Hiring a pro to tackle setting it all up for optimum performance is critical. The fun begins! Paint, fabrics, wall sconces, and seating should be put in place at this time. At this point, all the hard work in following the right steps to installing a home theater should pay off, and the room will begin to take shape before your eyes.
Installing furniture and lights and other design components will inevitably change the sound performance in the room. For peak performance, bring them back to tweak and adjust settings with the final layout in place. Look at those gorgeous chairs, that impressive screen, the dazzling lights. Why not break in your home theater with a movie marathon? Dim the lighting, and pour yourself a drink, inviting over friends and family is entirely optional! This website uses cookies to improve our service.
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While the basic wiring is easy, hiding the wires professionally takes time and forethought. Speaker wire is actually two attached wires, a red and a black. Some modern speakers have plugs instead of speaker wiring. In this case, the wires are color coded for easy access. Most speaker wire is covered in a wax sheath to protect it.
You must use scissors or wire cutters to trim this sheath and pull it off, exposing the bright copper wire inside. This wire makes the connection, not the sheath, so you must remove the wax to get your speakers working.
Test your first two speakers. Connect your two front speakers first, then test them out by playing a movie. Once you can get them to work, move on to the rest of the speakers. If you're using a soundbar, you'll most likely use an optical cable to connect your speaker to your receiver. This will conclude your home theater's speaker setup.
Connect the right speakers to the right inputs on the receiver. Surround sound works because the DVD tells the receiver where to send the information. If there is a stalker creeping up in the movie, you want your rear speakers to sound like leaves are crunching behind you, not the front ones. Make sure you attach each speaker to its appropriate channel, which is usually labeled "rear audio," "front speaker," etc.
Some pre-packaged systems have label ports while high-end systems can automatically detect which speaker goes where, allowing you to plug them all in anywhere. Hide your wires. In addition to looking professional, it also prevents people from tripping and ripping cables or pulling down speakers accidentally. Run cables under rugs, staple them to the baseboards along the sides of the walls, or run them through the walls if you are comfortable with carpentry.
There are a variety of services, including teams at Best Buy or Geek Squad, that will run your wires for you for a fee. Troubleshoot your speaker system if you can't hear any sound. Speakers are generally easy to attach, but that doesn't mean problems won't arise: Check the channel on your receiver. Make sure the channel on the front of the receiver matches the channel you plugged yours speakers into. Check the inputs. They should be firmly attached.
Make sure that the same wire connects the red end of the speaker to the red end of the receiver or they won't work. Test your speaker by plugging in an iPod or music player and testing that before trying a DVD. Most sound systems have a test feature, which plays a chime or sound through each of the speakers to assure you each is working and in the proper location. Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. That's all! Not Helpful 9 Helpful 3. How do I connect a home system to my computer so that it will work with my TV?
Not Helpful 1 Helpful 1. It depends how large your room is and how large your TV and speakers are. Most home cinema systems have a seats. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. I have connected the speakers and turned the system on but it only produce a sound, it can't play. What should I do? Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Depending on your location, it might make more sense to install in-ceiling speakers when configuring your surround sound, as doing so will ensure a cleaner, more authentic surround sound experience.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. You can buy wireless speakers or a soundbar, both of which are easier to hide than traditional external speakers. Consider purchasing a universal remote to consolidate your home theater system into one remote. Audio is just as important, if not more important than, your TV. A home theater company found that 95 percent of employees viewing a TV with higher-quality audio than an identical TV thought that the higher-quality audio TV had a higher screen resolution than its counterpart.
Always use caution when doing any type of construction. Make sure that when you work with electricity you cut the breaker at the panel before touching any wires.
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More success stories Hide success stories. Featured Articles How to. Trending Articles How to. New Pages How to. Second, temporarily mount the frame on the wall and check that it is horizontally level and vertically plumb. You may need to use shims between the frame and wall in order to achieve a plumb screen.
Third, take down the frame and attach the actual screen to the frame. Fourth, re-mount the frame now with screen attached and double-check horizontal level and plumb. I recommend using a 2 or 3 foot level instead of a short 5 or 8 inch level a.
You can see in the above image that I also had to use shims when leveling. You are almost done, but now comes what I think is the hardest part of the entire process. Fine-tuning can be time consuming, frustrating, and uncomfortable, unless that is, you enjoy holding your hands over your head for extended periods of time as you repeat the same steps over and over.
This is where buying a nice projector mount, like the PJT40, really pays off. These adjustments are very minor, thus they require a mount that is stable and offers precision control.
Many entry level mounts do not offer reliable and easy to use precision adjustments. Most projectors come with a built-in grid pattern that will help when making these adjustments. You should start by taking a minute or two to get the image relatively close to accurate before doing any fine adjustments. As you go through this arduous process, know that you will have to revisit each adjustment multiple times.
Every time you adjust one thing, it will affect something else. This is a back-and-forth process. This is especially true if the projector is far away from the screen. Zoom is adjusted by turning a ring around the lens. I normally make the image a little larger than the screen to ensure that the entire screen is filled.
Any part of the image that spills over will be absorbed by the screen frame. Sometimes I will purposefully make the image too small while performing other adjustments and only zoom out to the cover the full screen when everything else is dialed in.
This is because it can be easier to tell if pitch, roll, or yaw are incorrectly set when you can see the border of the image on the actual screen, as opposed to the frame around the screen. Adjusting focus on a projector is just like with a camera.
You start by moving the image out of focus, and then slowly adjusting the ring until the image snaps into focus. If you are doing this alone, you can use a pair of binoculars or walk up to check focus. Many people simply adjust focus using their naked eye from the distance of the projector. Roll is fairly easy to adjust.
Assuming that the screen is level, all you need to do is set a small torpedo level on the projector, oriented so it is parallel to the screen, and adjust the mount until the projector is also level.
Remember, fine-tuning is a process of repeatedly making small adjustments to each setting. If the projector is pointing up or down, you will have issues with pitch. The projector should be pointing straight forward, perpendicular to the screen. If pitch is set correctly, the left and right sides of the image will be parallel.
The easiest way to dial in pitch is to set a small torpedo level on the projector, oriented so it is perpendicular to the screen, and adjust the mount until the projector is level. Once the pitch is set properly, chances are that the image will be too high or low on the screen. This is where vertical lens shift comes into play.
Use lens shift to bring the image up or down. You may have to go back and forth between adjusting pitch and vertical lens shift a few times until the image is lined up properly. Do not, ever—no matter what—use keystone correction. Keystone correction is digital processing used to manipulate the size of the image and compensate for incorrect pitch.
It is convenient, but will reduce image quality. I find that yaw is the most difficult adjustment to make. To adjust yaw, you need to turn the projector from side-to-side until the top and bottom of the image are parallel.
If the lens is exactly horizontally centered on the screen, the image will also be horizontally centered on the screen. If the lens is a little off, the image will be off. Just like adjusting pitch, lens shift is used to fix this problem. Adjust yaw a little bit, then lens shift, then yaw, and so on, until the image is horizontally centered.
An invaluable tip when adjusting yaw is to use a piece of tape to mark the center of the screen place the tape on the frame, not the screen. You can also use this trick when adjusting pitch, just put the tape on the vertical center of the screen instead of horizontal center. At this point, you are finished mounting and aligning your screen and projector.
Congratulations are in order! Check out our home theater set up guide for help setting up the rest of your gear, and making picture adjustments on the projector.
If you have any questions or comments, let us know in the comments below. Cliff, like many of us, has always loved home theater equipment.
In high school he landed a job at Best Buy that started his path towards actual high quality audio. His first surround sound was a Klipsch 5. After that he was hooked, moving from Klipsch to Polk to Definitive Technology, and so on. Confused about what AV Gear to buy or how to set it up? Installing a Home Theater Projector and Screen. Screen Location Your very first task is to determine the best location for the screen.
According to THX, viewers should not have to look up more than 15 degrees At this point in the installation, you could pull out the instruction manual that came with the screen and mount the screen on the wall.
Projector Location Determining the best location for the projector is quite a bit trickier than the screen. Vertical Offset: How far down from the ceiling? Horizontal lens Shift: How far off to the side? Mount Projector to Ceiling At this point, you should know exactly where the projector lens needs to be. PJT40 Projector Plate Next, you need to determine the exact location the ceiling plate should be mounted. Measuring From Lens to Ceiling Plate Detach the ceiling plate from the projector plate and proceed to mount the ceiling plate on the ceiling are you tired of reading the words projector, ceiling, and plate yet?
Try to ignore the ugly border Enlisting the help of a significant other or friend is a good idea when attempting the next step.
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