Arrange the speakers and their wires before connecting anything. This process is known as "blocking", and it helps you ensure that you'll be able to optimize your speaker placement without having to stretch out wires, move furniture, and so on. Place the subwoofer near the center of the home theater. The subwoofer is omnidirectional sound, which means you will achieve similar results no matter where the subwoofer is placed. Many people like to place it towards the front of the configuration so that it is easily connected to the receiver.
Although subwoofers are omnidirectional, placing them against walls and corners will amplify the bass, making it difficult to control. Place the front speakers on each side of the TV. If the speakers are marked as "left" and "right", make sure that they're on the correct side as per their manual's instruction. Front speakers should be placed the same distance from either side of the TV e.
Angle the front speakers towards the audience. Each speaker should be angled in slightly so that it points directly toward the center of the seating area. You should be able to "draw" a symmetrical triangle between the two speakers and the center of the seating area. If you can raise your front speakers to ear level, you will notice a marked difference in sound quality.
If you're setting up a 2. Place the center channel speaker above or below the TV. The center channel bridges the gap between the left and right speaker.
It helps when sound pans from left to right, and keeps dialog synced with moving mouths on the screen. Do not place the center channel behind the TV, or you will not be able to hear it.
Place the surround channel speakers to the side of the viewing area. Your two surround speakers should be placed on either side of the viewing area, pointed directly at the audience. You can place them slightly behind the viewer if you aren't using 7.
The surround channel speakers are what give the effect of sound happening around the viewer. They do not transmit as much sound as the front speakers, but they enhance the action on the TV by enveloping the viewer. Raise the surround channel speakers. Your surround speakers should be placed about two feet above ear level and angled down slightly so that they point at the audience.
If you are setting up a 5. Place the back channel speakers behind the viewing area. Try to place the two back channel speakers as close to each other as possible; this creates a bubble of sound around the audience.
The back channel speakers should be the same height as the surround speakers. Part 3. Place your receiver near your TV. The receiver must be close enough to both the TV and a power source that you can adequately plug it into both. Your receiver may also need plenty of room to vent heat, so don't lock it in a cabinet. Examine how your speakers connect. Most surround sound systems have ports for each speaker that you simply plug the appropriate connector into.
Some older systems have clips that you plug bare speaker wire into. To accomplish this, you'll need to strip some of the wire away with wire cutters and then clip them into place on the back of the speaker.
Run wire from each speaker to the receiver. Do everything you can to hide your wires as you run them, as doing so will prevent people or animals from accidentally tripping on them and pulling your speakers. If you can, run the wires under the carpet or through the wall. Make sure to leave some slack at each end to keep the connection from becoming stressed.
Connect the speakers to each other. I can only select Stereo output. Neither using the default MS driver nor any other trick from above did change this. This is an issue that will never be resolved for a few reasons. It's impossible from a purely technical perspective. Here's why: Current PC Games aren't like movies, which contain audio in multiple formats, such as early implementations of Dolby Digital and DTS, which are both compressed Bit-Stream based audio formats designed to be transmitted via Optical Digital.
Optical accepts the older compressed versions of these formats, but not the lossless True HD versions. As a result, the surround sound audio becomes traditional 2. It can also send that data via HDMI in a compressed Bit-stream audio file through HDMI that an optical cable can read due to how the audio is packaged on a game disc or film, even in a far more compressed Netflix or Amazon streaming format. Also, to offset these costs, companies like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo build these technologies into their consoles.
Everything then has discrete 5. Despite it being compressed via Bit-stream Optical Digital, it sound amazingly crystal clear. The Optical Switch is a rotary dial, and the only low tech part of my home theater setup. It comes with a short Optical cable attached to it that goes into the single optical port on my older suround sound receiver. It would still be nice for Nvidia to license Dolby Live or DTS Connect, but at this point, I believe it will never happen due to the aforementioned points, refusal to pay ongoing licensing fees, and the very nature of how PC Games use raw, uncompressed HD Audio.
One other point is, they assume most users with current GPUs probably have modern, uncompressed HDMI audio surround sound receivers, or traditional analog surround speakers individually plugged into s motherboard sound-card to avoid decompressing raw audio. It outputs films in 5. This is regardless if one is using optical or an HDMI 2.
Same problems occur, unless one is using one of the Dolby Atmos or DTS:X apps and is passing the signal into a legitimately compatible device via HDMI as those apps enable selectable driver level support but for only those formats.
Any Solutions? Why is this still a thing? Waiting for support from Nvidia. My problem is different but likely related. Booth left and right channels are mixed together.
I have checked the settings in Nvidia control panel and windows audio. When I do the speaker test in windows audio configuration, each speaker plays individually as it should. Awesome that this is a thing. Set up PC in livingroom, and am now disappointed with lack of software support for a very simple process. My video card is a ti. My laptop has a 4k screen and HDR support is enabled on it in windows. Then I still only see the TV and have no stereo support.
However I now have no video. This bypasses the ARC integration, but it also removes all output from my receiver. Will these drivers ever be fixed. I shouldn't need to unhook my receiver from the rest of my system just to get surround sound working! Never will be. I don't have a sony receiver. How is my post not related to this thread it's the same issue, still not resolved 8 years later? This tells you how many speaker connections are on the back of the unit and whether it will process 5. In fact, these days, you will also see receivers that support 9.
However, a 7. You may also come across a receiver that says it supports 7. You might think a 7. It sends the same LFE track to both subwoofers.
Well, the extra subwoofer can be helpful to reinforce the bass sound in your room — especially in larger rooms. It is pretty common for long bass waveforms to cancel each other out in various parts of the room. You can compensate for this by placing a second subwoofer in a different part of the room, which can help to even out the bass sound.
You can learn more about the difference between 5. There is also another more detailed article on 5. Finally, there is the main AV receiver buying guide, which gives tips and reviews of the best surround sound receivers in Hopefully, this article has given you a better idea of how to set up surround sound in your home theater system. If you want some quick and easy answers, here are some common questions about setting up surround sound. The main thing you need for surround sound is an audio system that supports multichannel audio.
Most sound systems are stereo, with two speakers. However, for surround sound, your speaker system will need at least five speakers. The main ways of getting multichannel sound are buying an AV receiver, an all-in-one home theater system, or a soundbar system that supports surround sound.
If you want to connect your TV to a surround sound system, your TV needs to have an audio output. This might be an AV receiver, an all-in-one home theater system or a soundbar system. For a step-by-step guide, go to how to connect speakers to your TV in 5 easy steps.
Many TVs have optical or coaxial digital audio outputs, while older televisions may only have a stereo analog output. Whichever type your TV has, you will be able to connect this audio output into a surround sound speaker system. Insert the other end of the cable into any HDMI input on the back of your surround sound receiver.
Press the video selector button on the TV remote control repeatedly until the video signal from the cable box displays on your television set. James Clark began his career in
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