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  Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 Time: 11:42 PM
  After spending a huge amount of money, everyone seeks satisfaction about the sound system installed in his/her home but still there are some matters to be considered. Investing in home theater systems is not an easy task and takes some time to plan about getting the aesthetic right and making yourself comfortable with the equipment around you.
  The first thing about installing a home theater in your home may feel unexpected to some readers that you need to incline your family members to have the sound system installed in their midst. You may need to choose among various locations in your home like the living room or some other room dedicated for a complete television watching experience without disturbing the rest of the family members.
  There are two major types of high-definition, flat televisions: LCD and plasma. Plasma is basically made for large size and the prices often go close to five figures whereas the LCD panels are as cheaper as less than a thousand. Since LCD's have a size limitation, therefore plasma is the more preferred choice for a television in theater system home choice.
  Theater home system is meaningless without a video source. DVD is the best solution. In case you are not a astute aficionado, it would be an uphill task for you to go for the right choice because decreasing cost and advanced technology will keep on impacting the market.
  As the major radio and television broadcasts are intending to 'port' into digital format in the near future, surrounded sound instructions will be used to encode the broadcast material. A receiver gives you the advantage of accessing and decoding these encoded instructions to give you fantastic sound. THX Surround, AC-3, DTS and Dolby® Digital are currently offering surrounded sound for theater system home.
  Receivers have the capability of connecting to various types of players to handle their particular media, including HiFi or VCR and new are designed to be compatible with the upcoming formats and standards. There are many DVD players that have built-in receiver abilities.
  The speakers available in the market come in sets of two, three, and five. In a two speakers' combination, the adjustment is configured as left and right. Three speakers are adjusted as the right, left and center. The five speakers' combination is not often used and is configured as right, left, center and two at the back. The issue of speakers' adjustment is crucial because sound effects and spoken dialogue are handled in a different way. The surround sound is actually the phenomenon in which different speakers play different sounds simultaneously. The subwoofer theater is a bit apart that processes low frequency sounds to give you massive "boom-boom bass". This feature is the major factor that attracts people to buy Subwoofer Theater. This is something extra that you cannot experience from the movie with ordinary sound producing mechanisms.
  Cables have primary importance; it is odd to expect good quality sound with lousy cables. So always insist for a good one. This is because lousy or poor quality cables naturally degrade the signals that they carry.
  The last but important thing is to save your speakers from power surges and attenuations. Try to make them light-proof. This can be accomplished through professional's advice.
  These are some guidelines that do not guarantee of 100% achievement of the desired results. For satisfaction, you can ask your dealership for a test. This would help you familiarize with the quality of sound you desire.