Home cinema setup: how to adjust the screen and acoustics?

Fans of cinema love to spend evenings and weekends with the whole family or alone watching new and old, but very favorite films. At home, you can organize your own movie theater, the sound and image quality in which will be no worse than in a real movie theater.

In order for the effect from watching the movie to be high, it is necessary to properly adjust the acoustics, install the equipment and furniture in the apartment, and select the appropriate headset. If you do everything correctly, a pleasant experience and comfortable viewing are provided for you.

How to arrange a set of equipment

Before connecting a home theater, you need to choose the right place for each element of the system. Even at the stage of purchasing equipment, you should take care of the optimal screen size. The screen should correspond to the area of ​​the room selected for the home theater. If the screen is small, the acoustics will be weak. The monitor is installed at eye level of those present in the room.

Directly below the screen are a DVD player, subwoofer, receiver. Acoustic speakers have a hemisphere and are sent to the audience, which in relation to them (to the speakers) should be in the center.

Instructions for connecting and installing

Installed equipment must be connected through a receiver that connects all devices to a single system. The receiver converts the incoming signal, transfers it to the monitor and acoustic devices. The receiver includes a tuner, amplifier and multi-channel decoders.

Equipment is connected in series:

• First, through various cables, a home theater is connected to the TV. The choice of cable depends on the type of output.
• Then connect the surge protector.
• Next, connect the speaker system and the central channel.
• Additional elements are connected to the central channel.
• A plug is mounted on each cord and everything is brought out to the outlet.

Amplifier

The function of the amplifier is to transfer sound to ordinary speakers in a certain quality. In a home theater, there are usually at least five passive speakers connected to one power supply. When purchasing an amplifier, you should consider the characteristics of the speaker system. For low-power speakers buy an amplifier with large parameters, and the speakers themselves are arranged according to the scheme according to which the rear speakers are installed at a certain distance.

Important! Passive speakers should be at the same distance from the audience and be directed at them.

Satellites with a wide range of sound can be rotated in any direction, since their sound is equally effective regardless of direction.

Acoustics

The sound quality depends on how the acoustics were correctly connected, which is very important for a comfortable movie viewing. As a rule, we buy already configured speakers, which only need to be connected correctly. Sound cable must be pre-processed:

• remove insulation;
• to clean the ends;
• twist the wire into a bundle.

For contact efficiency, banana connectors for acoustics are used. At the end of the work, make sure that all the manipulations are done correctly, the cables and connectors are in place. To check, turn on the speakers and adjust the outgoing sound with the equalizer slider.

How to set up a home theater

It is convenient to set parameters on the receiver using the remote control. First, the front and rear speakers adjust the bass. If the room does not allow the speakers to be placed in a hemisphere, the central acoustic element is set farthest from the audience and the sound delay mode is set for it.

The next step is to determine the optimal volume, which will be used by default, that is, be the main one. The selected volume level is fixed either only on the center speaker, or on all speakers.

Reference! To permanently adjust the settings, it is recommended to include a familiar fragment of the film, so that the sound can be made as natural as possible.

Home theater equipment is sold with instructions that describe the installation and connection process step by step. It says where to connect the cable of one color or another, outputs and connectors are indicated. Following these recommendations, you will configure the equipment correctly and quickly.