How to set up a home cinema is a question many people ask. For world-class performance, a skilled team of technicians are essential.
Today’s modern, integrated, and high-performance home cinemas are complex pieces of engineering that require the correct approaches to get the best results. from their abilities. Like servicing a high-performance car, achieving the best results requires the right knowledge and equipment. We select and install the correct components for your cinema; speakers, processing, amplification, projector/screen. Then the process of how to set up a home cinema can begin.
First we choose the correct crossover setting for the speakers and those who will be listening. Without getting overly technical, this means you need to set the level at which different speakers will deliver different frequencies. Some frequencies will come from the front, surround, and overhead speakers, while others will come from the subwoofers. The room, the equipment, and listening preferences determine the point at which the frequency range ‘crosses over’ from one to the other.
The next step is to have a good listen to the system. Having set up thousands of home cinema systems, our engineers will detect issues that need to be tweaked. One of the subsequent steps is to time-align the subwoofers. This ensures the sounds coming from these speakers reach the listener at exactly the same time, creating an immersive experience. We use ‘room correction’ software that utilises a sophisticated algorithm to measure how sound is performing inside the space. This software will correct performance to preferred parameters automatically. Our engineers use this equipment to improve performance, and then use their own senses to fine-tune the performance further. Our team will repeat this process several times until they are completely satisfied with the audio performance of the cinema.
How To Set Up A Home Cinema: The Image
Next, we move on to the picture performance. We use our experience and watch to identify any necessary adjustments. Sophisticated equipment is at our disposal to accurately measure the onscreen performance. Using this approach we make adjustments to the colour/contrast ratio to ensure the image is as it should be. The same process applies as with the audio: watch, adjust, watch again. In this way we ensure the performance matches the needs of the room and the customer.
How to set up a home cinema is a complex task, but one our team embraces with relish. Our decades of experience mean we can achieve a world-class performance every time.