what is good to use for home theater sound deadening?

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Caleb B

My family is thinking about moving into a new house with an unfinised basement, but we plan on finishing it. We want to make it partially a home theater type room, with a nice sound system. What would be some good ideas for insulating the ceiling or something so the bass doesn't rattle the whole house?

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Room acoustics is a bit of a black art. You seal off the sheatrock to prevent high-frequency from leaking out. But you need WEIGHT to keep the bass in the room.

This can involve putting spacers and a second layer of sheetrock, Dow Corning has special fiberglass and special sheat rock for sound deadening, etc.

Saddly - I dont know of a good book to recommend. You may have to consult a acoustics expert on what to use.

How do you connect a tv to a home theatre stereo system?

james

I have a 32" magnavox LCD tv and I just bought an RCA rt2770 home theatre system and I have no idea how to set up the system to play the sounds from the tv through the system. Same with an xbox to the system.

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Depends on the inputs & outputs you have on both. You should have optical audio on both. Buy an optical audio cable and connect it from the TV optical audio Out to the optical audio IN to the receiver. Connect the xbox to the tv.
If you have HDMI connections then use those instead.

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