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Hubby and I bought a home theatre thingy today. It has a DVD/CD/MP3/VCD/everything else player, plus six speakers. One is a subwoofer, four are the same size and small, and one is long and flat. I don't know what they're called. We bought this one.
The manual has no room diagrams, so we have no idea how to best set up the speakers and whatnot.
Um, help?
Anything else you need to know?
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Well, the large speaker seems more like a double one. And in that add it's called "center speaker", so I guess it should go on your TV or further up. The subwoofer usually goes under it, and the front/back speakers go two in front of the room (that's where the TV is) on either side of the room and in the back respectively. Do they have any way to be stuck to the wall? If not you should consider putting them on whatever furniture you have around the room. Edit: The more "in the corners of the room", the better.
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Corwin is right, and normally the rear speakers are supposed to go a distance behind you father than the distance to the front speakers (like if you sit 3 meters from the TV you should have the rear speakers more than 3 meters behind you) but hardly anyone has rooms that let them do that...
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They do conveniently have a hole thingy to hang on the wall, although I'm a little uncertain if it will work well since the small speakers have a rounded back. Elliptical, really. So it seems to me like they may swing sideways.
The manual is rather wanting. No proper inventory list, no wiring diagrams. Bah! Nothing to appease the one who reads the fine print!
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I used picture hangers tokeep mine pointing where I wanted them to, the rounded edges threw me at first too....
You can also put the subwoofer under or behind a couch....the closer it is to where you will usually be sitting the more dramatic the sounds from it will be.
We have it hooked up, and it plays - flawlessly - a DVD that the other DVD player had farting and coughing fits over. Sound is much much better - I can understand what's happening - and we don't have the two other speakers set up yet - the ones that go beside our couch.
Fahim is now talking of a plasma tv. But that's a save-up-for item in the distant future. Other things to get first.
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