The only number that matters to me are the one's after the $

Meanwhile I'm watching movies on my phone with a down-firing mono

Despite sounding good, this doesn't prevent neighbours noises from ruining your immersion.

To be completely honest, this might be one of my favorite channels ever...also, I want to set up a more surround sound system

A someone who used built-in speakers everywhere until about a month ago, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to get some good speakers. Even a small 2.0 setup will sound extraordinarily better.

Alternate title: "All the different ways you can make your neighbors hate you"

I almost thought you were serious about recommending the built-in speakers.

0:17 "The numbers Mason, what do they mean!"

[Screaming internally] Trust me, you are not alone on that

I work with surround sound for movies, finally an accurate video! The best part about 5.1 and up is the center channel. Having dialogue, foley, and effects all go into one channel frees up space in the rest for atmospheres and music and also helps set a solid backbone for the entire movie or episode. And in a bigger cinema where the left and right speakers are 20 meters apart, the sound is clearly and concisely coming from the center of the picture. Oh, and Dolby Atmos supports up to 128 full range channels and all mixes are compatible across different Atmos suites of all sizes!

This was informative! Now, let me go back to my mono channel sound on my cell phone.

During the quarantine, since my parents went no work and just spent time on Netflix, I bought a JBL Bar 5.1 so they can enjoy more on watching. But yet, they usually use the TV speakers and the soundbar only get used when I'm also watching. (screams internally)

After years of just using built-in TV speakers, I installed a 5.1.4 system. Never knew what I was missing.

Honestly, I'm pretty happy with my headphone setup.

Me a Student Amd Have No Intention Of Buying Home theater setup in next 5 years: hmmm intresting

Can't be more proud for having a Klipsch speaker sitting on the desk during this episode

Don't forget about one of the most important aspects of a surround sound experience... the physical watching/listening area. Most home designs don't give a damn about your movie watching experience. The placement of a proper TV and surround sound setup is usually less than an afterthought. Take Linus' home TV setup for example. His TV location, relative to all of the walls around it, is far from ideal. It's actually borderline criminal. Choosing where to place your home theater is just as important as choosing which components to include in it.

"7.1?" "5.1.2?" What is this, a Kingdom Hearts sequel?? **Cue laugh track**

5.1 means "Too expensive for me"

Can you make a video about soundbars vs 5.1 setups?

Remember when TVs came with good speakers?

Movie theatres... I too have heard the legends.

I miss having surround sound. I bought one that fried while under extended warranty, but had also become a discontinued model. I received store credit for it, but a new system was more than I wanted to spend at the time. Couple years later, and my 46" LCD TV started flickering. I used the store credit to buy a 55" LED. A year later I bought a 2.1 sound bar for a hundred bucks. It is sooo much better than the TV's speakers.

The nice part is that speakers just keeps on giving, I got my 5.1 system with a computer back in 2003, they work excellent on my x570 board with buildt in surround sound! :)

I'll stick with my 2.0 speakers

4:09 Thats the best option.

The first 5.1 system i had was in 1998. I connect it to a dvd player and watched "the matrix" on it. It was awesome to hear the dolby digital 5.1 sourrund sound :D. PLayed the JBL Speakers and Yamaha YST-SW 160 Subwoofer :D

Techquickie just be the best tech general channel be , giving general knowledge in just about every day to day thing, it's amazing how relatable and fresh the contents is as time evolves , kudos

Still running my Logitech Z-5500's for the past 10yrs, games that actually put effort into sound made it awesome to play.

I already knew this, just came to check that sweet rp 600m

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO. I’ve watched other and didn’t understand you make it easy

Perfect timing. Lately, I have been contemplating setting up a surround sound system for my gaming PC.

i like these newer videos..less hyperactivity from the hosts and more meaty information 😋

I ditched surround sound for a good stereo setup several years ago. I've never looked back. The times that my old and expensive surround setup made a difference I actually appreciated was few and far between.

Got a 7.1.4 mastering room at work, and with our consoles 3D panner you can automate a mono signal "node" spinning around you head moving up and down, its awesome

I build my own drivers and crossovers and all my own complete systems since 1991, this video is really entertaining!

I thought they were going to suggest headphones at the end.

Those look like really nice klipsche speakers

I'm so glad James is here to inform me properly

Usually two or more subwoofers is not for more sound but for more stable sound. As low frequencies bounce around the room it creates 'nodes' or areas of high amplitude and areas of low amplitude due to sound waves interfering with themselves. This means a different listening experience depending on where people are sitting. Two or more subwoofers can help flatten these fluctuations of volume around the room.

Oh I’ve got a 7.1 50mm surround sound headset

Enjoying this video with only one working headphone speaker

Great video thx , everything I wanted to know in 5 mn great channel !

The best! I subbed immediately 😂

Me: *Laughs in 7.1*

5 speakers, one sub. You're welcome.

I'm rocking a 5.2 system these days, listening to surround-mixed albums on SACD. My front channels are superb in stereo as well because they matter the most!

More sound content with James!! After the xtreme upgrade it seems like he knows whats up!

Fun fact, the .1 in 5.1 doesn't mean the separate subwoofer per se. It's called .1 because there wasn't enough bandwidth on surround tapes left for a full sixth speaker. They made a channel that only goes up to around 2000 Hz (a tenth of a normal signal), so the .1 actually originally stands for 10% of a normal speaker bandwidth

Warning: if you catch the Home Theater bug...you’re screwed and it’ll never let go as the quest for epic sound, a/v receivers and speaker setups will never end. 10/10 would recommend catching this bug.

Great video guys. That RP-600M is really beautiful, awesome speaker. Pro tip, reason why speakers like Klipsch, JBL, Electro Voice, QSC etc. have such fantastic clarity is due to their high efficiency horn/waveguide technology. Virtually all big commercial theaters use massive 2/3 or 4 way horns behind the screen which is why dialog is so clear and easy to hear. Horns have superior efficiency and require less power than conventional dynamic "box" speakers. They have far less distortion, superior dynamics and can play louder without any real hint of strain. I have owned just about every type of speaker design/tweeter design from some of the highest end makes and horn loaded or full horn designs just take the cake, especially for HT/Movie watching but also great with music too. Another benefit is since consumer AVRs don't have the greatest amplification built in you literally get more sound for your dollar vs poor efficiency conventional designs that use soft dome tweeters and the like. Concentric or Uni driver designs are also pretty efficient and have many of the benefits horns have; makes like KEF and Tannoy are known for those and they are nice alternatives for those whose ears don't "agree" with the classic cinema/theater big dynamics horn type sound. One of the best conventional dynamic speakers out there for my money is FOCAL with their beryllium tweeters which have horn like clarity and big dynamics but since they aren't very efficient (like B&Ws) they need proper big amplification to make them sing. In music studios you tend to see more conventional designs used like ATC/Genelec/Focal etc. and more JBL horn stuff for movie/film post facilities. For legit HT Klipsch is really hard to beat and their heritage line is incredible too. Keep up the great work guys.

You should check out 5.1 and even Atmos mixed music it is really a step above movies in surround. Tidal has a lot of good atmos mixed tracks that are worth taking a listen to.

9.0.2.1.0

This title is fully understated since you're explaining way more than just 5.1. They brought up height channels and Pro Logic, however videos like these often omit the calculated numbers for things like subwoofers use 1/3 bitrate of 1 channel, this why I divide 448 or 640 kbps by a rational 5.3 or 7.3 for the channel bitrate, then divide that number by 3 for the subwoofer bitrate, or companies inventing good/bad audio tricks for their own branded soundbars, among other things. This video covers a wide range of aspects and we can take their word for everything. I guess I'm critiquing this whole thing a bit. I may not be an audiophile but I can distinguish many types of sound.

It's the first time you teach me a new thing thank you♥️

Really helped me thanks

3:02 "Similair-ly"

I'm rocking 5.1 sound right now...

I've been using the same 5.1 set of Yamaha speakers since 2004... still kicking. It's hard to go back to stereo sound.

A 5.2 setup is pretty amazing!

I've known everything this video tries to teach me since i was 7 years old... yet i watch it 😂

Audio equipment's too expensive. I'll just stick with the speakers built into my TV.

I have a discrete 5.1 surround setup on my PC going through "real" (not desktop) speakers and amps. However, I have a hard time using headphones, because going from real 5.1 to headphones (even with surround virtualization) is really a shock. Even with an inexpensive Logitech 5.1 speaker system, discrete surround is REALLY nice! :)

I liked your shirt in the PIA ad-spot James!

I don't have the time to sit and watch movies enough to justify anything more than 2.1 which is what I currently have.

5.1 is great until you realize most of the content you watch is recorded in stereo :'(

This was much needed

4:20 "Screaming internally" - That's how I feel with all of the ridiculous and popular "soundbars" and especially folks who just use the TV speakers for a "cleaner" look with abysmal sound either way. Just like "more cowbell", you need "real, and more speakers" to make anything sound decent.

First

i got a Samsung 7.1.4 soundbar / surround setup and its dope af! Sounds amazing even at low quality!

Still rocking my original Logitech X530 5.1 surround for my PC and they still sound really good for the room!

You guys really ran out our ideas, didn’t you?

I use simple desktop speakers with sub and activate the virtual surround built into the TV. Works great.

Every time I see a video on audio I pine for the days of my 5.1. My favorite hobby.

James has such a chill life now; he doesn't have to write he just hosts prewritten Techquickie and Techlinked without needing to do any work.

The best thing I did was buying a soundbar. I prefer the sound from my soundbar compared to the TV inbuilt speakers, so I use my soundbar all the time. When I purchased mine years ago, there were also soundbars that you could buy additional speakers for and connect them together for true 5.1 surround sound. If I ever have to buy another soundbar or an additional one, that might be something I'd look at in the future.

This video got released just as I was looking for speakers. Wow

Hey guys can you make a video about tensor processing units (TPU)

"The numbers Mason! What do they mean?" Lol Knew all this but I had to watch to support my favorite tech team.

I've a Dolby Atmos Speaker Guide Setup and I found the 11.1.8 speaker setup.

Just 5.1? I have a full 7.2.4 setup. Gotta love true DolbyAtmos. And I'm not using a stupid fake sound bar. Physical speakers in each location, and my ceiling speakers are *actually* on the ceiling.

This guy is the best at LTT! Something about his voice!

Very informative 👌👌👌

5.1 has been around for over 20 years. It was really first achieved with DVD players and the discrete RCA outputs for a theater receiver that had those exact inputs for 5.1, which would be 6 individual cables. Optical and digital coax came out later so there was a 1 cable solution so long as your receiver could decode the signal into 5.1. Eventually this all turned into HDMI where audio and video connect on devices and decoding is standard. Sound bars are like compact receivers with speakers or kind of like jamming a cable into an old boombox and sound comes out of whatever speakers are there. Lol.

I feel like most people needed this information

Great vid. Never bothered to research what the numbers mean. Now I know.

Got a 7.1 and don't regret it especially with video games that supports it

It's great to set up audio, to get a superior and functionally enhanced sound experience.

Could have also specified that if multi-subwoofwr setups often times the subs are tasked ro do different things. One for example might handle low frequency sound while the other is explicitly only for rumbling. Or you may even have a vibrating motor in your couch which is also treated as a "subwoofer"

Tbh when the screen is a speaker I personally don’t think anything can beat that for pinpoint onscreen immersion. I just wish I could find a way to use it in tandem with my speaker setup.

the speaker is the Klipsch RP-600m its 800cad a pair.

Been fine with my 7.2 setup for a few years now.

Solved my confusion I had for ever (until now)

*Default windows come in 5.1 settings. Newbs will complaint why their COD coldwar cinematic have missing audio cues compare to headphones.*

I got a Pioneer VSX 1131 receiver a few years back for $150 on sale. Man that thing is nice, and hard to find a decent deal like that now, especially with all the lockdowns having people stay home and upgrade their stuff.

Techquicke vid idea: you explained why we don’t just make CPU’s bigger, but why not make them smaller but have lots of them?

Thanks bro

thank you ❤️🙏🏻

My TV is from 2008, back when they actually built real speakers into the panel. Now, they've figured out they can sell you a soundbar as well if they just make those speakers really bad.

I was always wondering that, but too lazy to search it up, thanks James