Building your dream home theatre is all about lifestyle but, if planned poorly, it can turn into a nightmare. Perfect home theatre is all about excellent sound, good reverberation, no cracking noise and perfect balance of sound signal at the center stage of your home. Several criteria are needed to be followed to make such home theatre. Here are five steps to home-entertainment nirvana:
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Time required: 2-3 days
Resources required
1. 5.1 wooden home theater speaker system
2. Audio wires (20m)
3. Concealed wiring pipes
4. Chisel and hammer
5. Wall putty
6. Cement
7. Paint
8. Pipe holders and screws
9. Paint
10. Good wooden Sofa
11. A wooden table with glass top
12. Audio/Video system
13. Marker
14. Measuring Tape
Estimate Cost: Around US$1050
Instructions
Step 1: Install the Audio Video system
The foremost step is to set the place for your AV system. You can use the one end of your room for this purpose. Make sure that it is far from windows and doors and most certainly not opposite to any form of light source.
Step 2: Setting up your Central speaker system
Keep the center speaker and woofer in the front. The best position for woofer is below the A/V system deck. Make sure the woofers touch the ground so that noise due to reverberation can be subsided down. The central speaker should be installed above the A/V system at an angle facing the center of the room. Use the hammers and screws to hang the speaker.
Step 3: Setting up your surround speakers
The best position is to have speakers installed in four corners of the room. However, the best place is to decide the sitting position of your room and decide the position of the speakers accordingly. Use the measuring tape for equivalent measurement from the sitting position. Current speaker systems have volume control for each of the speaker separately. Thus, the positions may not matter. However, fixing the volume of speakers actually dampens your experience. Mark the speaker position and put a screw in the place to hang the speakers.
Step 4: Wall excavation
Once you have marked the place. Use a pencil and draw perpendicular lines on the wall to reach the A/V system. With help of chisel, excavate the wall lining so that pipes can be put to carry the audio wire.
Step 5: Fixing the concealed pipes
Once the wall is excavated, you need to connect the audio wires to your speakers, if in case your speaker system does not have longer wires to cover the ends of the room. Put the wires inside the pipes and fix the pipes in the excavated wall with help of pipe clamps.
Step 6: Concealing the audio wire pipes
Use the cement to cover the wall and pipes and make it level with the wall cement coating. Put the wall putty on them when the cement is completely dried. Paint the wall to match the wall colors of your room. This is the step that needs expertâs intervention. Your home theater is ready to be connected and rocking your home.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why do I need wooden speakers?
Answer: Wooden speakers creates lesser reverberation noise.
2. Why do I need concealed wirings?
Answer: If you are installing a home theater system, you need to keep the room as clutter free as possible. However, that is not mandatory. You can fix the wire neatly on walls.
Quick Tips
1. If you havenât constructed your house yet, ask the architect to have concealed wiring for your audio system in the room of your choice.
2. Using the wall putty lets you to color your wall immediately.
3. You can use measuring tapes to know the exact position of your speaker systems.
4. You do not need to buy high end speakers make a quality home theater.
Things to watch out for
1. Wall excavation needs expert hands, so do consult construction people.
2. Use good quality audio wires as snapped connection may result in redoing the whole section again.
