This Home Theatre Guide will prove to be the salvation for most people who are fortunate enough to have had read it.
Several years ago I build a significant home with a separate billiard room and a dedicated room for a home theatre. I even had movie theatre style draw-curtains installed on either side and across the top on the end wall, and also purchased deluxe leather reclining couches and arm-chairs. All ready to go, or so I thought.
After making a few preliminary enquiries at both a department store and a dedicated TV/Audio/Home Theatre outlet, I suddenly realized that I knew nothing regarding how to set up a home theatre. I did not know whether I should use a rear-projection, ceiling-projection and screen, or a large television. I had no idea that there was 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 audio, fixed or retracting screens, marble or ceramic speakers, DTS or THX, amplifier headroom, speaker cables like Canare/Vampire/TMC/Museaus, etc., digital signal processing, equalization, acoustics, Dolby digital and DTS decoders, DTS-ES, Dolby pro-logic 11x, extended definition speakers, calibration, dialogue enhancers, projector systems such as CRT, LCD, DLP & LCos, aspect ratio, DXP, DCI, CSS, progressive scan, time-aligned speaker, and so it goes, on and on.
I was totally overwhelmed and found myself both unable to tell retailers what I wanted, and unwilling to be told what I needed. Confusion now reigns, and a couple of years go by, and I still had an LCD television on a cabinet in lieu of my much wanted home theatre system.
Then at university one day I was having morning tea with Alphonso Soosay, the author of this Guide and my good friend, when I told him of my dilemma. He then advised me on all the options and eventually, some weeks later, suggested that I read his manuscript entitled “Home Theatre Guide” and edit in my free time.
Isn’t life strange?
During this process, to my utter amazement, I not only gained an insight, but some significant knowledge, of the world of home theatres. I now felt confident enough and even capable, to design my own home theatre, and install it ……….. albeit two years later than intended.
I cannot recommend this Guide highly enough to both those who know little or nothing, as I did, or those who know something but would like to know more about designing and installing their own stunning home theatre, enabling themselves to be totally enthralled and enveloped by a ‘whiz/bang/u-beaut/super-duper ……hang on to your seats’, virtual audio-visual cinematic experience.
John Ross
Ex-academic (Edith Cowan University & Perth Institute of Business & Technology) Now part-time academic staff.
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