| Surely, you're not
going to buy entertainment center furniture for holding just your big
screen TV. Besides your television, you will probably
also need space for a DVD player, digital satellite or cable
box, and home
theater receiver, as well as several of your home
theater speakers. A basic home theater surround
sound system usually consists of 6 or more speakers.
Depending on the size of your particular speaker system and room
layout, at least your center channel speaker, and possibly your
left and right speakers can be placed onto shelves in your
entertainment center.
This
Encore Home Entertainment Center Furniture
is ready for any type of rear projection television-- floor
model or tabletop. The expandable console fits most LCD or
DLP televisions from 43" to
70" diagonal screen size. Five different widths of center
channel or subwoofer speaker cloth panels are included. The
brown cherry finish complements a wide range of other finishes
you may have in your room to help create an eclectic atmosphere.
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The center channel speaker of your
home theater system is primarily responsible for dialog, so it
can sit on top of your television. If you plan on placing
bookshelf speakers or smaller satellite speakers directly on the
shelves to the left and right sides of your rear
projection TV, be sure to buy 2 open piers. (Remote
controls can operate your home theater components from behind
the glass, but your speakers need open air.) If you don't want your main
speakers sitting on the shelf, you've got several options.
You could buy floor standing
speakers. You could place
bookshelf speakers on speaker
stands, as long they aren't going to be
knocked over by humans and pets. Perhaps you could even
install in-wall
speakers or ceiling
speakers for a truly customized, built-in look. (Just
be sure that the entertainment center furniture won't block the
speakers.)
A powered
subwoofer will probably sound its best either right next to
the entertainment center or near the corner of the room.
Experiment a bit with placement, but do not enclose the
subwoofer inside either pier!
Don't forget that unless you've
got a home
theater system with wireless rear speakers, you'll also have
to run speaker wire to
rear/surround sound speakers to take full advantage of
multi-channel digital surround sound effects.
We also highly recommend that
you plug the AC power cords of your entire audio video system
into a Monster Power Center. |
