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Accessories For Home Theater / Acoustic Area

You're ready for a home theater set-up, and you're quivering with anticipation at the thought of a fully immersive movie experience right in your own home. But Where do you begin?
Here's what you need to know.

The Room :

• Room shape. 
Square rooms tend to produce odd harmonic distortions.
• Walls. 
If you're tempted to staple inverted egg cartons all over your walls to muffle sound, relax.
• Flooring. 
Wall-to-wall carpet, with a new cushy pad underneath, absorbs ambient sound and contributes to coziness.
• Wall/room color. 
Paint your walls as dark as you can stand them.

The Sound :

• Speaker placement. 
A typical home theater features 5.1 surround sound, meaning there are five full-range speakers and one low-range specialist, the woofer. 
You'll place three speakers and the woofer toward the front of the room, and the two remaining speakers on either side and slightly behind your viewing position. Keep speakers at least 20 inches from walls.
• Ideal distance. 
In a perfect world, your ears would be equidistant from each speaker.
• Playing center field. 
Of all your speakers, your center front speaker is perhaps the most influential.
• Woofers. 
A corner location helps distribute your woofer's sound evenly but, as with all components, experiment with different positions before settling on the ideal location.

Viewing:

You're looking for the right combination of display size and viewing angle.
Optimum angle. 
HDTV manufacturers and home theater experts place the best viewing angle between 30 to 40 degrees. 
Meaning, if you would draw a triangle from the edges of the display to your nose, the angle of the apex (the angle that points at your head) would be 30 to 40 degrees. This lets you take in all the action with minimal, comfortable eye movement.
Optimum distance. 
Ideal viewing angle can be expressed simply as distance, too, usually 1.5 to 2.5 times the diagonal width of your screen. 
That means you should sit no closer than 7.5 feet from a 60-inch-wide TV, and no more than 12.5 feet away. A viewing distance calculator can help when math skills falter.
Viewing height. 
The best viewing height is to have the center of the display screen at eye level. While that might seem elemental, some folks are tempted to elevate the display so that it lords above their theater set-up. 
If you do elevate your display, tilt it so that it faces your seating area. If your seats recline so that you're square to the display, so much the better.

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