Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Difference Between Home Theatre Speakers & Subwoofers

 After several reviews and friends’ suggestions many of us still remain confused yet finally make up our mind as a last minute decision and buy a set of speakers to enjoy home theatrewith full satisfaction!

 

Exaggeration at an acoustically treated room during audition with some untold mysterious set up including hi-end players and 7.2 or at least a 5.2 channel set up of home theatres shooting  guns at you was sure electrifying and most of us visited cloud nine and landed back home to see what we brought home was another guy altogether who doesn’t even let us sit back with smile!

 

Let us reinstate the fact that 99% of Home Theatre Speakers in India are not meant for music while we also get convinced with that when the sales guy switched the music button which actually switched to a stereo with Subwoofers.

 

We should know that we would never get the ideal display car for sale as it’s tweaked up to perform and finely finished to excellence with ceramic, or high quality teflon or any advanced finish and painting techniques to attract our eyes!

 

It’s a sales technique at the end of a business day!

 

Let us understand that the Home Theatres especially in India with compact homes is first about the home and then the theatre by its nature! It cannot actually be the big theatre itself in most cases a highly toned-down version

 

Which means reflection of sound waves and high noise level, echo and ambient noise, extra freaky vents of lows and highs, harmonic distortion, interference and a collision of multiple instruments and sound effects or voice getting jammed could be quite obvious to hit the loop of driven sound waves straight out of the movie or series. Now-a-days this is high due to digital streaming or digital source!Likewise, room size matters yet an exception depend on how much volume you watch the movies or videos at!

 

Sure, gives a relaxation to even go for astounding sound delivering set ups.

 

So as per our earlier knowledge materials you might have read, there is a sure expansion of sound field like sound staging and 3 D surround reproduction with a build quality with proper spacing between the drivers and allowing them to act with full control of the sound waves received through the type of subwoofer likea passive/activeand sealed/ported subs.

 

Yes, you read it right; two instead of one gives the raw feel of a movie while there are too many effects and sound or epic music along with scene sounds produced in most of these days’ movies!

 

So, one Sub may not usually handle them well enough in a big room and also support the 5 or 7 channels to the right extent as most speaker designers concentrate on better surround and roar and lose out on details!

 

Even a pin drop sound has to sound clear until it falls flat and even every gunshot of multiple shoots in a scene pictured or multiple people shouting or talking!

 

Image the above well and even more and then audition the speakers!

 

When it rings the bell right, just go for it!




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