Choosing Better Home Speakers

There may not quite be a million different home speakers for you to choose from as you start putting together your home theater system, but there are so many options that it may feel that way as you start to do your research.

Audio systems can have many components to them, standing on the floor, sitting on stands, mounted on walls, even hanging from ceilings. How are you going to choose among them, or be able to tell which ones would work best in your home theater?

One advantage of floor standing home speakers, aside from space saving features, is that several different types of speakers can be part of the same cabinet. So you might have a subwoofer for the lowest frequencies, a mid-range speaker, and a tweeter for the high frequencies, all together.

Compact size speakers tend to be the best mid-range home theater systems deals, also combining one or two woofers with a tweeter. To get a full sound, though, you'd still need to add a good subwoofer.

In-wall systems get mixed reviews, because the wall cavity can affect the sound, and most walls were not designed to handle such vibrations.

Which home speakers you choose will clearly be determined, in part, by your actual theater design. If you have a smaller space, then you may require floor standing speakers, whereas several smaller cabinet speakers on pedestals might have more room to spread out in a larger space.

You can help narrow down how many choices you have to wade through if you first decide on which shape and size of speaker will best fit your home theater.

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