What does each speaker do in a home theater setup?
The standard home theater setup consists of five to seven speakers and a subwoofer. The center channel speaker anchors the sound to the picture, and provides most of the dialogue and much of the special effects. The front left and right speakers deliver a wide soundstage, and work with your center channel speaker to reproduce on-screen action that moves to the left and the right, giving you a more realistic and exciting movie experience. The front speakers also act as the left and right stereo speakers when you listen to music. The surround speakers, usually mounted or placed behind your viewing position, help create an enveloping, three-dimensional soundfield by reproducing the surround effects in videos and some music recordings. Some home theater setups use an extra surround or two. These surround back speakers give you even more convincing wraparound sound. And lastly, the subwoofer reproduces the very low frequencies in the video soundtrack, from the low-rumbling of an explosion t
