I'm a newbie building a home theater room and need some help. My room will be 11'x13'x8' with hardwood floor, no windows. All walls/ceiling are plasterboard. Planned viewing is in the 11' direction. I'd like to make the wall behind the TV a half-wall, about 4' high. Behind that is another room 10' deeper and 15' wide. The half-wall is only to help the rooms feel open. Will this screw up my 7.1 surround? I'm more concerned with sound than aesthetics and will enclose the room if needed. Would appreciate any help, thanks.

I was thinking of doing a similar thing and am interested to read some comments.

If you're more worried about sound then closing the area would probably be best.

You can check out my thread to see an area with the back open. It has been a pain in the butt to try and place the rears of the 7.1 and I still haven't done it yet.

Sounds like it will come down to your preference on what you want to accomplish. Was telling someone in another thread that I got some halfwall ideas at spacements.com .... they have a few gallery pics

Pop up some floor plans for us to see.