Why Should I Care? The other day a friend of ours was showing us his new HDTV setup and new speakers. While he had researched his HDTV purchase tirelessly, he hadn’t put much thought into the speaker setup. When it came time to set up the speakers he had purchased to go with the TV he simply plugged them in and set them all on the shelf under his new TV.

5.1 Surround Sound – The Right Speaker Placement. Bad speaker placement. Things like these: speakers too low/high. Of the surround speakers. One is what Dolby.

The only way for that setup to be less optimal would be if the speakers were inside a nearby closet. There is an enormous amount of energy invested in giving you a great home theater and listening experience. Everyone from speaker designers to audio engineers to foley grips—the people who add sound effects into movies—have all contributed to recreating realistic and enjoyable sound in your home. In order to take advantage of all that energy invested in producing awesome soundtracks and movie scores, however, you have to invest a little energy of your own. Don’t worry, we have already done the research for you.

Simply follow along as we explain what each speaker does and where you want to place it. Understanding Stereo, Surround, and Audio Channels To start our speaker placement journey, let’s first start out with the most familiar audio setup around—simple stereo sound. Keygen for ableton.

When you’re listening to your iPod with a pair of headphones, watching television on a set with no attached theater or speaker system, or listening to the radio, you’re experiencing audio in stereo. Dubstep. Stereo audio is simply two channels of audio, one for the left speaker and one for the right speaker.

It’s the most minimal setup required to provide the illusion of sound directionality and perspective for the listener. In surround sound notation, this simple two channel setup is referred to as a 2.0 system (or, 2 channels with no subwoofer). Adding in a subwoofer changed the notation to 2.1—the.1 represents the subwoofer and the accompanying Low Frequency Effects channel that powers it. More complex audio systems build on the 2.1 system and add additional channels to create a 360-degree envelope of sound around the listener. Unlike simple 2 channel systems that are usually driven by hardware on the main device (such as the portable music player or television set), multi-channel surround sound systems generally require a separate component known as an receiver to amplify and distribute the audio signals from the source (like the Blu-ray player or cable box) to the speakers. Current consumer audio receivers support anywhere between 5.1 to 11.2 channels of audio (five speakers with one subwoofer and eleven speakers with two subwoofers, respectively).