Home Theater
A Wireless Home Theater or Entertainment system can be used to describe something as basic as a set of wireless surround sound speakers – to an advanced solution that incorporates wireless home networking – and there’s a lot in between. Let’s explore some of the available wireless options for your home theater system: Wireless Speakers The most common wireless product available for home theater is wireless surround sound speakers. Don’t, however, let the term “wireless” mislead you. For a speaker to function properly, it must have two types of signals. First, the speaker needs to have access to an audio signal, the music or movie soundtrack (via electrical impulses). Second, the speaker must have a physical connection to an amplifier (powered by battery or AC power outlet) to actually produce the sound. In other words, though you’ve eliminated the long wires that would typically connect from the signal source, such as a stereo or home theater receiver, in order for it to actually produce sound; you still need to connect the “wireless” speaker to its own power source. In the current market, wireless speaker technology can be purchased in an “all-in-one” home theater-in-a-box system, but Neosonik? has developed a complete high-end home theater system concept that uses wireless technology for all of its major components: Pre-amp /Processor, Speakers and Video Display. Surround Sound The applications of surround sound have grown tremendously. It no longer encompasses just movies. Digital TV broadcasts and high-fidelity music, too, has evolved to take advantage of the dramatically intensified experience that multi-channel audio can provide. Both literally and figuratively, surround sound adds a vibrant, new dimension to home entertainment.
There are so many noteworthy advantages you don’t want to overlook . . . so let GTS get you up to speed:
- Surround for movies For most surround systems, the primary objective is to replicate, as closely as possible, the traditional brick & mortar cinema experience within the comfort of your own home (minus the crying babies and rude patrons with cell phones, of course). The most common surround formats for movies are:
- 5.1-channel movie formats
- 6.1-channel “extended surround” formats
- 7.1-channel surround
- HDTV surround sound That’s right – HD isn’t just for your eyes – it’s also for your ears! The visual advantages of HDTV are so “easy to see,” that it’s easy to forget that HDTV offers even more improvement over our current TV viewing experience. HDTV can broadcast riveting 5.1-channel Dolby Digital surround sound. So now the news, your favorite prime-time shows, concerts and sporting events can benefit from the enhanced realism of Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
- Surround for music Enough about movies – let us not forget that multichannel audio offers the promise of a greatly enhanced listening experience for music, as well. While there are music discs producing both the Dolby Digital and DTS technologies detailed in the section above, the most thrilling advances in multichannel music come courtesy of two high-resolution surround formats dedicated solely to musical applications: 1) Super Audio CD (SACD) or 2) DVD-Audio
- Hybrid surround solutions As enthusiasm for home theater has spread, more and more people are replacing their old 2-channel stereo systems with full multichannel systems. Hybrid surround solutions expand the usage options of multichannel systems to enhance the experience of stereo music, analog TV broadcasts and other 2-channel media.