| You have just acquired your brand new home | | | | various locations. Time is the most vital aspect in |
| cinema theater system, spending not too little. | | | | surround sound since it can determine how sound |
| There is great picture, a superb speaker, amazing | | | | reaches our ears and then our senses in general. |
| speakers and you are ready for the final touch, | | | | Another problem is interference. The source of |
| to start watching your favourite films; connect | | | | the interference in each system is according to |
| the rear channel surround speakers. Not so | | | | the technology used. |
| amazing and great, is it? And all the wires all over | | | | Different systems use different ways to avoid |
| the place will definitely make you regret buying | | | | interference. For example, Bluetooth believes that |
| your home theater. Well, here is when wireless | | | | when the signal gets interference it will sense it |
| comes along. Not so fast... There are a few | | | | and simply change the frequency. Wi-Fi also |
| aspects which you haven't though that will most | | | | believes that it can solve the interference issues |
| probably cause some unpleasantness when you | | | | by shifting channels. These products, however, |
| connect wireless to surround sound. | | | | have limited potential because of the 802.11 |
| One of them is the time lag. There is a required | | | | chipsets and the protocol they follow. |
| time for the transmission and processing of the | | | | Infrared or IR technology is used for wireless |
| sound from the rear speakers to the front | | | | surround. It has the potential of more than 100 |
| speakers. In order to generate the signal, transmit | | | | Mbps and that is why it has been very prevalent. |
| it to the speaker, decode it and at the end | | | | The defect is that it needs a direct line of sight |
| amplify it from the speakers is a certain process. | | | | (LOS) and whenever this connections is not |
| For you to enjoy surround sound there must be | | | | achieved the signal is lost along with the sound. |
| a latency in processing, to prevent the case | | | | Moreover, you may need to face the problem of |
| where the sound comes in different time from | | | | power. The rear speakers will most probably need |
| the front and rear speakers. And that is the case | | | | power source if they receive the signal without |
| because you usually have the rear channels | | | | any wires. And if the non-existence of wires was |
| nearer to the viewer. To avert this situation | | | | the main point at first then this means trouble. |
| systems like Dolby Digital and Dolby Surround Pro | | | | Powercast uses a technology that can provide |
| Logic enforce a certain delay of milliseconds for | | | | with power wireless devices but doesn't have the |
| the different surround sound channels. | | | | ability to support wider needs, like these of |
| It is vital that when you hear the sound to cannot | | | | surround channels. |
| say exactly where the source of the sound is | | | | It of great importance to read the attributes |
| placed. This creates an illusion that gives depth to | | | | carefully when buying a device. You need to |
| the sound field. And for that reason, engineers | | | | make sure that when it says wireless they |
| use balance controls to imitate sounds across the | | | | actually mean it and have solved the above |
| sound field so that we pick out sounds from | | | | issues. |