* FOR NEW HOMEOWNERS
Different brands and models of HTS will take up different amount of space in your home. If you are shifting into a new home, bring along your floor plan and clarify with the technical staff from your intended HTS supplier. Tell him where you intend tosite the HTS, and ask for advice on how much space to allow for ventilation, wiring, and optimum placement of components. Of course, much depends on how willing you are to give priority to your HTS placement.
The shape and size of your home, How to Concep for Home Theatre System (HTS) the type and quantity of furniture and furnishing, the location of windows etc., will all affect the video and audio outputs. Do include some sound-absorbing items to improve the acoustics e.g. carpets, thick curtains,bookshelves,thick cushions etc. Avoid placing the video system where you expect glare. Electrical dimmers will help you set the right lighting levels to create the desired viewing and listening ambience.
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It would be ideal if you can dedicate a sufficiently big spare room for your HTS, but if this is not possible, discuss with your interior designer and show him/her the updated floor plan. Quote the dimensions and colours of your main HTS components. Outline the other considerations mentioned in this section and request your interiod designer to factor them into the designs. It may or may not involve designing custom-built cabinets to house the various system components.
Bose (a renowned name in United States and represented by Atlas Hi-Fi Pte Ltd Since 1970 in Singapore), for example, has a superior product design thet does away with the headaches on the placement of the system components. With Bose's breaktrough in miniaturisation, HOME INTERTAINMENT their system are amply showcased in their really small loudspeakers, matched by an ultra-slim 'Music Center' (Bose's classy and practical alternative to typically bulky A/V receivers, each housing a CD player and a FM/AM Tuner with full funcionality of conventional A/V receivers despite its slim dimensions). With the bulkiest item the acoutimass bass module at only 36H x 59W x 19D cm, imagine how unobtrusive the system can be; offering fabulous adaptability to your desire interior designs.
When the HTS is delivered, ensure the placement and wiring follow the orignal plan. When the intial tunning is done, you achieve your objective of having an optimised HTS that blends seamlessly with your overall decor scheme.
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* VENTILATION
Heat can degrade the performance of electronic components and shorten their lives, so prover ventilation is a major concern. Keep a reasonable space between adjoining components to aid the airflow. Not all parts within a component's housing are solidly shielded from each other and from other nearby components. This can results in signal interference and lower the sound quality. This inter-component spacing may subtly influence the soud quality for the better.
Amplifiers draw air from underneath their housing and exhaust it at the top, so don't obstruct their tops and bottoms. The large and more powerful a reciever or separate power amplifiers, the more that they will produce, so provide more airspace around them to avoid an automatic shut-off triggered by their thermal sensors when temperatures get too high.
Many ready-made or made-to-measure cabinets fit a HTS snugly, and if the room is air-conditioned, ventilation should not be a problem. With totally enclosed cabinets or racks, you might want to install a small and low-noise exhaust fan.
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* ACCESS TO REAR-PANELS
Open racks allow easy access to the rear-panelconnections of components, but require discipline to keep them dust-free and their wiring neat looking. The next accasion when you need to reach for those rear-panel connections is probably to add a new component or to replace an existing one.
Custom-made cabinets allow for neat storage of accessories and playback media like CDs, lasediscs etc. However , a major rewiring job will cause problems though. But this scenario is unliely if you plan your HTS placement properly.
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