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Looks like it's the curtains for those windows.
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One piece of advice, not sure if any one suggested it yet.
Build in ventilation behind the wall unit that will hold your receiver. If the projector will be fully enclosed to in the ceiling, same thing applies. A few small vents with a fan should be enough to keep the equipment from over heating. I can't tell if your plans are to enclose all that behind a door. If it stays open as such now then you should be ok. Im assuming your going to have it behind a door so the lights of the devices does not interfere with watching movies.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Stay out of my head.
You should make a little opening video to roll before any movie is allowed to play on your system. Like the MGM lion but with your head 'shopped in instead of the lion, or the Tristar pegasus with your head like a pega-centaur (or the Columbia lady liberty-ish one might be good too). Like this guy:
mgm the real lion - YouTube
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Originally Posted by Doofy
I'll likely be going the DIY route on acoustic panels. I'm planning on "Superchunk" corner bass traps in the room's three usable corners, the underside of all of the soffits will get 1" Owens Corning 703 rigid fiberglass board, and the walls will have several acoustic panels made with 2" OC703.
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Two new circuits wired in from the main box, one for electronics and one for lights. All but two of the recessed lights are installed and all wiring is run to the switch box and is ready to be hooked up. I need to finish up some trim and repair some drywall and I'll be ready for paint. Then I can tear out the carpet, build the riser for the second row of seating and I'll be ready for carpet.
Then I'll finish off the screen wall and install some acoustic treatments. That should about do it...
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It looks promising, but I am reserving final judgement for the final product. Wont know if it will look good or cheap until then.
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I'm really impressed with all the planning this wiring and building must take. Home Depot must love you.
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Really looks like you're doing a fantastic job. Having just built a home theater myself a few years ago I know what I headache it can be to do it right. I know you said you were going to go the DIY route on the acoustic treatment but if I might suggest another route, I think you'll end up much happier in the long run.
There's a company called Primacoustic out of Canada that makes some of the finest room treatment available. They are expensive but their effectiveness is second to none. I invested almost $10k in room treatment from them and am really thrilled with the results. My room measures almost completely flat with quite a large sweet spot. The ceiling cloud we installed made a world of difference too!
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Laminar, when the thread started you had picked out a 7.2 audio system. Are you sticking with that?
What I'm thinking is while the room is still roughed out, you might allow for a 9.2 system in the future. Plot out the extra/revised locations, and pull all needed wiring.
Also, you could leave a location and outlet for a beer launching fridge.
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Originally Posted by kittonian
I invested almost $10k in room treatment from them and am really thrilled with the results.
10k in room treatment for a home-built theatre room? Sure it's important, but might possibly be more than Laminar has invested in the entire theatre room, top to bottom. Unless he's also sticking 10k of high-end audio equipment in there - and he's not - it would be ludicrous to spend anywhere near that kind of money on room treatment IMO. A grand or two, sure...at most.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I'll likely be going the DIY route on acoustic panels. I'm planning on "Superchunk" corner bass traps in the room's three usable corners, the underside of all of the soffits will get 1" Owens Corning 703 rigid fiberglass board, and the walls will have several acoustic panels made with 2" OC703.
Sounds like you've got it covered.
(No pun intended, but one came out anyway.)
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I'm hoping those treatments will help get rid of the bass dead zone in the center of my room. If not, I might have to get more drastic.
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Sorry, missed some of the important info at the beginning. You said the room is 22'x20'? That's a bit too square for even bass. No wonder you have a dead zone in the center, you probably have a wicked mode response going on and have exaggerated bass on the outside seating areas too. The traps and room treatments will probably help, but you might also need some EQ like the Behringer DSP1124 (@$100 from most places).
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Sorry, missed some of the important info at the beginning. You said the room is 22'x20'? That's a bit too square for even bass. No wonder you have a dead zone in the center, you probably have a wicked mode response going on and have exaggerated bass on the outside seating areas too. The traps and room treatments will probably help, but you might also need some EQ like the Behringer DSP1124 (@$100 from most places).
The full room is 19'x15', the false wall is about 18" off of the main wall. The first row of seating is 10' from the screen, which puts it about halfway between the front and rear walls, which from what I'm reading is not the ideal place for bass response. We'll see how much it changes with new carpet, bass treatments, and furniture.
But yes, I'm definitely getting the exaggerated bass around the outside of the room, most noticeable when standing directly under each soffit's front face.
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A suggestion for one set of your seats for good control. Much easier to deal with then remotes.
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I advise against touch-screens for home theater purposes. You want to be looking at the screen, not down at your armrest.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton
I advise against touch-screens for home theater purposes. You want to be looking at the screen, not down at your armrest.
Agreed.
For watching TV, you need at least physical buttons for volume, channel (including numbers), and guide navigation.
For watching movies you need physical buttons for volume, play, pause, forward, back, slow motion.
So with all those buttons, what's left other than source selection. I say get a Harmony remote from Logitech.
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Also, when the technology becomes obsolete or incompatible with whatever system you have, you now have a chair with an integrated piece of uselessness.
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Originally Posted by hayesk
Agreed.
For watching TV, you need at least physical buttons for volume, channel (including numbers), and guide navigation.
For watching movies you need physical buttons for volume, play, pause, forward, back, slow motion.
So with all those buttons, what's left other than source selection. I say get a Harmony remote from Logitech.
I agree, but make sure it can control the cursor too (I'm not familiar with Harmony remotes, do they control the cursor?). Hardware buttons are really great until there's that one thing you want to do that wasn't pre-planned for. Having cursor control is an easy catch-all, and you still don't have to look down to use it.
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Lighting installed and wired up.
No flash picture with screen lights on.
Recessed lighting, speaker holder, and new switches installed.
Remote power inputs for the projector and subs wired and installed.
Fresh wall paint.
Fresh ceiling paint still drying.
No flash.
Room cleaned up a bit.
No flash, movie mode with side lights at half and screen lights off.
Rope lighting in the soffits.
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You need a Star Trek style twin sliding doors that automatically open and close to enter the room that plays a swoosh sound out of a speaker
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Brilliant stuff.
I'd pick a warmer grey paint though. That blue-grey looks a bit battleship IMO.
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Looks good! Maybe he's got some nice curtains picked out that match that blue FA.
Re the doorway: A pocket door might give better sound/light insulation than a curtain, but have no idea how hard it would be or even if it would fit in with Lam's master plan.
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I thought I recognized these pics. ( I visit AVS.) It's looking good!
BTW you must have made some coin from the Kawasaki to afford this build!
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I probably broke even considering how much restoration cost. I'll call it a forced savings plan.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
10k in room treatment for a home-built theatre room? Sure it's important, but might possibly be more than Laminar has invested in the entire theatre room, top to bottom. Unless he's also sticking 10k of high-end audio equipment in there - and he's not - it would be ludicrous to spend anywhere near that kind of money on room treatment IMO. A grand or two, sure...at most.
I had no idea what his actual budget was so I was relaying my own recent experience. I think the gear total for ours was somewhere around $40k including the wiring.
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Have you considered glowing kittens for lighting treatment?
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Originally Posted by kittonian
I had no idea what his actual budget was so I was relaying my own recent experience. I think the gear total for ours was somewhere around $40k including the wiring.
Yes, clearly your gear was too expensive to bother reading this thread at all before talking about it. Or maybe you wouldn't be recommending "room treatment" that's probably double the cost of his entire project?
Moving on.
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Man, I wish I were as handy at DIY as you are Lammy. Nice job.
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Also love the dropped-soffits ceiling - hides the projector perfectly. Colour wouldn't be my choice but that's an easy fix down the road if you ever get bored of it. Question re: the audio setup - what's up with the dual subs? Hahaha, not overkill, or do you just love bass? :o
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Tip for Lammy with the subs: Put them where your chair is. Fire the system up, play some stuff. Move your head around in the vicinity of where you think they're going to live. Where your head is when it sounds best is where you should put them.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
Question re: the audio setup - what's up with the dual subs?
The original post shows he went for a 7 .2 sound system. There's also a 9.2 audio standard. Sounds like dual subs are the wave of the future.
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Originally Posted by reader50
The original post shows he went for a 7.2 sound system. There's also a 9.2 audio standard. Sounds like dual subs are the wave of the future.
and a pain in the ass. It's great when you can set them in the same corner, but in separate locations you often need some good EQ and traps to tame the spikes.
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Are shakers included in the 7.x numbering scheme?
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The first number is the number of speakers. The number after the period is the number of subs. They're not fully counted because they are not separate channels. Instead, the low frequencies are extracted from the real channels and rerouted to the subs. A hypothetical 5.4 system would have 5 speakers and 4 subs.
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
Also love the dropped-soffits ceiling - hides the projector perfectly. Colour wouldn't be my choice but that's an easy fix down the road if you ever get bored of it. Question re: the audio setup - what's up with the dual subs? Hahaha, not overkill, or do you just love bass? :o
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Tip for Lammy with the subs: Put them where your chair is. Fire the system up, play some stuff. Move your head around in the vicinity of where you think they're going to live. Where your head is when it sounds best is where you should put them.
Brilliant. I will be trying this.
Originally Posted by reader50
The original post shows he went for a 7.2 sound system. There's also a 9.2 audio standard. Sounds like dual subs are the wave of the future.
There's some arguing over what constitutes true 7.2 - "purists" say you have to have separate left and right sub channels for it to be called 7.2, otherwise it's just 7.1 with two subs. In my case, my receiver has dual sub outputs, but I believe they're identical signals.
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As a functional unit if you have space, not only will it allow for enough popcorn on demand when you have guests but the smell from it making in the room will add to the movie experience of a theater.
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I'm curious myself why the industry is going to multiple subs. Is it for more bass power, or can people actually tell where low frequencies come from? ie - so you need left and right sources.
I'd long thought we went to a separate subwoofer because people could not trace the source. So one good big woofer, and all the other speakers become more manageable (smaller, lighter).
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An engineer who can actually build things? My head just exploded!
Excellent work Laminar, soffit lighting is a nice touch and I love the 'stage' area under the projector screen. If you need to fly anyone out to Iowa and pay them handsomely to build some custom cabinetry I'm your man! Hehe, in all seriousness you seem to have a pretty solid grasp on carpentry and I'm sure that room is going to look amazing when it is done.
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Originally Posted by sek929
An If you need to fly anyone out to Iowa and pay them handsomely to build some custom cabinetry I'm your man!
Also, if you have a zombie problem.
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Your theater room is bigger than my whole flat here in Hong Kong.
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Originally Posted by Andy8
Your theater room is bigger than my whole flat here in Hong Kong.
...and his entire house costs...4 times less....
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