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Summary: How to choose the right rear speakers for your home theater; get expert tips and advice on hooking up video and audio equipment for home entertainment systems in this free instructional video.
Reggie Hayes has researching and setting up home theater systems since 1995. He owned a mobile disc jockey business for nine years and studied under the guidance of trained...read more
"Hello, I'm Reggie Hayes here with Expert Village. Now we're talking about choosing a rear speaker for your home entertainment system. Now remember we said that this room that we're sitting here is about 12 feet across? Okay. So we've chosen a smaller rear speaker right here because number one, we've got a small room and number two, because of our room constraints we have to put the speaker close to the couch. Now you don't want a big speaker here because you don't want the rear sound to be dominating over any other size speaker. So in this case we've chosen to go with a small speaker. But if you've got a bigger room, and you've got a lot further distances across a speaker like this, remember this one we thought we might use as a main speaker in this little room? Well then in a much larger room, this one would probably be a better candidate for a rear speaker. Now the reason is it has a greater, a bigger cone on it and it can push more air. Remember in our audio segment we covered that? Well that's why sometimes home-theater-in-a-box systems, now we're not bashing them, they're fine. But if you're trying to go for a true well-balanced system sometimes a home-theater-in-a-box doesn't take these things into consideration. So if you're really trying to go for that really nice, clean, well-balanced home theater system choosing the right rear speaker will definitely help you achieve that goal. Now let's talk about the subwoofer next."
eHow Article: Choosing Rear Speakers for a Home Theater