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Home theater
furniture
includes all furniture needed for home theater. Be sure to
think through the layout of your home theater room and the components of
your entire audio/video home theater entertainment system BEFORE you buy home theater furniture!
Also, don't forget to plan for enough
comfortable home
theater seating furniture.
Depending on the size and layout of
your home theater room, you might want to install an entire row or more of
connected home theater reclining seats with built-in cup holders! |
A multiple-piece big
screen entertainment center could enclose a rear
projection TV, as well as hold several audio/video components (such
as a home
theater receiver, HDTV
receiver, DVD player, etc) and
possibly even 3 of the surround sound speakers of your home theater
system. Your center channel speaker usually fits best directly
above or below your TV screen. It's primary job is reproducing
on-screen movie dialog. Smaller left and right bookshelf-size or
small cube speakers can be placed on shelves to the left and right of
your television. Don't enclose your subwoofer inside your home
theater furniture!
In many home theater rooms, you can get great sound by locating a powered
subwoofer to the left or right side of your entertainment center, or
near the corner of the room. If you don't have enough room for a
large projection TV and wall unit, a television
stand works well for tube TVs as well as smaller flat panel
televisions. Today's lighter, sleeker LCD and DLP
TVs also look really nice on a matching TV stand, especially if you
don't have lots of home theater components. Keep in mind that you
will also need space for a center channel speaker. Left and right floor standing speakers
can safely be placed to the sides of your TV
stand if they are magnetically-shielded. If your main left and
right and/or your rear left and right surround sound speakers will be smaller
bookshelf speakers, you might have to invest in speaker
stands to elevate them to the proper listening level, unless they will
be mounted directly on the wall. |