HOME THEATRE

HOME THEATRE
• Home theatre system is a combination of electronic components designed
to recreate the experience of watching a movie in a theatre.
•  A home theatre can be as simple as a few AV devices in your living room
or as complex as a completely renovated room.
• a home theatre system should provide a high-quality video experience and
an immersive audio experience.
THE AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPEMENTS USED:
 Picking the Right Display.
  Source Components.
 Home Theatre Electronics or Components.
 Speaker Systems.
CRITERIAS TO BE CONSIDERED WHILE
DESIGNING A HOME THEATRE:
 Lighting: The darker the room, the better
the picture. Direct light onto the projector
can cause the picture to appear washed
out. While screening, use of drapes to
darken the room and give you a better
viewing experience.
 Breathing Room: Electronics produce heat,
and if they get too hot, bad things can
happen. Breathing space between one
another has to be provided, and should be
placed in a ventilated cabinet.
 Wires: Cable quality is very important, a
better-quality cable will give better-
quality picture and sound. When its being
played at high volumes, good audio wiring
will provide less distortion. Thicker cable
wires will mean less interference from
electrical wires in the walls.
 Speakers: There are many
available options when choosing a
speaker system. The size of the
room will tell the number of
speakers that will be needed. It's
important to get the right speakers
to handle the depth of the bass or
the lower frequencies of movies.
 Receivers: The receiver up-
converts the video from all the
components attached to the TV.
Instead of having to switch the set
and the receiver to match picture
with sound, one can simply switch
the receiver and it will act as the
switcher.
 Easy Viewing: Placing the TV in
a corner will make it difficult to
balance the speakers. Be
creative with the sound design
and speaker placement; use
anything from wall and floor
speakers to get optimal sound.
 Soundproofing: Putting up
soundproofing panels will help
deaden the echo in the room,
especially in a basement
screening room. If you have
concrete walls, you're going to
get a lot of reverb; soundproof
panels will eliminate this
problem.
• 15’ wide,20 long,8’ ceiling height is the good size for home theatre.1.2m screen height.
• Riser height is 12 inches per row.
• If plastic folding chairs are used then 33.25 inches gap between seat to seat in back
should be left.
HOW ACOUSTICS FOR HOME
THEATRES ARE DONE
THE FOLLOWING STEPS SHOW THE PROCESS
FOR GOOD ACOUSTICS IN A HOME THEATRE
• Step 1) Determine Surround Sound Speaker
Placement 
• Step 2) Find Where to Place Sound Absorbing
Treatment
• Step 3) Sound Absorbing Panels
• Step 4) Install Sound-Absorbing Drapery
 STEP 1- Determine Surround Sound Speaker
Placement
• Television (Screen) Position
• Center Channel Position
• Left & Right Front Speaker Position
• Surround (rear) Speaker Position:
• Subwoofer (Low Frequency Effects)

Step 2) Find Where to Place Sound Absorbing

Treatment
• Finding reflection points to avoid comb filtering and achive  specular
reflections
• the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
 STEP 3: Sound Absorbing Panels

• Placing sound absorbing panels in positions

that are ideal.

Step 4) Install Sound-Absorbing Drapery

• Using sound absorbing curtains for light and

better efficiency of the acoustics.
 Placement of 7.1 surround speakers

Placement of 5.1 surround By Dolby

speakers
Calculation of distance between Viewer and Screen
TYPES OF ACOUSTICS FOR
HOME THEATRE
 ACOUSTIC ABSORPTION
• Acoustic absorption refers to the
process by which a material,
structure or object takes in sound
energy when sound waves are
encountered.
• Part of the absorbed energy is
transformed into heat and part is
transmitted through the absorbing
body.
• When sound from a loudspeaker
collides with the walls of a room, part
of the sound’s energy is reflected,
part is transmitted, and a part is
absorbed into the wall.
Panel type Pyramid type

Wedge type Grid type

 ACOUSTIC DIFFUSION
• Acoustic sound diffusion keeps
sound waves from grouping, so
there are no hot spots or nulls in a
room.
• Diffusion obliterates standing
waves and flutter echoes without
simply removing acoustic energy
from the space or greatly changing
the frequency content of the
sound.
• Some famous recording artists like
to perform in strongly diffusive
environments because of the
openness they hear.
• Acoustic sound diffusion can make
a small space seem large and a
large space seem even larger.
 Bamboo
diffusers

Geofusers Hemisphere 3D sound diffuser

 BASS TRAPS
• Bass traps are acoustic energy
absorbers which are designed to
damp low frequency sound
energy with the goal of attaining a
flatter low frequency(LF) room
response by reducing LF
resonance in rooms.
• They are of two types: resonant
and porous absorbers.
• Resonant absorbers need to be
mechanically tuned to resonate in
sympathy with the frequencies
being absorbed while porous
absorbers do not resonate and
need not be tuned.
 FLOORING
• Ceramic tile is usually not recommended for the
flooring because sound waves would reverberate even
more with the wooden flooring.
• Adding rugs to the floor and acoustic tiles absorbs the
sound.
• Carpeted floors are the best option ,they prevent
excess reverberation around the room.
• Clear plastic curtains in sheet,MLV[mass loaded
vinyl],sound proofing foam are the other innovative
materials to control the noise level.
 BUILDING FORM AFFECT
• The sound that we hear in any room is a
combination of direct sound and the indirect
reflected sound.
• Reflected sound is necessary for music and
speech to sound natural, but too much can
rob your system of sound control.
• The two main ways to control reflected
sound are by absorbing or by diffusing these
reflections.

Standing Waves and Room Resonance modes

• A room having a pair of reflective surfaces
creates a phenomenon known as standing
waves.
• Standing waves distort the bass and mid-
range frequencies from 300 Hz on down.
 • When a music is played with a lot of bass in the room, you will noticed
that the bass sounds stronger near the walls, and in the corners. These are
specific types of standing waves which are called Room Resonance Modes.
• Formula for finding axial room resonance modes,

where, F – frequency of the resonance mode in HZ

1130 – speed of sound in ft./sec.
D – distance between two parallel surface.
ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF ACOUSTIC IN HOME-THEATRE
ADVANTAGE
• The easiest to install, longest lasting
• Absorb these sound waves, ensuring a pure acoustic experience.
• Acoustic emissions provide a direct measure of failure mechanisms in action.
• The method has:
• High sensitivity
• Real-time
• Non-invasive

DISADVANTAGE
• Operating environments are often very noisy, and the acoustic emission signals are
usually very weak. Thus, signal discrimination can be very difficult, yet extremely
important for successful applications.
• Can not be installed in small rooms
• if low quality materials in acoustic are used the performance decreases due to which
the potential of usage is shorter ,reducing life-span and one will have to replace it
more often.
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