If you recently purchased a home theater system or a pair of cordless speakers, you may want a few recommendations on correctly setting it up if you don’t want to hire an installer. You may think you are technically savvy and that installing your new home theater system is going to be a snap. I am going to present several recommendations that will help you steer clear of several frequently made errors.
After unpacking your new home theater system, you will normally find a central element and 5 or seven speakers. The main component will deliver the audio for each and every one of your loudspeakers that you are going to install. This component is also called surround receiver and acts as the main control of your home theater system.
Make sure that you place this receiver in a place that is fairly centrally located to reduce the amount of loudspeaker cable that you must run. You do not inevitably have to put the receiver right next to your TV. Just be sure it is in a dry and secure location. In addition, be certain that you can easily reach the receiver from your television set or DVD/Blue-ray player as you are going to need to connect these. The receiver requires an audio signal in order to provide surround sound. Usually it is going to accept an optical surround sound signal. You can connect this input to your TV by using a fiberoptical cable. This cord is normally included with your system. You can also get it a many electronics stores. After you have established the audio connection to your television set, you can now go ahead and connect your loudspeakers. This step requires a little bit more effort. If you have wireless rear loudspeakers you will not need as much loudspeaker cord and the install is going to be somewhat less difficult. First of all, measure how much loudspeaker cable you will require. Make sure to add some extra cord to take into account those twists and corners. Pick the gauge of the speaker cable based on how much output power you plan to drive your loudspeakers with. The higher the wattage the thicker the loudspeaker cable. Many subwoofers are going to have a built-in amplifier and thus accept a low-level music signal. You can connect your subwoofer by using a shielded RCA cable. The speaker cable connects to each loudspeaker via the speaker terminals. These terminals are color coded. This helps observe the correct polarity when connecting the speaker cord. Go with a loudspeaker cable which is color coded to help make sure the correct polarity while attaching to the speaker terminal. Similarly, every loudspeaker output of your surround receiver is color coded. Whilst attaching the cord to your receiver, observe the right polarity once again. This is going to keep all of your loudspeakers in phase.
If you are using wireless loudspeakers, there will be a small audio delay incurred throughout the audio transmission to the loudspeakers, also called latency. Ideally, all loudspeakers have the same latency and consequently are in perfect sync. If you have both cordless as well as wired loudspeakers, the wireless loudspeakers will be out of sync with the wired speakers. Therefore you will need to delay the audio going to the wired speakers by tweaking your receiver. The amount of delay must be identical to the latency of the wireless outdoor speakers.
Check the user manual in order to figure out how to set a delay on particular channels. Generally home theater systems that were designed for wireless speakers or have a wireless transmitter will have this capability and allow your loudspeakers to be in phase.
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