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You can maximize the surround sound experience in a home theater by positioning the surround sound speakers properly. The speakers in a home theater system include the center channel speaker, the left and right front speakers, the surround channel speakers, and the subwoofer.
Here’s what a surround sound setup looks like.
Center speakers
Some people say the center speaker is optional, because the left and right speakers can handle the sound that comes from the center speaker. However, the center speaker anchors your onscreen dialogue and serves as a seamless connection between your left and right speakers. As that boat zooms by from left to right, you don’t want to have a gap in the middle of your sound field.
Make sure any speakers that will be close to a cathode ray tube (direct-view) video display are video shielded — especially the center speaker. If not, the speakers will cause video distortion on your screen.
Left and right speakers
The left and right speakers provide more lateral, but still highly localized and directed, sound. If possible, the left and right speakers in a surround sound system should be full-range speakers. For the best results, try to position the left and right front speakers so that the tweeters are at ear level.
Surround speakers
The surround speakers (whether you have two, three, four, or more side and back speakers) add a third dimension to your audio programming — bringing a front and back dimension to the left and right dimension provided by the front speakers.
Subwoofers
Most subwoofers have floor-based enclosures with active speaker systems (that is, with built-in amplifiers) for driving the low bass frequency ranges. Your biggest decision comes in bass management. You have a couple of options:
The subwoofer can complement your full-range front speakers, providing an even fuller bass signal.
The subwoofer can handle all the bass, giving your front speakers the ability to focus on the mid- and high-range frequencies.
Most home theater experts will advise you to move all bass to the subwoofer. This results in more power and attention to the mid- and high-frequency drivers and less strain on the amplifier and speaker systems. This setup also gives you a more dynamic range, because the bass can go lower than most full-range speaker woofers can themselves (hence the term subwoofer).
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Hi,
This is has been driving me insane for about a month now, but I've been receiving random static on my home theater speakers. Before I go any further, this is how my system is setup:
TV: Vizio P702ui-b3
Receiver: Sony STR DN1050
Speakers: Definitive Technology 8040BP (towers and center channel)
Misc. Devices: PS4, Xbox One and Arris receiver (TWC)
If I turn off all my devices and unplug all the inputs from the receiver, I am still getting random static on my speakers even when nothing is playing. Not sure how else to explain it but it sounds like a surge and the static comes and goes.
I ended up buying a power outlet tester, plugged it into all the outlets in my house and all of them are grounded and wired properly.
Coincidentally, all of this started happening after TWC came out for the TV install. I had internet only for about a year with them and didn't have any issues with my home theater. I decided to check the grounding from outside of my house and the coax is grounded to my electrical panel (not sure if it needs to be grounded differently but it looks correct to me). I even unplugged the coax from the splitter, outside of the house, (coax is still going to one of my rooms for the internet. home theater is in the living room) and I still got static.
Not sure what else to try at this point but I'm at the point where I want to sell off the system and just run the audio off my tv :(