Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in your Home Theater

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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater
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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater

• Step I Placement of Speakers and Seats

• Your first step when setting up wall
  soundproofing panels in your home theater is to
  fix the placement of speakers and seats. These
  include the center, left, and right speakers,
  along with the surrounds. You need to ensure that
  once fixed, the placement of these elements will
  not change, as doing so will cause the reflection
  points on the ceiling, floor, and walls to change
  as well.

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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater

• Step II Tagging the Speakers

• You will need to remove all furniture,
  furnishings, and decorations from the room. The
  ceiling, walls, and floors need to be bare to
  complete the task effectively. Identify each
  loudspeaker in the room with a different colored
  post-it note. The difference in color will help
  you identify and correlate reflection points with
  the respective speakers. This, in turn, will help
  you set up the soundproofing wall panels easily.

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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater

• Step III Identifying Reflection Points

• Sit right in the center of the room, which should
  be the central listening point as well. Ask a
  friend or family member to hold a mirror flat
  against one wall surface and slide it slowly
  across the surface. Do this until the mirror
  captures the reflection of one of the
  loudspeakers in the room. Mark that spot on the
  wall, as that in the speaker in the reflected
  image, with the same colored post-it note. Do the
  same for all walls as well as floors and
  ceilings. You will end up with 30 reflection
  points in the room for all five speakers. An
  effective acoustic wall panel will come into
  place only if you take count of the reflection
  points on windows and doors as well.

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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater

• Step IV Masking the Reflection Points

• The last step in setting up wall panels for noise
  reduction in your home theater involves masking
  all these reflection points to prevent the sound
  from bouncing off them. You can choose various
  sound absorbing materials, including thick rugs
  or carpets for hardwood floors, the fabric
  wrapped sound absorption panels for lightweight
  drywall or heavy plaster, and sound absorptive
  curtains for windows, to take care of these
  reflections.

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Easy Steps to Set Up an Acoustic Environment in
your Home Theater
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