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Straightforward answers to basic questions about home-theater audio setup and optimization

October 30th, 2008 -- by Robert Harley
Source: The Perfect Vision

Avoid large areas of bare parallel surfaces, which create “flutter echo,” heard as a pinging that hangs in the air after you clap your hands. Flutter echo reduces intelligibility and adds a fatiguing hardness to the sound. A hanging rug works wonders in reducing flutter echo. Remember that you don’t have to treat both parallel surfaces, just one. Scattering the absorbing material (several small rugs) is preferable to one large absorbent surface.

Comments

albert (not verified) -- Sun, 12/21/2008 - 16:22

First time here so hope it's "in the ballark"
 
Am wanting to use my left/right stereo speakers(audio system) as the cornerstone of a H-T system, the latter connected to a receiver.
Is there any problem connecting these L-R speakers to the H-T receiver while also being wired to my audio amplifier? Only one system to be used at a time!!
Thanks for any input here.
AGS
 

Eli47 (not verified) -- Thu, 03/12/2009 - 18:32

You will damage the amplifiers if you connect both to the same speakers, EVEN if only one is powered on at any time.
what you need is an "Amplifier Switching" unit, which will switch between both amplifiers to the pair of speakers.

MSH (not verified) -- Sat, 06/06/2009 - 11:16

We have an older Infinity speaker system and it sounds fine in some ways but I would like to replace the front and center speakers for better music quality and better quality of the dialog. Is there a problem mixing the two systems. These are husband's speakers and he doesn't seem to want to replace the whole set.