Generally speaking, a home theater system is a combination of electronic components designed to recreate the experience of watching a movie in a theater. … When you go to see a movie in a quality movie theater, you’ll hear the music, sound effects and dialogue not just from the screen, but all around you.
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If you're thinking about building a home theater, let walk you through the steps.
Choose a Location
Frame and Insulate
Pre-Wire Surround Sound
Pre-Wire a Video Projector
Pre-Wire Lighting
Install Drywall and Sound Barriers
Set Up Video and Sound Systems
Use sound dampening materials such as sound panels, drapes or carpeting. For new homes or full remodeling, it is best to install zero-sound drywall. It absorbs sound, is thick, and since the drywall is the sound barrier you can decorate the room with normal paint and materials. Soundproof floors and ceilings.
Floors and ceilings can be soundproofed using many of the same systems suitable for walls. Most commonly, homeowners add an additional layer (or two) of drywall, with dampening glue in between. As a simple additional step, cover the floor with soundproofing mats, then install carpet.
The biggest advantage of buying a projector screen is that it gives you more control than you’d get with a bare wall. … Even if you have a perfectly smooth, white wall, you still might want to get a projector screen. Most screens have a black border around them, which helps frame your movies and TV shows.
A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers.
Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology developed by Dolby Laboratories. It expands on existing surround sound systems by adding height channels, allowing sounds to be interpreted as three-dimensional objects. It enabled speakers direct sound upward and reflect off the ceiling to produce incredibly lifelike, overhead sound.
