Home theater speaker placement  Home theater system setup starts with your television as the focal point of the entire system. Because the primary job of a center channel speaker is to accurately reproduce mostly movie or TV program dialog, it will usually sound best placed horizontally directly above or below your television monitor.  Your left and right main front speakers belong at or near both sides of your TV screen.  (You won't be using the sound built into your TV monitor.)  Your 2 rear surround speakers will probably sound the best when mounted high on the walls to both sides of your home theater seating area on speaker stands.

Home theater subwoofer  The .1 part of a 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 digital surround sound system is the "low frequency effects".  This LFE channel is best handled by one or more powered subwoofers.  A sub usually sounds best when placed near the corner of your room or next to one of your front speakers.  Believe it or not, many home theater enthusiasts these days are going with TWO home theater subwoofers!

Home theater speaker wiring  To get the best home theater speaker performance possible, be sure to buy good quality speaker wire and subwoofer cable to connect the speaker system to your home theater receiver.

Once you have connected all the components of your system and powered it up, you can use an SPL meter along with your receiver's surround sound test tone to perfectly calibrate your speaker channel volume levels.