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Home Theater Audio

High-caliber home theater audio can be expensive, but is well worth the expense to the audiophile. In order to reproduce true “movie theater” quality sound, a quality receiver or amplifier and a full array of speakers is required. This is especially true for those that want full surround sound.

The first thing everyone should know about home theater audio is that a receiver and an amplifier are not the same thing. A receiver is a combination of amplifier and radio tuner, and allows multiple components to be connected as well. An amplifier is made to do one job, provide clear, clean power for a high quality speaker system.

Speakers are also essential to a home theater audio system. For those wanting to build a system that mimics those found in most movie theaters, surround sound equipment is the ideal. However, quality theater speaker systems can be purchased for less money, and requiring less planned layout.