Hear the Difference with Dolby Atmos For Your Home Theater
Dolby Atmos brings a 3-D audio experience when watching movies or TV in your Lafayette, LA home
It can be easy when setting up a home theater system to focus on your TV or projector screen at the expense of quality audio. Doing this is a mistake; while the visual component of a home theater is obviously important, it’s hard to stay engaged if you don’t have quality sound to accompany what you’re watching. And if you want the best sound possible when watching your favorite movies, there’s only one answer: Dolby Atmos. Here’s a quick overview of why you want Dolby Atmos for the home theater system in your Lafayette, LA living space.
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STANDARD SURROUND SOUND
Surround sound systems have been around long enough that most people understand the basic principles behind them, but just in case, let’s do a quick refresher.
Essentially, what surround sound aims to do is – go figure – surround you with sound in front, to the side of you and behind you, recreating the experience of watching a movie in a commercial theater setting. The way you do this is to place speakers in front of you, to the side of your seating and behind you. Your audio receiver then filters the sound of whatever you’re watching to these different channels, creating a feeling of being enveloped in sound as the action plays out on the screen.
THE DOLBY ATMOS DIFFERENCE
In some ways, the basics of Dolby Atmos systems mirror a traditional surround sound setup. You’re still placing speakers in multiple locations throughout your home theater, including to the side and behind you. Atmos systems incorporate more speakers than typical surround sound systems, including speakers mounted above you in the ceiling. What really makes the difference with Atmos, though, isn’t the number of speakers or how they’re placed. Instead, it’s the software that handles how sound is funneled to the different speakers.
As we just finished explaining, sound is funneled to different channels in a standard surround installation, but each channel is still made up of multiple elements that have been mixed together on the soundtrack of whatever you’re watching. (Soundtrack, in this case, refers to all of the sonic elements in a piece of media, not just the musical score or songs heard within that movie or TV show.)
Dolby Atmos systems work differently. Using specialized software, every sound and piece of dialogue is turned into a distinct audio object. These objects are then placed in a 3-D soundscape created by the various speakers around the room. This type of sound system may not sound like a major difference from what you’re used to, but you’ll hear and feel it in your home theater. Dolby Atmos creates a more realistic and immersive sonic experience to truly bring you into the middle of whatever’s happening on screen at the moment.
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