Home devices for listening to music, your favorite movies or series, as well as your radio programs have taken a radical turn in recent years. The sound bar or home theater are the most popular to use in conjunction with television. The most advisable thing is usually to bet on one of them, the one that best responds to your tastes and needs. Which is better? What advantages does one have over the other? Find out now.
Criteria for choosing a sound system
To achieve almost cinema sound in your living room, a home
theater is the answer. They are sound equipment that has evolved a lot in the
last decade, becoming more beautiful, easier to install and of course, more
powerful, also gaining in performance. The sound bar or the home cinema are the
most common equipment.
Experts in home equipment for the home coincide in pointing
out some advantages and needs that should guide the choice of a home cinema for
the home.
The size of the room
In order to fully enjoy the qualities of a home
theater-style sound system, it is important to have the space. The size of the
place where you are going to install it does matter a lot. You have to adapt
power to meters , as with the television screen when choosing it and its dimensions. The large and spacious
rooms - from 20 meters - are ideal to choose a complete and powerful home cinema where the sounds
and all their details can be truly appreciated.
There are minimum distances and centimeters recommended for
the installation of the different parts of the home cinema , different for each
model. It is important to respect them and consult them before buying the
device, measure your living room calmly and then buy accordingly. Keep in minds
that if you do not put the speakers in the places and at the recommended
distance, you will not get the cinema results you expect, so there is no point
in making an economic investment.
Installation space, a practical detail
Home cinemas are of different powers and sizes, but as a
general rule, in order to be complete and offer you really cinema sound , they
are made up of several pieces: a subwoofer and different speakers, at least
two, but the more you can install the better and the more authentic the sound
experience will be in your home.
Although the dimensions of the components of the home cinema
have been reduced a lot with the new technologies , do not be fooled, it needs
its real space. The subwoofer is a big box and you can't - or it wouldn't make
sense - to remove it from your home theater. It takes care of the overall
quality of the low-frequency sound, which is a must for enjoying the movies
with home theater sound. The speakers have to be in strategic points depending
on how the places from which you are going to watch television and hear the
sound are also distributed to create the surround effect for example.
Style and aesthetics, a personal touch
There is a wide variety of home theater models on the
market, including a wide price range and numerous designs . It is a detail that
must also be valued when choosing this type of device since they are elements
that become part of the aesthetics of the place where they are installed and it
is attractive that it also coordinates with the television .
You will easily find home cinema with curved and straight
lines, especially in black and / or with metallic details. For those who prefer
vintage style, look for equipment with touches of wood or as simple and simple
as possible if you want them to go unnoticed. In general, there are models in
which the speakers can be hung on the wall or placed on the floor with specific
brackets. A trick? If you have small children or pets, the best ones are those
that can be anchored to the wall and of course, choose systems without cables.
Other important details
Do not lose sight of whether you are going to opt for a home
cinema and you already have the television to which you are going to install
it, which must be compatible with it. It seems obvious, but it is not so much
if you take into account that in a very short time both screens and sound
devices have advanced a lot. It is easy that if you choose a state-of-the- art
home cinema , demand a similar TV or you will not be able to fully enjoy all
its qualities.
Although offering you a cinema sound in your favorite series
or movies is the main function of these equipment, value getting extras that
are common in home cinema. For example, it is common for them to have a
Bluetooth connection system , which also allows you to play sound that you have
stored on your mobile or tablet.
When is the soundbar the best option
If a complete set is too cumbersome for us, improving the
sound quality and listening experience with a sound bar is still a good idea.
If you have little space and little time to do a multi-element installation,
this is a great solution.
The sound bar is a very good idea for many homes, choose the
most appropriate for your case knowing its advantages and following the tips of
the experts.
• Improve
the sound . A sound bar will always improve the output audio from your
television screen. Although it is important that you are clear that the best
and most professional sound, the optimal sound and the one that allows you to
improve the most parameters is given by a home cinema. However, if due to
dimensions and other details or simply because you don't want such a special
sound or you don't need it, a sound bar is a very good idea.
• Quick and
easy installation . There is no choice but to recognize that the installation
of a sound bar is simpler and more comfortable than that of a home theater . To
start with, it usually has fewer elements, it can be just a bar, it needs,
therefore, always less space to install and less complexity to adjust and
synchronize.
• Versatility
. If you want to improve the sound on your television, but also when you play
the console or simply listen to your favorite radio programs, the sound bar is
your best option. Given its maximum simplicity, less size and weight along with
the ease of installation, your sound bar can be installed today in the living
room with the TV, tomorrow in the room of the game console and the next day, if
you go to your second residence, take it with you comfortably and put it on the
laptop. The spectrum of use and the mobility of a soundbar beat those of the
home cinema, without a doubt.
Both the sound bar and the home cinema are included as sound
devices that you can protect from any domestic accident with your MAPFRE Home
Insurance, do not forget to include them
in your policy, whatever your choice is to always enjoy them in perfect
condition.