through local newspapers by spending just a portion of the budget you have kept aside to buy the latest edition from the market. If you have a shortage of money or if you are very careful about how much a home theatre, you can go for used home theatre sales, where also you will come across some excellent choices. But sometimes, you are like many others who have an aversion toward buying second hand goods (however, I consider this as one of best option available). The most widely held reason is that you do not get a warranty; well, if you are also of the same mind set I better suggest that you do not make a hand-me-down purchase. Even if you do not pick up this option you have many other options to go ahead with. The option that I love the most is to build one's own Home Theatre system over a period of time. If you meticulously plan and buy every component, in the long run you will be astounded when you discover that you are the proud owners of one of the exclusive set available in the whole world. © Wings Of Success Page 13 of 68
Slide 14: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Life is full of choices and when it comes to home theatres there is no end to choices on the right kind of components, according to your preferences. Even though we have budget limitations, we still love the idea of having Bose speakers or Dolby surround sound. The good thing about appreciating all the good things in the world, is that when you around and check the products and make up your mind on your likes and dislikes, you are unconsciously becoming a wellinformed customer. When you go shopping for a home theatre you can compare and bargain. Make a note of the components in different shops and bargain, see if they offer you some free gift to compete with the other shops. Keep it in mind that it needs expertise and equipment to install a home theatre, You might have to hire someone to do that. I think if a shop keeper offers you free installation that should be given due consideration. Finally, the aim is to acquire the best possible home theatre system for the money you spend. After having learned so much about the different options available, by the time you leave the shop you will have a fair idea about how good your deal was. There is nothing like the knowledge that you gain about every aspect of a home theatre and also we buy a component we can find out are really getting value for money. Moreover, you will realize how much you have to pay when you buy branded products. You can cash in on up-coming companies, where you will be getting introductory offers. But to make use of all these, you have to equip yourself with a first hand knowledge of the company before spending your life's savings. © Wings Of Success Page 14 of 68
Slide 15: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Box Kit Home Theaters Ours is a world in which convenience has increasingly grown in demand. It is for this very reason that many buyers of home theater systems expect some level of convenience when they go shopping for a home theater system. This goes on despite the fact that there exist many types of consumers the world over and even in matters of supply and demand, nothing has emerged that wholly and fully fits all society. People want things that are similar for one reason or the other yet they insist on autonomy and large options to be availed for their tastes. The needs of a modern society which insists on convenience of making purchase has skyrocketed to a level that packaged goods have become the norm, be it prepackaged dinner packs to already packaged home theatre systems. There is no doubt that these prepackaged theatre home systems offer a big deal of ease to consumers. These benefits include the ability to get the price of the whole system prior to purchase. This is only a small level of benefits that come in comparison to the full benefits those buyers of these home theatre systems experience. Attunement Buyers of these already packaged home theater systems are well informed that all related components to these systems will harmoniously work together. They don't have to worry about proprietary issues, these systems components are designed in a way that doesn't create conflicts with the others parts but ideally complements them for highest quality and high efficiency. Cost Most of these prepackaged systems cost less than buying separate components. For most consumers, this is one major reason for purchasing a box kit. This is of course to the convenience of realizing the cost of the entire package beforehand. There are many parts and components in the market and you are able to find them all in separate price range, it can be a little bit confusing when comparing prices due to the difficulty of grasping the many quality details and simply by evaluating boxes. © Wings Of Success Page 15 of 68
Slide 16: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Know-how These prepackaged box kits allow you to hear and see them in action when consolidated. This gives you the consumer a good chance of witnessing the overall performance of the system as compared to listening to a hodgepodge of separate pieces and parts while speculating how they really work individually. A lot can be said about having the capability to try and see something working before you buy it. These prepackaged systems allow you to do just that. Set up For the majority of consumers this is one big reason to go for a prepackaged kit as opposed to a big system with separate component-ease of mounting. Majority of these prepackaged home theater systems are quite easy to install. This eliminates the needs for expert installation and saves you a great deal of hassle on the set up process. One major drawback of these prepackaged systems though, is the inability to upgrade them once purchased and you may have to go for a different type of system. this mostly leaves true enthusiasts feel a bit letdown by the quality of sounds from such systems. If you however have restricted space and are limited on funds, these prepackaged systems are an ideal place to start when considering home theater purchase. you can later give to your children if you decide to upgrade at a later stage. © Wings Of Success Page 16 of 68
Slide 17: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre DIY Surround Sound 1. The main surround sound format is known as five-point-one. The numbers in the name refer to the number of speakers the format can use. So five-point-one uses five discrete full-range audio channels--three speakers at the front, which are stereo left and right, plus a centerchannel mono and two surround sound speakers at the side or rear of the listener. The "point-one" in five-point-one refers to the sixth, low-frequency effects channel, which carries bass sound to the woofer or subwoofer. 2. For home theater surround, there's new refinement to five-point-one, called seven-point-one. This format adds two more speakers, which allow for two surround speakers to be placed behind the seating area, and the other two to the sides of the listening position. If a DVD movie is mixed in seven-point-one surround sound, there will be seven separate channels of audio. But since most DVDs and other content are currently mixed in five-point-one surround, often those two extra speakers will be duplicating the same audio you'd hear with five speakers. After you choose between five-point-one and seven-point-one sound surround system, it's time to buy your speakers. Here are some basic rules-of-thumb to follow when selecting the speakers: * The first rule is to get five (figure A) sound surround system, or seven, timbre-matched speakers. Although timbre matching is quite technical, it simply means that each of your speakers will produce similar sounds. Note: You want to match the speakers all around the room so the sound is seamless. A small center channel speaker from one manufacturer and large floor standing speakers from a different manufacturer isn't your best bet, even though this setup is found in most homes. * For most people with a medium-size living room or den, 12" to 15" tall bookshelf speakers make a lot of sense. They're a convenient size that won't overwhelm a room and can be found © Wings Of Success Page 17 of 68
Slide 18: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre in almost every price range. Typically, bookshelf speakers don't bring a lot of bass, but that's okay because the subwoofer will handle those low frequencies. * Only if you have a dedicated home-theater space or large multi-purpose room should you consider speakers of the large variety--38" and up (figure B). Although the best of the speakers in this range do sound great, and can be loud, it's really overkill for most rooms. * The subwoofer is also an important part of the overall surround-sound system. It delivers all of the deep bass impact on DVDs--as well as music. Most mid-priced systems, though, come with a woofer--a small driver in a small cabinet with a small amplifier. This is fine for music, but you're not really going to hear the deep bass on DVDs. To hear them, you've got to pony up for a real subwoofer with a bigger woofer driver, bigger amplifier and a bigger cabinet hand is on the subwoofer), which all add up to one thing--deep, deep bass. Go ahead and get the biggest and most powerful subwoofer your budget will allow. This bass boost will make any size satellite speakers sound bigger and better. * Some consumers get caught up in power ratings--or "wattage"--when buying speakers, but in reality those numbers are just an advisory from the manufacturer. You don't have to match a 100-watt amp with speakers rated at 100 watts, but use these ratings as a guide for choosing speakers that fall at or above your amp's wattage. * When shopping for speakers, one of the big mistakes most people make is listening to unfamiliar program material -- usually a demo CD or DVD the store may have on hand. Unless you're familiar with the program material, there's no way of knowing whether a speaker system is really to your liking. It’s recommended that you bring your own CDs or DVDs. If you listen to familiar sounds, one speaker system is going to stand out over the other. * Every home theater and speakers come complete with cables, but its recommends that if you're spending serious money anyway, consider getting after-market cables. You'll see better video, you'll hear better audio and the cables will last longer without problems. There are a lot of inflated claims about the performance of some cables, with price tags to match. But you don't have to pay thousands of dollars for overly-thick cables. A good rule-of-thumb is to spend about 10 to 15 percent of the cost of your overall home-entertainment system. One thing to look for-- © Wings Of Success Page 18 of 68
Slide 19: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre gold-plated connectors. Unlike nickel or tin-plated connectors, gold won't corrode--and corrosion causes distortion. Always keep the above in mind when you decide to purchase and install a home theater system. © Wings Of Success Page 19 of 68
Slide 20: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Give Your Children The Gift Of A Surround Sound Media Center These moments happen most times, imagine you are seated in your in the seating room watching your favorite game when suddenly you get interrupted by your preteen son Nichol as he walks up with a gadget in the left hand that turns out to be the hottest and greatest version of the children's DVD, and shoots you a look that speaks for itself. It obvious what your next plans are. You will have to forfeit another Sunday game at the expense of your son, who will be having an easy time in front of the Tube watching his unicorns, rainbows and fairies. It probably may be the right time that you get your child a surround sound media centre of his own. This will of course ensure that you watch those big sports you fancy with great peace of mind and minimal interruption, hence happiness for every one. If you consider it seriously, purchasing a children's home theater is indeed a great idea. This will free your TV and give you enough time to watch anything you fancy other than the children videos. Getting your children a sound surround gift is surely one way to endear yourself to them because it will help them for many years to come. One advantage is that they will by no means outgrow it and will always appreciate for being able to their videos at their chosen time. A second home theatre gives you numerous advantages other than just having a single control over the main TV set. This goes best if you are a family with more than one child, because the surround sound entertainment system will teach them how to share the system by taking turns in using the home theatre system. You also reap the added benefit of having the ability to control the channel they view hence block channels you deem inappropriate. On the other side you can unblock your TV and view any channels you with to view. Another great advantage is the home theatre system for children which allows them to invite friends over , their congregation is therefore always from the Television front. When you decide to purchase a surround sound theatre for your children, it's good to let them know that it is their responsibility to take good control of the system. Inform them that they won't be able to use your system if they break down their home theaters system due to misuse. This will ensure that the peanut butter and the home theatre system are kept separate. © Wings Of Success Page 20 of 68
Slide 21: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre If you have reservations about other peoples opinion of you giving your kids surround sound home theater system, then you really shouldn't have second thoughts, if your closest buddies think you are becoming more overgenerous and maybe even spoiling your kids, just ask them if they got to watch the big game last night. © Wings Of Success Page 21 of 68
Slide 22: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Pieces Parts Components And Sound It also includes Speakers--including a subwoofer--and a source (DVD, laserdisc, VHS). Definitely the cause of much financial difficulty, but for many people it's worth it to be able to blast your neighbors. The sound in a home theater system is as important as the big screen TV. A good stereo TV sitting all by itself sounds better than a bad home theater system install. Boomy (or nonexistent) bass, no audio detail, and/or muddy, inaudible dialog can make a movie unwatchable. When planning a home theater, remember that the physical geometry of the room is as important as the equipment in the system. Poor room acoustics can cause soundstage and bass-response problems that will significantly detract from the viewing experience. With a few exceptions, one usually can't control the shape of the room available to use. An irregularlyshaped room can be compensated for by creating a "theater zone" within the living space. The key is to create a sound field that centers on the viewers' seating area. A system sounds best when there are few or no echoes. A standing wave is created when a sound wave's echoes reinforce themselves, amplifying a specific tone. Another nuisance is when an item in the room starts to resonate to a specific wavelength(s) in the sound from the speakers. This can be dealt with by adding damping items or rearranging things like moving the couch, adding drapes and/or rugs. A hard-core audiophile can even buy damping panels and vertical tube-shaped corner treatments to damp echoes. The Gear You need to match the sound to the image, so one does not overwhelm the other. Speaker laminates, grill covers, and other cosmetic considerations should be dealt with at this time. How much speaker wire are you going to need, and what kind? If you are going to run cables under the rug, you need flat cables made for such use, as regular wire will not only cause ugly bulges, but also may cause a trip and fall hazard and eventually wear through in spots and create short circuits. © Wings Of Success Page 22 of 68
Slide 23: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Speakers A home theater requires at least five speakers: Front left, front right, and center (placed directly over or under the screen), in the back, left and right rear, and in a corner, a subwoofer. This layout is also known as a 5.1 system. Whether you use full-range speakers for your front channels or not, the subwoofer is needed because movies have deep bass tones not normally found in music, especially for visceral effects like explosions. The center channel needs to go immediately above or below the TV screen, the front speakers need to be in the front corners of the listening area at roughly the same level as the center speaker, and the rear speakers need to be at the rear, preferably firing sideways towards the listening area. Bass can be adjusted by moving the sub into and out of the corner it is placed in. It doesn't matter much which corner you use, as the human ear cannot locate the source of low frequency sound to any great degree. Many speakers are sold in sets especially for home theater systems, but you can also pick out your own components. This applies mostly in cases where one already has front speakers and only wants to add to them. The important thing to remember is that a set of speakers sold together is designed to work together, with tonal quality and crossover points that match one another. If the speakers don't sound the same, it can cause jarring differences when audio effects travel from speaker to speaker. There are several types of surround sound. The most prevalent are Dolby Pro Logic (analog) and Dolby Digital (also called AC-3.) THX Cinema is a signal enhancement developed by Lucas Film that in addition to modifying the signal, mandates power minimums for each channel for proper sound reproduction. Simply hooking up an add-on surround speaker system to your basic TV/Stereo VCR/DVD can make a basic HTS. There are many such add-on systems out there, in varying levels of sophistication. Most add-on speaker systems intended for HTS upgrade have a built-in surround sound decoder in the subwoofer, which saves on hookup complexity and clutter. As far as the surround mode, most basic systems only decode Dolby Pro Logic, but that is more than enough for a basic setup. It's always wise to spend a little more on speakers, then sort other parts later. © Wings Of Success Page 23 of 68
Slide 24: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Professional Installation Or Sweat Equity? One of the top challenges that will surface after you finalize your purchase of a top of the range sound surround theatre system is whether to handle the set up work yourself or consulting the services of an expert. The answer to this question may relatively depend on the degree of sophistication of the system itself and your grasp of the physics and electronics involved. Many of the prepackaged tools on the market today are easy to set up and could be mounted fairly quickly ( by a few hours course ) even by laymen such as myself. If you are purchasing a big home theater or sound surround system that comes with very rigorous requirements in order to give you optimum performance equivalent to what you paid for it, then it just might be wise to invest in the services of a professional. REMEMBER that home theater kits come in all sizes, shapes, and price range. Being able to install a $600-30,000 tool kit doesn't mean that the home theatre going at a price in excess of that amount to lets say $20,000 is as an easy of matter to install (thought such a price might actually be for a selfinstalled system). the point here is that if you've spent a lot of money for a home theater or sound surround system you absolutely want to ensure that you are getting your dollars worth on the other end. Hiring a professional to do your installation is one way to ensure that you get the best. Set up is an expensive venture just as everything that bears a professional word at its front. One way of curtailing that charge is by shopping around and conducting some price comparison research, you may end up discovering that different retailers have different installation charges, one retailer could be expensive while another is very affordable and could even offer free installation once you make the purchase from him. If the installation price makes the difference between the two, then opt for it, it will help you save a lot of dollars in the process and also secure a professional installation. It also pays to find out whether self-installation may render some warranties null. This is a common occurrence in some occasions where you could end up risking your guarantee on a $20,000 sound surround speaker system in order to save a few hundred bucks on installation upfront. For my case, some risks aren't just worth taking, because a lot could go wrong by operating without a warranty. © Wings Of Success Page 24 of 68
Slide 25: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre You do not have to begin your home theater or surround sound experience with a top of the line piece of equipment. It is quite possible to start small with a surround sound system and build a better system as you go. In fact, I seriously recommend that people invest heavily in speakers from the beginning and sacrifice the number of speakers in favor of better quality speakers Though you may obtain a great deal of satisfaction by doing stuff on your own, this may sometimes prove to be an attempt in futility. If you can't avoid the urge to install the system yourself, then you ought to be extra cautious from the beginning and stick to every detail that comes with the instruction manual in order to obtain the best results possible. The major problem with many of us is that we mostly pretend to be tech-savvy enough, hence reading the accompanied user manual becomes unnecessary, until we become stuck in some point along the way. If you are among the many people world over who have joined the surround sound theatre system league and have found the installation process quite easy and straightforward and that you don't require expert knowledge to accomplish. Consider yourself a lucky lot. Very soon you will be enjoying theatre quality sound from your home theater surround system whether it's music you are listening to or movie or the newest game. Whether you go for expert installation or self installation, I wish you all the best in setting up your new sound surround system and happy listening. © Wings Of Success Page 25 of 68
Slide 26: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Saving Money On Your Surround Sound System It's common knowledge that when you make a trip to the local electronics shop to purchase some sort of gadget or any electronic equipment be it a PDA, notebook pc, or sound surround it's most likely out-of-date as you get it off the shelf. Don't be surprised to find out later that something hottest and sophisticated has already been developed to replace it. If you belong to the rare species of people that can live merrily without fussing over electronic gadgetry, then I bet, you must be saving a lot of cash with your frugal lifestyle. To the shoppers of sound surround system, the most challenging part they face is of having to choose which surround system among the many displayed is ideal for them and their budget. To simplify your search and save your head from a possible migraine that may strikes when you are stuck in the terrible valley of decision -AND mostly does, leave the house equipped with a couple of CDs when you go shopping for a surround system in your local electronics store. Most hyper marts and other stores of electronic goods usually have a dedicated place for display of sound surround system., this are purposely set up for you to try them. Insert your CDs in one of them and let it prove itself worth of your cash, do this in a number of them while noting your favorites. When the mission is over, you will be able to figure out the surround system for yourself and BELIEVE ME - you won't regret your decision. I know visiting the electronics store can be REAL fun. Trying out these surround systems in the store prior to purchase will offer you the best opportunity to decide on what elements and features you want in a surround sound system. You must have discovered from experience that the more a system is loaded with features, the higher the price it commands, so, you can save plenty of dollars by deciding what features you need and what you can do without. Don't pay more for a system just because it's loaded with features, some of which may be for aesthetic purposes than functionality. Be a smart shopper. Noting down what features you want in a sound surround system, and also the systems you like, and then conducting comparison shopping will land you in a system that will both please you and also leave you with some spare change in your wallet. If you are connected to the internet, then that could be the fastest and easiest way to do it. You can try virtual window shopping in sites of well recognized electronic dealers on the wide world web, like Best Buy, © Wings Of Success Page 26 of 68
Slide 27: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Radio Shack or Circuit City and many more and do price comparison. It very possible to find an on-line reseller willing to give you much better price, just remember to do a background check of their reputation first. The safest way to do on-line shopping is by using pay pal, since you don't have to be worried of someone hacking into your bank account. Pay pal also makes it easy to dispute a charge, incase you are scammed. Don't just settle for the most expensive sound surround system that the market can offer, what truly matters in a system that you choose to buy is that is pleases you regardless of what someone else has. They latest technology hype isn't always a reliable yard stick in measuring quality of a system. latest techie can be loaded with bugs remember and could leave you very unhappy and a substantial amount of dollars down the drain, so be cautious always and do your survey first. © Wings Of Success Page 27 of 68
Slide 28: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Selecting The Right Speakers Almost all home theater systems and sound surround speakers include the following types: * Front left and right speakers * Center channel speaker * Surround speakers * Subwoofer These speakers work together to create the surround sound experience of a movie theater in your living room. While there are many brands and models that do a great job reproducing sound, you will want to be sure that the various speakers in your home theater system work well together as a cohesive unit. Check out what each speaker's job is, and some of the things to consider before buying. These speakers work to deliver spectacular directional effects, like a locomotive rushing by, or a bullet zinging past. They really help put you smack dab in the center of the action. Although a 5.1-channel surround sound system, with only one pair of surround sound speakers, is the most common setup, most newer home theater receivers can power more than a single pair of surround speakers - and there are surround sound formats to match. Today, many people buy one or two additional speakers to use as "back surrounds" in a 6.1- or 7.1-channel system. The best Specifications to look for: * Speaker type. Ideally, your surround sound speakers should have the same performance capability as your front left and right speakers, but that's not always realistic when you consider room size and space. Most people use either bookshelf or satellite speakers (when the system also has a subwoofer) for their surrounds. Both bookshelf and satellite speakers may require stand placement or wall mounting. * Dipole/bipole capability. Some higher-end surround sound speakers offer a dipole/bipole switch (sometimes referred to as a "Solid/Diffuse" switch). These speakers feature two highfrequency drivers that either fire in phase (bipole) or out of phase (dipole). Dipole/bipole © Wings Of Success Page 28 of 68
Slide 29: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre speakers take advantage of reflected sound to create a wide sound field, and they provide greater speaker placement flexibility. * Placement. Correct surround sound speaker placement results in a very realistic threedimensional sound field; incorrect surround speaker placement can leave people asking, "Are our surrounds even on?" Check our speaker placement guide and consider where you'll put your surrounds and whether they'll need to be stand-mounted, wall-mounted, or even in-wall or in-ceiling models. * Voice-matching. Again, for the most realistic listening experience, it helps if your surround speakers are from the same "family" or series as your main and center channel speakers, and have similar tonal characteristics. Powered subwoofer If you are assembling a home theater, plan on including a powered subwoofer. Many Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks provide a dedicated channel of deep bass (sometimes known as low frequency effects, or LFE). This bass is what makes the entire soundtrack feel larger, fuller, and more lifelike - and gives special effects like thunder or explosions their window-rattling punch. Since most speakers can't deliver that level of bass on their own, a subwoofer is needed to ensure that your home theater system delivers crucial low-frequency impact. A subwoofer is also a wonderful way to enrich music listening - it can round out all types of music, from classical to jazz to rock to R&B. What to look for: * Power. If you have a large room (or if you just crave that serious bass content) then you should look for a sub with more watts in the built-in amp. Plus, as a general rule, the larger the driver, the deeper the bass - so go for a sub with a big 10" or 12" woofer cone (or a multi-woofer sub) for serious bass response. © Wings Of Success Page 29 of 68
Slide 30: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre * Placement. Low-frequency sound waves are omni-directional, so you have a great deal of flexibility when it comes to subwoofer placement. If you have a spot in your room picked out, consider the dimensions of the sub's cabinet to make sure it will fit. And remember that placing your sub near a wall, or, even better, in a corner, can increase bass impact noticeably. *Video-shielding. If you are planning to place your subwoofer anywhere near a tube TV, be certain to get a video-shielded sub. These above guides should help you decide what pair of sound surround speaker are good for your home theater system when you finally decide to join the big league of home theater owners. © Wings Of Success Page 30 of 68
Slide 31: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Surround Sound Possibilities You maybe wondering why a lot of people these days spent their hard earned dollars in the purchase of sound surround systems, equipments, and speakers, the reasons vary to many people, that may justify their investment in the somewhat expensive Sound Surround systems. Though, there exists no single sound surround system size, just as with any other thing in life that is fit for all. Your reasons for doing such an investment may not be because your neighbor the Jerries has one big surround systems that is causing tremors in the hood and you want to counter them. For the biggest part, the reasons are personal and specific. There are also a couple of reasons that motivate people to invest in sound surround systems and home theaters, and we are going to look into some of them in the course of the next paragraph. This may even provide an impetus for you to get a sound surround system of your own. Let me give you my own and very personal reasons first. While I was growing up my dad held a managerial job with a local cinema. That was a great opportunity for me and a privilege too, because I spent uncountable nights in the office watching movies from the cinemas projector room, this happens to be some of my most cherished childhood memories. I will live to remember the one rare opportunity I had to watch the movie " Return of the Jedi" just the night prior to it's public release in the projector room in the company of my dad and a few theater staff, but that was nothing in comparison to watching the movies in the auditorium. But what made the great difference here? Believe me it was the sound. Nothing much can be said about the sound quality inside the movie theater. And in the days gone by it simply wasn't reproducible at home. But due to fast technology growth over the last ten years, all that was a preserve of the ancient movie theaters is now available in our own homes and the price is quite reasonable. That is a reason sufficient for me to reminisce about my most cherished childhood memories. Another good reason for equipping your home with a sound surround system is not just about movie watching or the fun of large on-screen video game enjoyment. Whether you are gaming in the world of aliens or the other many amazing virtual worlds created specifically for on-line gaming fun, you will find sound surround as a valuable tool in keeping your character active and intact. These on-line games provide hints that place you in the centre of action with full © Wings Of Success Page 31 of 68
Slide 32: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre knowledge of what’s taking place within your vicinity if you heed the audible tips and hints that come together with the sound surround systems. If you find the above reasons insufficient to wear down your guard and convince you to make a visit over to the fantastic side of the entertainment chamber, then undoubtedly, the enrichment that sound surround gives to music will give you the motivation. Think about how good your music might sound in an enriched environment of sound surround, sound with tone wholesomely defined and smooth sounding to the ear. So much can be said about the difference that sound surround makes to music (best with some kinds of music than others) and never sufficient yet. If you love live recordings, try to imagine the ability to be part of a crowd as the tone of sounds of your presence fills the room. It's a wonderful effect to music. There are many reasons to get the wonders of sound surround working in your home. It's my hope that this piece of writing will help shed some light on the many ways that could enrich your multimedia enjoyment and also give you some tips for enlarging your present use of sound surround system. thanks for reading. © Wings Of Success Page 32 of 68
Slide 33: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre The Great Installation Debate It's a huge a question and it's looming large, especially among those home theatre lovers or any one who is contemplating the purchase one of those enormous home theater systems for their homes, AND the question is: Should I do a self installation or part with some bucks and call in a professional to handle the job ? This debate goes beyond the confines of the American borders and into the world. Consumers worldwide are grappling with similar questions and it might not be an easy question to answer as it seems. Self installation wholly depends on the consumer's confidence level and personal ability, and to many would be buyers, this maybe the reason as to why they keep postponing purchase of home theaters. For my household, this depends on who feels he/she needs the product most and who feels he is confident enough to handle the installation. I've discovered that when it comes to such equipments as home theaters, my man is a superstar at having the job done straight away. On my side I had to lag my laundry to the laundry mat for weeks while the laundry machine and dryer sat out in the basement in wait for him to mount them. I have no doubt that a person with my kind of mind and attitude wouldn't hesitate to pay for a professional installation for any equipment that requires quick installation. With installation of complicated equipments, timing is not the only factor to consider, like for a home theatre system. Knowledge is a major determining factor here as with most others components. Because if you dare do it yourself and end-up breaking something during the installation, that mat invalidate your warranty, especially if it maybe easy to prove that the item or component was broken by the user and is not factory defect. You may also not like getting down do the job yourself and then discover that something is missing, which may require that you take the whole component apart, box it up again and take it to the store. Time wasted is money wasted and you may not like the idea of redoing the whole installation afresh which may end up being even more frustrating and expensive. There are many things to put in mind when considering self -installation or professional installation, and one of them is the guarantee on your home theatre system and it's related components. Some warranties are nullified or rendered void if you don’t have your home theatre © Wings Of Success Page 33 of 68
Slide 34: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre system professionally installed. You therefore need to be sure if you are doing self-installation of your home theater that the process doesn't nullify your warranty on the product. Self installation also comes with benefits; first on the list is the bucks you will save by mastering the guts of doing the installation yourself. Professional service doesn't come cheap REMEMBER. It maybe quite costly and consumers of electronic goods don't consider that in their budgeting for a home theater system. For most, expert installation can be a real deal breaker in getting a home theatre of your dreams and also enjoying the best it can offer in terms of entertainment. The second reason that glorifies self installation of a home theater system yourself is the fact that you develop the confidence of taking it part if the situation ever requires like moving houses, or when you have to take it apart for maintenance and repair purposes. It also pays to know where what plugs into and doing the installation yourself will give you that advantage. At last is the sense of pride that only comes with knowing that you cracked the technical mystery and did it on your own. It gives you a sense of accomplishment that not every john or Jane is capable or even willing to do this task on their own, and that is remarkable and something to make you proud. So, whether you decide that your installation has to be done by a pro or not. I wish you all the best in your endeavor and hope you emerge victoriously. © Wings Of Success Page 34 of 68
Slide 35: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Why Surround Sound? You may be one among the many people across the globe that are still hooked to their old transistor radios or that hand me down ghetto-blaster from your granny, you are indeed a conservative and are still wondering what the ruckus is all about this new thing called a sound surround system. You are surprised about the many things being said about this sound surround systemania and the difference in can make to the TV watching experience. Does it ring a bell? The best response to that is that unless you are a mute and totally deaf, this surround thing can make a real positive impact to your movie viewing, gaming, and music experience. Nothing beats being at the center of some cool action, and believe me, sound surround, does exactly that. The Sound surround experience makes it possible for you to hear and even feel those eerie sounds a victim hears in your favorite horror films and even from the similar direction as the onscreen character. This means you are literally in the midst of the action together with the character. Your emotions will be evoked by the subwoofer in anticipation of the worst.( all this courtesy of the sound surround system) as in those edgy moments of horror. This indescribably shows you the ways that sound surround has revolutionalized movie watching. It never as it used to be anymore. I must admit that am a renowned knitter and novel reader when it comes to television watching or maybe movies, and I'm only jostled up from my preoccupation with the crotchet or book when something catches up my attention, be it a flash from the screen or a sound I heard. This definitely means that sound will mostly arouse my attention to the action taking place on the screen. I have recently noted my increased interest in movies and TV shows since I purchased sound surround system for my home theater. It's remarkable that scarves and other things take long to achieve and I lay the blame entirely on the incredible sound of my sound surround system. You may not be much of a TV enthusiast or even a movies goer for that matter, but if computer gaming is your thing then you may surely love what sound surround has to offer you. If you've already forgotten about that "BEING THE CENTER OF THE ACTION", this works magic in the game world and gives you essential hints and tips to whatever is happening around you. You'll © Wings Of Success Page 35 of 68
Slide 36: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre hear the villains or the other side attempt to creep up on you and know exactly where they may emerge from. You can also listen to the hoof beats at a distance or even a fire burning in barrels off to your left. You can listen to the Alien ships fly by as is you were standing next to them in the midst of it all. It adds excellent experience to the virtual reality of the game and is real fun. Music lovers on their side can feel as if they are seated right in front of the rock band or in the first row at a concert for your cherished orchestra. If you happen to be playing music that is live recorded, you will enjoy the feeling that comes from being in the center of the crowd minus smoke or the fumes that may detract you from having a good time. Regardless of your first love being music, video, games, or movies or whatever it is, be assured that sound surround has ways to make each of those experience real fun at the coziness of your own home. © Wings Of Success Page 36 of 68
Slide 37: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theater- Make It Worth Even With A Small Budget! When you decide to have a room, while you are constructing your house, exclusive for movie watching or a home theatre system, then you should be spending good money to decorate the room. In today’s market, there are various options or you when it comes to decorating a wall or a room. The prices of these decorations also are amazingly varied that anyone can afford it. As we all know art imitates life, but with these kinds of options for decoration available in the market you can imitate the awesome art we watch in the movies or television shows at home. Mind you, all this can be done at a peach of a price. A nice and a compact home theatre system is a worthy investment only when it is used in a neat private room. The decorations you will proceed to do shouldn’t be disturbing you anyway from movie-watching. There are lots of ways to do this and mostly the customers feel the price tag with which it comes is mammoth. If you decide to have special lighting, you need not go for the ones at $500 a piece as you have various options. In a good home improvement store you will find magnificent sconces in stores which have home theatre equipments. You will get all this at a fraction of the cost. You should keep in mind that the whole jazz is about watching the movie, so make your decorations neat as well as subdued. Buy inexpensive lightings or strings and sometimes even a Christmas tree light to use for decoration. Instead of hanging some expensive drapery on the walls of your home you can use textured paint in pretty dark colors so as to avoid any kind of glaring effect on the screen. You also might be tempted to use sound-proof materials but it is totally your say as to whether you need it or not. It can be quite useful if you live in a basement floor of an apartment and if you want to keep it hush from your family. As far as the floors are concerned, use dark carpets in most areas of your room. In basement floors, cork can be a good option for flooring as it absorbs the sound escaping from the room and also provides a resistance naturally to moisture based problems that often occur in basements. It is quite inexpensive but never really popular. Dark furnishing for the home theater at your place can be the best possible icing in the cake. Use colored sofas in your room if you want your family to enjoy some space together. Beanbags © Wings Of Success Page 37 of 68
Slide 38: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre and various other special seating can be apt for children. Children, this way, would not fight for seating as they will have their own places to sit and enjoy the movie. The point is not to spend a whopping amount on your home theater. Choose the best combination of things to make your home theatre interesting and enticing. I recommend plastic popcorn boxes and a few flameless tea light candles along the floor to add to the beauty of your theater. Try to be at your creative best to carve out the best possible home theater n your house. Let your imagination some room and make your home theatre splendid. © Wings Of Success Page 38 of 68
Slide 39: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Do Not Make Hasty Decisions While Buying A Home Theatre! The electronics and the family of components are totally varied in today’s world. There are numerous companies producing these items of different quality and prices. You will find yourself in a helpless situation if you decide to barge in the market to purchase electronic goods. These days even the private sector posts massive variances in quality and prices of these goods. This makes the situation even more complicated as you have so much to choose from. If you decide to purchase one system after all this, you should be prepared to carry a sound intensive movie in a CD when you approach any retail store for electronics to test it out. Best Buy need not always be the best possible place to purchase a good home theatre and a surround sound system. Try to widen your choices beyond the horizon to think of shops offering different configurations of systems. Make it a point to sit out a Saturday’s afternoon to browse through all the options in hand. When you do this, you automatically get the feel of the electronic goods, especially the surround sound systems. As your experience gets richer, you will make wiser decisions. You will start to shortlist what you want and this certainly will help you fix your eye on particular system. It is always good to make up your mind on a particular product to suit your style and going out to the market. Remember to test every component of the electronic system you buy. As you shortlist the systems of your interest, your mind then treads to the price tags of these. It is very typical of everyone to do this and one feels the internet is the best place to do it. The internet can be your ultimate source to view all the prices the companies tag and compare it with the ones you have chosen. The local stores might charge a little more for the same system compared to the online prices. If you can hassle your way through and reduce a little more from the local stores, it might prove to be very effective. Mind you, this works with only a few stores, not all. Even the larger chain stores sometimes don’t acknowledge the prices received online as competitive. It is worth a try if you decide to purchase it in a local store else it is best to do it online. Purchasing the best surround system for your home theater is no rocket science. You just have to be pleased with the quality of the products. If you had properly planned and stuck up with © Wings Of Success Page 39 of 68
Slide 40: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre what you wanted to buy for your home, then any sound coming from the system can be a delight. It wouldn’t matter if it was a good company or not, all that will matter is your satisfaction. So take ample time before you jump into a decision when it comes to electronic systems. Home theater and its sister components needs to be selected with a lot of insight, though interest precedes. So not regret your home theater after you have bought it. Feel satisfied for whatever it takes. Do not do things hastily. © Wings Of Success Page 40 of 68
Slide 41: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theater- Bring Movie Theaters Home! Watching a movie can be such a relaxing activity, especially after a hard day’s work. Even if you have to conquer the traffic to go and watch a movie, you will be up for it. The feel and the sound of the movie theaters attract all of us. We get quite engrossed in the movie that we even forget where we are sometimes. The scenes carry bigger-than-life pictures and the surround sound makes you feel delightful. But one has to realize that we cannot be doing this as is costly at the end of the day. Think of a home theater in your room, which would be a peach of an idea. You can replicate the idea of a theater at home to make your life just a little more exciting. Before you despise this idea, why don’t you think again? Watching a movie at the theater is an expensive affair and not many can afford it. In fact, if you know the right ingredients for a good home theater, it makes things far simpler. You might not be able to set-up a replica of a theater at home, unlike the rich, but certainly can afford something half as well as that. If you get to know the basic components of it, you can arrange it yourself on a meager budget. If you are determining to do it, you can even turn your den into a home theater. You might need just the three components to make up a decent home theater and watch movies with your family. You are certain to have a television set of about 27 inches at home. This basically is the first major component of the whole system. Half your worries might be solved in the first step. If you possess a DVD player, quite many do, it solves the second major issue as well. If the DVD player has a progressive scan that could be wonderful, though even without it, it might prove worthy. Speakers, being the third major component, could be quite an issue with many. You will have to purchase a few of those to complete the unfinished business. A left speaker, a right one and a centre could be needed to coup de grace a home theater system. When you are done with this, you will have a good time watching movies in your home theater. Owning your own home theater can be such a splendid feeling for anyone. You have the freedom to watch any number of movies at will lest you have a good collection of movies. A small room will be most conducive for the home theater system containing the three components. A bigger budget would have fit your bill if you had bigger rooms. Talking to experts on these, you will end up buying several more speakers just to enhance the quality of your © Wings Of Success Page 41 of 68
Slide 42: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre theater. A surround effect, one might fancy, can be achieved through subwoofers and extra speakers. The bigger the room and your interests, you tend to go for projectors. And if you have the money to spend, you will even venture on seating and television cabinets to add to your repertoire. This will indeed provide the complete package to what you can call a marvelous home theater. Mind you, this could be even remotely possible for only bigger rooms. Bigger the room, more you have to spend and the more you enjoy. Bigger rooms can be an asset to massive families. It is certainly studied that bringing home a theater at a cheaper rate to avoid expenses is a fabulous idea. The fact that you are able to enjoy the movies with your family and friends at home can be such a refreshing feeling. Take your chances with this fantastic opportunity and bring home some new life. © Wings Of Success Page 42 of 68
Slide 43: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theater For Small Spaces One of the constraints many people have is space or their home theater systems. The person might love home theaters and watching movies, but ends up sacrificing it thinking space is insufficient. But with the growth of smaller and compact home theater systems, this notion is on the verge of extinction. The ones who love to buy a home theater for their room need no longer feel they aren’t gifted with space. Space is a hot topic these days and it keeps growing as population keeps increasing. The emergence of apartment buildings, homes on compact lots, condos has made us feel the space is even more confined than usual. Families of people often feel the need for more space when they have bulky home theater systems and floor speakers. The most encouraging and fabulous news for them would be a home theater system that occupies minimal space. And now this can be achieved with the help of ceiling mounted projectors and the rear projector televisions which fit nicely in the corners of the walls. Wireless speakers replacing the usual ones with clustered wiring is also healthy news for the people. The plasma and LCD television which can be mounted on he walls are also acting to their convenience by saving them good space at their homes. Space can be no more an issue at any home now because of the improvement in the range of smaller electronic goods. Space was a mitigating factor earlier, but this thought is being eradicated. With the availability of boxed kits of home theaters, there cannot be complains of space at homes. Many find that this technological shift is a helping tool to save their worries for better things. A lot of people have started to feel that compact and satisfying home theaters substitute movie theaters effectively. For those people who have lost interest on home theaters and still sinking in their notion that it takes a lot of space should revamp their minds considering the technology of today. The compact systems available in the market are enticing to many around the world. It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment with very little space, you will still manage to enjoy watching movies. As a matter of fact, the smaller the space the better it works. Make sure you listen out everything and also voice your opinion while discussing issues of space with the dealer just before you buy them. It is safer and better to do it this way. © Wings Of Success Page 43 of 68
Slide 44: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre With the advancement in the systems nowadays, you will eventually find yourself saving a good amount of space replacing the old ones. A ceiling projector gives you the extra space once it installed by replacing the old and huge projector. The bulkier products can be replaced with slimmer ones to make your room wide and spacey. Space can never be question any longer as these compact home theaters allows you the extra freedom of movement. The fact that anything can spring up in the market anytime and also the fact that you will never know if the system suits you until you check them out. It is better to go and check them out individually than buying them blindfolded. Consider the facilities and the atmosphere of your room or house and buy the one which will be conducive at all cost. © Wings Of Success Page 44 of 68
Slide 45: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Get The Most Useful Tips From Home Theater Magazines Home theater magazines- Your best guide! Going to a movie theater can end you hard day at a high note. It can be the ultimate entertainment you might b searching for. However, this is not affordable on every single day of your life. If you can relate to such a situation, all you need to do is arrange a home theater system to make movie-watching a regular activity. It is often said that home theaters are for he rich and the popular. This could be partially true as it takes a lot of money as well as efforts to set up a home theater. The fact that should be well chewed in your head is that the expenses of watching a movie daily at the movie theater could mount to the same amount or more if you plan to have a home theater. The luxury of being at home is what you get ultimately. It surely can sometimes work out cheaper as well. Hence it is very practical to get a home theater, as it is a one time affair, rather spending loads of money on movie theaters. If your budget seems to have its problems, you can opt for a basic home theater system set-up and then upgrade it whenever you get the money. If you believe your home theater can provide you a good entertainment, you should be reading a lot of home theater magazines for useful tips. The experts in this arena give you useful tips in their columns so use them to fell effect. You can even posts questions at them as they can clear any doubts still lingering in your mind. You might find one article for sure that will help you greatly, indeed, from the pages and pages of the theater magazines you buy. Whether you are contemplating on buying a home theater system or already possessing one at home, the tips given by the experts finds great use. The in-depth analyses from them about the various surround systems or even the furniture for your home theater can be mighty helpful to you. The best part of these magazines is the pages of various home theater reviews. This will contain the latest update in the market, information on every new chip that peeks out in the market and every other home theater user’s reviews. Hence, subscription of these kinds of magazines can be very helpful to judge your home theater system with the other ones as well as to improve your system with the latest technology. Everything about the furniture and other © Wings Of Success Page 45 of 68
Slide 46: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre equipments needed for your theater might be mentioned. You are sure of choosing the best possible system if you are a regular subscriber of the magazines. Follow the recommendations of the experts and post them any question if doubtful. You can also choose the latest of the shows and movies to watch it at home in your system as such things are also provided in the magazines. Every product which pops out in the market is reviewed and all its advantages and disadvantages are analyzed to help users. The latest of the chips and models will be explicitly discussed. Finally and most importantly, these magazines give you valuable information on the best places to purchase home theater equipments and other related supplies. You can improve your system at home with the latest updates suggested by experts in the magazines. It is very certain that you will enjoy all the benefits provided in these magazines to help improve your home theater system. Read or subscribe the most entertaining magazine on home theater to keep you updated and vigil on the latest news in the industry. © Wings Of Success Page 46 of 68
Slide 47: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Planning For A Home Theater Gone are the days were shopping used to be just a good pastime. Shoppers of today are much savvier and enthusiastic than the people of the past. The sophistication of shopping these days is the result of the innumerable products available in the market which can be accessed with just a click away from the sources available in the internet. We spend the money earned with a lot of effort and pain in shopping. Whatever the reason might be, we try to learn as much as possible about all our investments and methodically plan our expenses before the money leaves our pockets. This is a wonderful piece of news in many ways. There is hardly any room for the customers to go wrong as there is enough education to be gained about the products in the market and this proves to be really true for electronic goods. Home theater systems are becoming famous and as the days pass more people are eager to acquire one. It is can be a massive advantage, which you might realize late, to know and research about your products before committing to it. The design of a home theater needs good time and effort dedicated to it. For example, you might have a room at home for this purpose in mind, but have you thought about the wiring you will need? Are the outlets in proper location to provide extra outlets if necessary? Do you possess extra wring if extra speakers come your way? Would you consider wireless speakers to evade this whole issue? These are only some of the questions that you will be asking yourself. But this ought to be done to plan your home theater pragmatically and prudently. There is always one question which has to be answered while you are planning. Which are the equipments of your system which you will be retaining and the ones you might be replacing later? I would recommend this for anyone who desires a new system at home. Buy one component at a time to build your home theater system than just buying a box off a shelf at one go which has everything. Though you may get a good system by buying it off the shelf, you attain satisfaction only by building it from scratch. You also have the luxury to choose the equipment based on its price and quality. However, you should know to install them at home one you have bought it. © Wings Of Success Page 47 of 68
Slide 48: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Would you prefer a big cozy couch over a normal seating for your home theater? These kinds of questions arise when you plan the layout of your room which contains the home theater system. If you do not make the seating comfortable, movie watching experience might be spoilt irrespective of all the facilities in the range of equipments you have. You can have a huge television screen, but you ought to have good seating to compliment that. Do you think you can provide that sort of a comfort in your theater? Why don’t you disguise all the lengthy wires coming out of your system to ensure peaceful and undisturbed movie watching? Use a reliable method to optimize this. Are you planning to add gaming equipments to your home theater system? If yes, you will surely have to find a solution to hide the extra wires to avoid any mix-up and also to make your room look neat and tidy. But how do you plan to disguise all the wires coming out of the equipments? Built-in entertainment centers though are available they can eat up a lot of space and can bring ingenuity to your home theater. For this reason alone, I would recommend a floor-to-ceiling center with doors which can be closed around features you are not using at that moment. There can be no right or wrong while designing the home theater of your kind to your family and friends, there are a few practicalities that you might need to consider. I hope this article has shone some light on the planning aspect of a home theater system. © Wings Of Success Page 48 of 68
Slide 49: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theaters- Use Projectors To Get Movie-Theater-Like Feel Entertainment through movies is always something the young professionals of today need as a recreational activity. Leading a stressful and hardworking life, they ought to have some sort of enjoyment besides mere work. For those who cannot afford the daily tickets to a movie theater or waste any time traveling to theaters can opt for home theaters. This system which can be fitted in a room can give you the right mix of entertainment after a long day’s work. You not only feel at home but also watch all the latest movies when you want to. If you can purchase the best equipments to attain a decent home theater system, you can save the time of travel and your money as well. Bring the sound and sight of movie theaters inside four walls of your room. It guarantees relaxation and a delightful experience while watching the movie. To capture real movie images and the feel of a movie theater you will need the basic components like the speakers and the big screen. A projector, though, is the crux of the whole system. However, the size of the place should be first considered before you decide on any equipment for your home theater. If your room is quite small, the television or the screen might be placed at the center and the speakers can occupy the rest of the room in right, left and center positions. This perhaps will be enough to give you the sound effects like in a movie theater. If you have the luxury for dedicating the home theater in a bigger room, a projector with a big screen can be used. A projector can provide you the real-life experience like a movie theater does. By having the right mix of the projector screen, the home theater projector and surround speakers, a good home theater system can be established. A subwoofer and other attachments related to speakers can give you the ultimate effect of a movie theater in your room. As far as the projectors for your home theater are concerned, there are so many different varieties available. It could be vital to understand the features of the projectors before you intend to buy them. Sometimes, the services of a home theater designer can be utilized in order to perfect your home theater. If this is utilized in the right way, you may well avoid unnecessary money on home theater systems including the projectors. Some will buy all the huge capacity equipments for their home theater as they would hardly know anything about the choices they have and what their home theater actually needs. A high capacity projector and a screen forms © Wings Of Success Page 49 of 68
Slide 50: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre the total set-up for a theater and this should be considered. A designer can also educate you about the use of computers and projectors as a build-up to your home theater. The technological innovation will not need the purchase of television sets for your system. InFocus screenplay modes help to achieve this with the computers. The projectors are very lightweight and the transportation of it is quite easy. This makes business presentations easy with home theater projectors. Home theater projector and screens provides the movie theater-type experience without any doubt. Even for the business presentations, this set-up can be most useful and hence it is gaining popularity. Though this is not something every home or office can afford and use, it has certainly showed the way for people who are desperately want to set-up a home theater with a television, DVD player and around three speakers in their room. Be clear with what you want for your home and use all your options to its maximum. Relish every moment of your movie watching by bringing home a good theater. Watch it in a relaxed manner with no haste at all. © Wings Of Success Page 50 of 68
Slide 51: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Complete Your Home Theater Setup With Home Theater Seating After a stirring day of work in your workplace, your mind might badly want some sort of relaxation. Movie Theater is where you would like to go and end the day. The sound and the very sight of the theater can keep you relaxed and comfortable. However, planning for a movie at the theater needs much more insight. There can be traffic jams that can annoy you and spoil your mood. So traffic jams not only bring irritation but also makes you think of alternatives to movie theaters. If you can bring home a theater-like system, you can enjoy watching movies with your family and friends. It certainly will help you forget your tiredness and keep you interested. This was precisely why the whole concept of home theaters was introduced. The demand for the home theaters is increasing every day and that is why you can find home theater furniture to suit your room and requirements. This concept has started to reach people left right and center yet slowly because of the economical needs of it. Even the middle-class families can now afford home theater systems at their place at an affordable and enticing price. This whole cauldron of home theaters are thus not only for the rich and famous. The middle-class society is slowly getting the hang of things when it comes to electronic goods, especially home theaters. They are educating themselves about the three basic components of the system as well as the designs and equipments available to enhance the system. For the old age, who prefer not to leave home, special home theater seating can be arranged so that they enjoy watching the movie. The seating available is of innumerable types and quality. There are seats with back support, reclining seats and other specially made ones for the old. For people desiring a home theater at their place would like to know the three basic components of home theater system. You might not need seating for your home theater if the room happens to be small, the three components will be sufficient to give you the wholesome entertainment. If your room seems to have a limited space, a recliner will do instead of big budget seating for a home theater. The three components form the basics of a home theater: Television set, mostly a 27inch or more preferred, three odd speakers on the left, right and center to enable the surround sound effect, a DVD player, preferably with the progressive scan that can help to give © Wings Of Success Page 51 of 68
Slide 52: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre sharp images and undisturbed pictures. Even without a seating for your hoe theater, these three components can enrich your experience of movie-watching. The whole point of establishing a home theater is to enjoy and feel relaxed while watching a movie. Watch your family sit in the home theater seating and enjoy it along with them. The kids are sure to like it and feel happy that you have made this possible for them. It doesn’t matter if you do not have a seating for small rooms. Suppose you have the luxury of a bigger room, make the seating comfortable thus ensuring a complete package of home theater experience. A television cabinet can be like an icing on the cake to your home theater. You can also go further and make your seating wood same as that of the television cabinet. The demand for more speakers arises when you have bigger rooms. For small rooms, the three speakers mentioned in the basic requirements will be more than good. If you wish to add on, try out subwoofers and other speakers in different positions to obtain the surround effect like in a movie theater. This will enhance your total movie watching experience as you have provided a complete package for your family. High-end seating is advised for people who want to relax cozily after a heavy day’s work at the office. Sit back and tranquilize the experience of a home theater. It can help you loosen up and simmer down your body. © Wings Of Success Page 52 of 68
Slide 53: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theater Speaker Basics Speakers make the most essential and important component of a home theater system. It is next to impossible to achieve a theater-like atmosphere if you do not have good speakers in your home theater. To enjoy the sound of the movies you watch, it is very vital you have a good range of speakers placed at the right spots. A surround sound effect cannot be created otherwise. Only with such a good surround sound that can you enjoy watching any movie. The speakers you will need to complete your home theater at your place are: front speakers on the right and left, a central channel speaker, subwoofers and speakers for the surround sound. In most of the home theaters, the central speaker is left out. It is recommended that centre speakers are of great importance as they provide a good portion of soundtracks in movies and also add depth and fullness to the dialogues spoken in the movie. The surround speakers give you the background effect as it plays all the background scores of a movie making it seem more realistic. Surround speakers are the ones which add more spice to the whole experience and work you a bit more by adding the excitement. They can further help to give you a theater-like feel while watching the movies. Common surround speakers available include: 5.1 channel, 6.1 and 7.1 channel sound. Subwoofers provide the ultimate effect of the deep bass sounds in the move soundtracks. It is responsible in providing the thrill to a movie watching experience as it explicitly sounds drama and emotion as well as suspense which are important while watching a movie. Subwoofers become a more compulsory accessory for your home theater or you might miss out on a few adrenaline pumps in the course of a movie. It enhances the whole atmosphere while watching the movie and makes you feel like you are in a movie theater. There is no doubt that the speakers available in the market is varied and diverse, but it is very important to choose the right set of speakers which you think will give you the right mix for your home theater. The optimum option is to buy a speaker kit which will have all the necessary speakers for a theater. It could be tempting to try out different combinations of speakers in your room but sometime this can act against you. © Wings Of Success Page 53 of 68
Slide 54: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Apart from the many brands of speakers available these days, the styles of the speakers may surprise you. Speakers that sit on bookshelves, floor speakers and satellite speakers are a few speakers which are gaining popularity. Although so many varieties are available, floor speakers are touted to do the best job of it all. But the disadvantage of these is its spacious requirements as it can take up a lot of a space in your room. Hence wireless speakers and other options seem to attract a little more attention. There can be no right or wrong as far as speakers are concerned. They definitely have a massive and immense impact on a home theater system. Without them it is just not possible to watch or enjoy movies. Speakers, though, vary with taste of people. Some prefer controlling the volume of the system and taking their own good time to watch the movie while some watch it for the feel of it. However, speakers create a good all-round effect and certainly make moviewatching a worthy experience. © Wings Of Success Page 54 of 68
Slide 55: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Proper Seating Key To Home Theater Enjoyment When you decide to purchase individual components and parts and build it up to a home theater, you should understand that there is lot more to it. We tend to forget a few things as our soul aim is to just get a home theater system and watch movies. A good home theater is something more than mere television watching at your will. You need to ensure a proper and a neat room with decent facilities to enjoy what is going on in the television set. This would not be enough just for two or three but for anyone who steps into your home theater. One of the many ways ere you can ensure your family or buddies to have considerable fun in your home theater is to arrange for good seating and keep them very comfortable. No one likes to watch a movie on an uncomfortable and itchy seat. The seating options available these days are immense. The best of them all is the most sought-after ‘theater recliner’. There are even people who barge into home theater for the love for their seats. However, I recommend seats which can aloe people to put their feet up. This is what you probably might not get when you go to a movie theater. The theater recliners you buy today mostly have this option. The theater recliner can be so attractive because of its armrests and a place to hold drinks. Anyone watching a movie would love to have a few munches of food and rests his hands cozily; this theater recliner can give it all. The seats can be clubbed with others and so you can enjoy the experience with your buddies next to you. Bringing the feel of a movie theater home is such a massive feeling. Lounger chairs are the other options available to you. You can, in fact, have both theater recliners and lounger chairs to get the retro-type feel or set-up ‘bistro’ tables. This can be mighty interesting if you sit for pizzas that night while watching movie. It can also be liked by children who need a table to eat and watch the movies on television. It is the best way where you can expect your family to unite. If you have really ventured out to get a good system of home theater for your home, you should also be considering a big comfy couch or a sofa to make everyone comfortable while sitting and watching. The comfort that a fat sofa can provide is immense. The couch along with the snuggly blankets can be the most soothing seating for a person watching a movie, especially in winter. © Wings Of Success Page 55 of 68
Slide 56: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre The kids are sure to like it as they can cuddle and play around watching a comic flick or some interesting cartoons. Funky furniture and toys can make your theater a little more kids-friendly. They are sure to enjoy it with their moms or dads cuddling around. There won’t be anyone fighting for their favorite seats and movie-watching might get peaceful. Rope in a few more trendy and funky stuffs for your kids to enjoy and also impress your visitors. As you can see, building up a home theater is no trivial thing. It is a huge jigsaw puzzle where you have to get your combination right to impress people. Although the three components of the system can be well established at your theater, it is the seating which might matter at the end of the day. Giving your guests all the comfort in the world, giving them enough room to rest and enjoy the movie is what you would love to see. Small things like providing them good soft pillows when they feel cold, giving them seats with armrests and a place to keep to their food can help a great deal in improving your theater. Try out all the options when it comes to seating, the bottom line being to make them as comfort table and home as possible. © Wings Of Success Page 56 of 68
Slide 57: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Setting Up A Surround Sound System, Even On A Tight Budget Owning a home theater has lot of benefits such as entertaining yourself or your family and guests. However, it can prove to be a major investment in your life. Even if you find yourself amidst a tight budget you should be able to purchase a surround system of your interest. Consider all the facilities back home when you go to purchase speakers as it can give you an idea about what kind of speakers’ suit you and your room. If you would like to follow this path, maybe not everyone would, you can fetch yourself a fabulous set of surround speakers at a good price. Not many like to go for a second-hand set of speakers, anything in electronics is such a risk for that matter. If you have a modest salesperson to deal with, then you can think of considering this option. E-bay seems to be the most popular source for surround speaker equipments, but again you have got to be careful. Check out the classified ads in the newspaper and refer a few local pawnshops if you wish to. While most of them like to buy surround systems piecewise, a few like to buy it at one go. Buying your sound system piece after piece can be a healthy option only when your budget is quite high. For people with lower budgets, it is better to purchase a ready-made kit of surround speakers and fix them in your room. Even the famous Bose speakers give you this kind of a choice. If you are not very willing to hassle a second-sale system or buy a boxed kit of speakers, it is very vital you think about and compare the costs with the merchants in order to get the best deal out of it. This can be very wise when your budget is not great. However, the most important thing to keep in mind is the quality of the products you buy. If you have set your eyes on one particular surround sound system and might not be able to get it due to budget limit, wait for the prices to drop down or do some overtime work in order to make extra cash. Do not commit yourself into a buy with debts as it can be really difficult later on to pay it back. It isn’t a good idea for surround speakers. As every new item makes its entry in to the market, the prices of the old ones get diminished, so wait for the right time and pounce © Wings Of Success Page 57 of 68
Slide 58: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre on the offer. Think of venturing into new businesses to get extra cash from somewhere or just wait for the prices to be slashed to see a good surround system at your place. It can be never easy to shop on a meager budget, true, but never feel miserable about it. You will always be able to find new deals in the market. All you need is will power and the patience. © Wings Of Success Page 58 of 68
Slide 59: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Space Saving Surround Sound Solutions Space is something everyone would love to have enough of and use them efficiently. Some good and lengthy space at home always induces us to occupy it with something. Surround sound systems of a home theater, nowadays, come in such sizes and shape that it beats the old notion of having too much space for it. The systems occupy very little space that one need not worry about sacrificing something for it. Though satellite speakers are getting popular, the effect and quality form floor speakers are unbeatable. The quality of such small and good speakers is evolving in the market, eradicating the bulkier ones. Space is something that is becoming a hot-topic in today’s world. People have started discussing issues with space and its problem dealing with the growing technology. More the products coming in to the market, more it reaches the people and more they are tempted to buy them. This way the space becomes a huge a problem. Making the systems slimmer and streamlined has become the latest resort to these companies. The technology in the wireless speakers is being appreciated now as people know their difficulties with speakers with long and annoying wires coming out of them. Anything that is occupying less space to them is being welcomed. These are some of the finest technologies that are evolving in our daily market and it is very heartening to see it happen. The other helping and encouraging factor is the affordability of these systems. Due to the involvement of many companies with the electronic goods, it is actually acting to the advantage of the buyers as the prices go down heavily. If space is what is troubling you and evading your mind from buying a home theater system or even a surround sound system, you will find your aggravation to an end. The components in electronics are getting smaller, thanks to technology, and so it becomes easy to accommodate everything at your place. Do not let off your movie watching pleasure just for lack of space. You can have the best of both the worlds: space and sound. The quality of the speakers can be fantastic if you wish to spend a little more of your time when you are buying these speakers. Test them before you fix your eye on it as its very important. Make sure you do not let yourself down after you have purchased it. Apart from the fantastic space saving ability of the smaller systems coming up, you might even find a good bargain if you wish to buy a boxed kit of a home theater or a surround system rather © Wings Of Success Page 59 of 68
Slide 60: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre than buying them individually. I always fear the boxed kits of home theater or surround systems because of the quality of it. But now I am more aware of it and more willing to buy the box sets as I trust the quality of them. The difference in the prices between the box sets and the individual components is very significant to me and hence I prefer it. Anyone would love to have good systems grabbed at a lower cost. So does it not only save a good amount of space but also saves real money. You will feel happy to make this deal as you know that once you had yourself cribbing about space and money wasted on these systems. Power is smoothing you need not bother about. Quality is everything you need to care considering the size of your room and a few other factors. Quality of the sound should be tested with all the facilities you have and notified immediately to the dealer if you find a problem with it. This basically sums up that these smaller sound systems are definitely ideal for the amount of space you willing to donate. © Wings Of Success Page 60 of 68
Slide 61: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Speaker Quality Speaks Volumes A home theater comprises of a number of pieces, components and parts, the most important part being the surround speakers. It’s the surround speakers that give you the movie theater effect ultimately. While the other parts and pieces can be bought over a period of time, it’s the speakers which need to be dedicated importance, priority over its buy. It has to be bought together in a kit or as a set rather than mixing and delaying time on it. The quality of the sound might be tampered. Surround sound system needs to be devoted good time and thinking before it is bought as it is by far the most important component of a home theater system. You can tamper around with tuners, receivers and amplifiers but with speakers, it might back-fire you. They need to be bought with patience and one shouldn’t regret in the end about the quality of the speakers being bad. Sound quality has to be good irrespective of the investment you decide to pool in for the system. Everyone loves to watch movies, no doubt, and they relish every moment because of the sound quality they are exposed to. For some it might be the mere smell of popcorn or the flavored soda fountains which excites them, but ultimately one enjoys the theater experience. For the movie lovers, the sound of the theater is what they consider the biggest asset to a theater. They come to the theater to watch movies for this even if they have interruptions thanks to the kids, cellular phones and nature calls. The thing which can bring up a big smile on the faces of these movie buffs is the fact that this same facility can be brought home too. This particular facility, thanks to technology, comes at even lower prices these days. This plays to the advantages of the buyer as the demand and its up-gradation is helping them. The speed of the up-gradation of these electronic items is appalling. I, in fact, remember seeing prices of DVD players at around $300 for the basic of the models. But now, for around $30 you can buy a very good model and be satisfied. They have good features and mostly meet the quality of the original. Can you place yourself in a situation where you will be selling surround sound systems for a very few in the coming years? © Wings Of Success Page 61 of 68
Slide 62: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre As we can all see, prices of these home theater systems, more specifically the surround sound systems are dropping to a great extent. Earlier brands of color and shade used to be sold in the market for low prices, to improve the supply of the company, and bad quality. The competition in the market today is very healthy and provides innumerable options for the people. The fantastic offers also keep improving as new products come into the market. The box sets are slowly gaining popularity in the market. Mind you, you will have to buy the system and test yourself before you intend to buy it. This is very important as it’s a huge investment and lapses can make you feel distraught later. Purchasing a surround system is no small investment financially nor is it easy to buy them and set it up. It takes something from a person to devote time and a lot of energy on it before buying them. Testing them while buying can help you a lot as surround systems might sound different in different places. It can be misleading at times as the sound coming of the system depends on the room and atmosphere. If you hastily buy a set of speakers, it can really be disappointing. Use the starting 10 minutes from the movie Top Gun to test your system. Remember to buy a DVD of this before you enter the shop. If the sound coming out of the speaker beats you and mesmerizes everyone, you should consider buying it. © Wings Of Success Page 62 of 68
Slide 63: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Surround Sound For Meager Budgets Purchasing a surround sound system for your home theater on a meager budget is no impossible event. As a matter of fact, it is easy to buy that stuff with any budget in hand these days. The thing you might have to sort out clearly in your head is that you will get any surround system irrespective of the budget in hand. It is just that the better ones cost more and the quality seems to be a little better. The quality differs in the sound from these systems and if you actually have the time to shop carefully and methodically, you will find a good surround system for yourself even at a good low budget. It is not, as with speakers, that you need high budget for speakers. The very first thing when it comes to purchasing speakers is setting your priorities. If you are decisive on your purchase of a surround sound system, keep your focus on it without any lapse in priority. When it comes to quality or saving money with surround speakers, it is better to buy them individually than opting for the box kits which comes along with the home theater. The only advantage with the boxed kits is that you get it with a DVD player. One normally tends to compromise on the speakers while buying a kit for the home theater. Not only do you save good money by buying the speakers on loose, you also get to know the better quality ones and buy them. Even with the DVD players or the DVR players you can get better quality when you buy them as a stand alone system. You will find all the components of a surround sound system including the speakers at all kind of rates in the market. You might have to buy a complete kit of the surround systems to check them out with the quality of the sound a movie theater could provide. These systems can be bought at astounding prices and it will be hard to believe it to be sold at low costs. If you have the patience in you to wait for better models, you might get luckier at the end of the day. Have a budget well prepared before you set for shopping and most importantly keep your talks within your budget. There can be the usual temptations to spend more money on your speakers going beyond the budget, but try to resist your temptations. Bigger screens, a good huge subwoofer, impeccable amplifiers are some of the things were temptations never really ceases. The important thing when you go for shopping is that not only should you buy the best products © Wings Of Success Page 63 of 68
Slide 64: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre at a decent price but also stick to the budget already set and try not exceeding it. It can give you so much satisfaction and also give you the room to spend more lately on quality things. One way to stick to your already planned budget is to purchase a 5.1 surround sound system which will have 6 speakers including a subwoofer and then upgrade it to a 7.1 speaker system. This provides flexibility in your purchase as you will be able to improve on your speakers at any time depending on the money flow. Though none can assure you about the budget going out of hand while upgrading the already bought product, it is definitely a good method to purchase speakers. So it is best to buy a good reliable system and then feed on it till you find the need for its up-gradation. Despite the fact that home theater sound systems are expensive, you will have enough to buy and own a good system for yourself and enhance it whenever you find the need for it. The golden rule is to take all the time in the world to compare prices of these systems before you buy it, think about what you really desire and start small. By doing this you will not only feel satisfied with your decision but also would have saved a good amount of money. © Wings Of Success Page 64 of 68
Slide 65: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre Home Theater Systems For The Kids- Not A Bad Idea! If you have a huge family behind you who loves watching movies, the best gift you can think of is a second home theater for the little ones in your family. Often an interesting Sunday game clashes with a famous Disney cartoon which the kids in our family love watching. These occur so many times at home and often either I or the kids end us in disappointment. This is precisely why a second home theater isn’t a bad idea. You can even use the home theater at your advantage when the kids have gone to learn their lessons. A second home theater system has a lot of benefits tagged along, lest it’s because of a breakdown of your first one. Sometimes I was left to wonder if I would ever see my kids again, when I was building the second home theater, but honestly, they have a different taste of movies or music which they watch on TV and it can even differ with their brothers or sisters. The fact that our television is bigger than theirs will not only attract them towards it but also one wouldn’t hide them away from doing anything related to the room it is in. About the benefits of the second home theater, kids, nowadays, learn to establish schedules and taking turns among them. They are slowly learning to make choices responsibly and also work in unison on occasion and compromising on their favorite shows nearing its end but not fully over. It is awesome to watch them more matured and cooperating. Not only does it allow them to bring over their friends and watch movies also it adds a wee bit of responsibility to them with the cleaning up of the room. They learn to keep their things tidy and neat, which I think is the best reason to buy a new home theater for the kids. The benefits of the second home theater, apart from the above mentioned, are many more. You allow your kids to learn to keep things safely inside the room apart from it being neat. It teaches them what it means to beak costly components of the system and hence the responsibility comes along. It makes them more matured as these small things can teach them good lessons for the future. They gradually will start to learn how to use the home theater with care by not pulling the CDs from shelves or throw things at the home theater and operating them with butter fingers. This is something that everyone would love to see in their kids and so it’s a good reason to buy a second home theater for your home. © Wings Of Success Page 65 of 68
Slide 66: How To Set Up Your Own Home Theatre As we just saw, a home theater is an excellent tool for bringing discipline and decorum in the kids. It is far better than reprimanding them on issues with surround system or home theater in your room. It is better to deal with it straight rather choosing what I call the hurting path for the kids. You ill not only bring a good person in your kid, also will you get him to attain maturity with expensive products. While many believe that a home theater or a surround system for the kids is overkill, I stand firm believing it adds a lot of responsibility to their personality and thereby preparing them to face the outside world. © Wings Of Success Page 66 of 68
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