Calibrating your home theater audio is essential for achieving optimal sound quality. Properly calibrated audio will make movies, music, and other media sound their best.
It’s not difficult to calibrate your home theater audio, but it does require some patience and knowledge of basic audio concepts.
The first step to calibrating your home theater audio system is to connect all of the components together. This includes the television, DVD or Blu-Ray player, amplifier, speakers, and any other components that are part of the system. Refer to your user manual for specific instructions on how to connect each component.
Once everything is connected, it’s time to set up the sound levels. Most modern home theater systems have an automatic calibration feature which takes care of this for you.
All you need to do is follow the on-screen instructions and wait for the system to finish calibrating itself. If your system does not have this feature, or you prefer to manually adjust the settings yourself, then there are a few basic steps you need to take.
Adjusting Volume Levels
The first step is adjusting the volume levels of all of the speakers in your system. You want each speaker to be at roughly equal volume levels relative to each other. Most modern receivers have a built-in test tone generator that can help with this process by playing a series of tones through each speaker in turn so you can adjust them accordingly.
Balancing The Subwoofer
Next you need to balance out the subwoofer with the other speakers in your system. The subwoofer should be adjusted so that it doesn’t overpower or underpower the other speakers in your system. This helps ensure that all frequencies are reproduced accurately across all speakers.
Setting The Crossover Frequency
Finally, you’ll need to set the crossover frequency on your receiver or amplifier so that low frequencies are sent only to your subwoofer and high frequencies are sent only to your main speakers.
Calibrating a home theater audio system can be intimidating at first but with a little bit of patience and understanding of basic audio concepts it doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Once everything is connected and properly balanced you should be able enjoy high quality sound from all of your media sources with minimal effort required from you!