Home Theater In a Bundle = Speaker System + Receiver
HTIB.com features both starter and complete home theater audio systems which include two or more speakers and a surround sound receiver. Home theater bundles are packaged and shipped to your home IN MULTIPLE LARGE AND HEAVY BOXES, which MAY or MAY NOT all be delivered together on the same day. Unless stated otherwise, you should assume that you will also need to separately supply or purchase appropriate speaker wire, subwoofer cable(s), and HDMI cable(s) to properly complete the setup and installation of your audio system and integrate it with your existing AV source components and television or projector.
Home Theater Is Better!
The simple fact that you have reached this site suggests that you appreciate better quality sound. The ultra-thin design of today’s beautiful 4K and 8K televisions leave little room for higher-quality speakers (many actually fire downward and/or backwards) and the required amplification, and the forward-firing speakers and amplifiers built into even the best ultra short throw projectors are not much better sounding than a small, lower-end sound bar.
Speaking of soundbars, you will not find any soundbar systems featured on the pages of HTIB.com, as most of them do not truly “deliver the goods” when it comes to high-performance sound — especially for music listening — in large part due to lack of stereo separation, but also because of smaller-sized speaker drivers. [Exceptions might be this or this.]
You also will not find any all-in-one “Home Theater In a Box” packages featured on the this website (although the domain name HomeTheaterInABox.com permanently URL redirects to HTIB.com), neither conventionally hard-wired systems [like this] nor so-called “wireless” systems [like this] as they are lacking both sound-wise and feature-wise. Unfortunately, the “wireless” surround sound systems inconveniently require that power cords for each speaker, plus the subwoofer, plus the transmitter be individually plugged into nearby AC outlets for power. That’s seven total power cords and outlets to contend with just for mediocre sound!
After selection and purchase, followed by proper in-home setup, installation, and room calibration, quality speakers connected to a modern surround sound receiver, plus your big screen television or projector and screen and source components, plus some quality, entertaining content to pump through it, all functions together as an integrated system to create a fun, immersive audio and visual experience to enjoy with family and friends in the safety and comfort of home, perhaps surpassing your local cinema!
Home Theater Is Beautiful!
I am not only referring to the physical and functional beauty of the individual speakers, subwoofers, and AV receivers themselves, or the TVs and projectors. It’s also much more than the amazing sound and image they produce. The most beautiful aspect of building a home theater system today is the flexibility of being able to set it up almost anywhere in your home that you prefer, and also make it as “complete” a system as you want. As long as you are connecting it to a large television or projector and screen, you can set it up in a living room, den, bedroom, basement, or even build a dedicated room. (You might even want to do some soundproofing.)
You can build and/or upgrade in increments if you wish, starting with just two speakers located to the left and right of your TV or projection screen, and a surround sound receiver. That is a “starter” 2.0 system, or a 2.1 system with the addition of a powered subwoofer to handle the deepest bass effects. Add a center channel speaker underneath the TV, projection screen, or ultra short throw projector for dialogue clarity. That is now a 3.0 system, or a 3.1 system if you add a subwoofer. Add a pair of rear surround speakers located to the sides of, or slightly behind, your seating area for off-screen surround effects. That is a 5.0 system, or a “complete” basic 5.1 system if you add a sub. Add a second subwoofer and you’ve got a 5.2 home theater audio system.
But, is 5.1 or 5.2 speaker surround sound truly complete in the current day? Today’s 7.2-channel home theater receivers allow you to expand your soundfield either vertically or horizontally. Configuring it as 5.1.2 or 5.2.2 lets you add upward-firing elevation speakers atop the front left and right speakers, or two height speakers mounted up high on the front wall, or even two overhead in-ceiling speakers to create a more immersive three-dimensional Dolby Atmos [YouTube video] and/or DTS:X [YouTube video] surround sound experience in your home. Alternatively, adding an extra pair of speakers in the very back of your room to set up 7.1 or 7.2 surround sound allows you to take full advantage of the lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks also found on many Blu-ray Discs. A 9.2-channel or more home theater receiver lets you expand from basic 5.1 or 5.2 surround vertically AND horizontally if you so desire.
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This page was last updated on March 22, 2025.