If you're lucky enough to have a room dedicated to your home theater, you have a lot more control:
Balance hard and soft surfaces; for example, compensate for a hard ceiling with a carpeted floor.
Pull your front speakers further into the room than your TV.
Experiment further with speaker placement.
Consider specialized room-tuning components, such as wall diffusers and bass absorbers. Although most are not visually attractive, they can work wonders for your sound..
Interconnect cables.
These include all the cables you use to connect one component to another. Look for:
1. High-quality physical construction
2. Good-quality connectors that fit together solidly but not so tightly that they have to be forced
3. Ethernet cables that are at least Category 5
4. HDMI® cables that are officially labeled "High Speed"
Be aware that video cables and audio interconnects are not interchangeable, even though they may look alike.
There are two basic areas:
Speaker cables
Speaker cable is essentially the same type of wire used for lamps, toasters, and other appliances. Your home theater retailer typically will offer several choices.
Expensive cables
Some interconnects and speaker cables cost a lot per foot. Others are inexpensive: 12 AWG lamp cord, which is plenty thick, sells for less than a Rs. 1000 a foot.
Is expensive cabling worth the cost? Use your best judgment. You probably don't need a Rs. 16000 HDMI cable to connect a Rs. 8999 Blu-ray™ player and a Rs. 50000 HDTV.
The same goes for your other connections.
Do you need A/V furniture?
Although any good set of sturdy shelves may do, using furniture designed for A/V equipment has some advantages:
Hiding the wires: A/V furniture often includes channels to route and conceal wires.
Convenience: pullout shelves in A/V furniture can make hookup vastly easier.
Ventilation: extra space in A/V furniture can help dissipate heat from receivers.
Media storage: keep your discs and other physical media together.
Speaker stands
We don't recommend placing speakers on any furniture that also holds any of your home theater components. The vibrations can affect the sound and shorten component life. Sometimes this placement is unavoidable, particularly with the center-channel speaker. Placing your speakers on stands is a good alternative.
Look for speaker stands that are:
Sturdy, both for sound and aesthetics
Stable, for maximum resistance to children and pets
Able to situate your speakers at roughly ear height when you're seated
Designed to hide speaker wires
See the speaker setup guide for best placement of surround speakers.
Wall mounting
If your room can accommodate it, mounting your TV to the wall is an excellent alternative to buying furniture for your TV display. Many center-channel speakers can also be mounted on a wall.<.br>
Wall mounts are frequently an ideal solution for placing the surround speakers, particularly if you have a 7.1-channel system, with speakers behind the seating area.
