Sound Surround System
Posted in Uncategorized, hi fi systems, surround speakers on Sep 16th, 2009
Installing The Sound Surround System
By : Maxeka Lumuda
surround sound speaker system
The sound system technology improved impressively for year to year. The new one, surround sound, created by scientist and engineer to comforting you in enjoy the music or movies. With this technology, you feel in reality of music or movies performance. But, do you know how this technology created? That didn’t important for you, the important one is how to grab the sound surround system component , install and build the sophisticated sound surround system for your home.
The first step is to identify what you need to connect to the sound surround system, is it DVD player, television, radio etc. The important think in this step actually what the type of input connection. If you want to perform 5.1 sound surround system, you need to use optical fiber or digital coaxial cable. With these device, you will be able to perform high quality stereo sound in your home.
The 5.1 sound surround system consists of 2 front speakers, 2 rear speakers and 1 woofer also as low frequency channel. The front speakers deliver stereo left and right , and the rear speaker deliver surround stereo sound left and right. The subwoofer will be used under incredibly than the speakers commonly, according what you want to listen.
If you are movies maniac, your rear speaker should be relative silently. They will be used seldom, so you will hear from center channel almost.
The DVD player can connect by digital audio connection if your receiver has it. The ‘pre-outs’ subwoofer is also needed, which colored purple commonly. If there is no pre-outs in your receiver, you still can optimize your receiver by hooking up the subwoofer, but the bass actually be reduced.
Wiring the sound surround system
Cabling or wiring the sound surround system is one of the important things. The sound signal will be transmitted by the cable, so the quality of cable influences the quality of sound produced. The following are some cabling for optimal surround sound producing.
- Optical fiber or digital coaxial cable
- Regular RCA cable for subwoofer or actual subwoofer cable.
- Y-Adapter plugs into the red and white RCA jacks.
- Speaker wire with 16 or 14 gauge quality to connect your 5 speakers.
If you’re ready with the first step above, let’s continue to the great surround sound experience !
Placements of the 5.1 speakers are not instantly. Need experience and more time to raise the best performance of listening sound. First positioning your speakers, you can place it experimentally. But, remember to place it as high as your sitting position. The speaker position can setup geometrically so the sound distribution spread evenly or centered to your sitting position. You can setup the distance between speakers and also the angle. The speaker angle is facing to you not to your ceiling or your wall. That’s the basic placement of speakers.
Once you get the sound, you can move the speaker position to improve the sound quality, balancing or loudness.
Make sure your speaker wiring is correct. Check it again and connected to subwoofer, try to sound it and if you get the sound right, all of your systems are finally set.
The last one is try to connect your system with DVD player. The DVD is using digital coaxial or optical fibers. Choose one suitable for your system and connect it to your system. Select the input of the system for DVD (digital input) and then play your DVD. If there is no problem, you will hear the sound. But if there is any problem, check it again according to the manual. You must get the sound if you followed direction given by the manual. Enjoy your listening!
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