For a full theater experience, your home audio is just as important as your home video setup. Speaker type and placement, room acoustics, surround sound… all of these things combine to give you a dynamic sound set to match your beautiful 1080p flat screen TV. But there are other things involved in pulling out the best possible sound from your media besides just the obvious speaker hardware. Keep your eyes peeled for Blu-Ray and DVD discs and players that are compatible with THX certification.
THX, or Tomlinson Holman’s Experiment, is a type of mastering process that the manufacturers of discs and players can use to get the true-to-the-director’s vision of quality, big budget audio you know and love. Your home theater will sound like the real movie theater if you are able to set up a system that plays THX certified movies. The high-fidelity THX sound, coupled with your 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound speaker layout, will make your next movie experience larger-than-life.
