The AENIMA Cinema

Hello all! After many years of using my current equipment in an open finished basement arrangement and several months of reading these forums, I've decided to partition the room and build a dedicated audio and HT room. Being a TOOL fan and having to disassemble, box, and relocate everything to other parts of the house, hence "flush it all away", I came up with the AENIMA Cinema. I will post pics and answer questions as the teardown and rebuild progresses. And I'll have questions for the experts as well.

YaboTech

Me either, but I love the technical precision of their music and I had ton of crap: sectional, tables, lamps, computers, etc. to get rid of before I could start. Hmmm, maybe after I get through the initial build, I will incorporate some Tool imagery.

bmwracer3, that name did cross my mind, but I bet its already trademarked in San Fran.

W00lly, AENIMA was released in 1996. Tool's music reminds me of Yes in their early years and King Crimson. Does that put me in the old folks club?

Well I'm officially a member of the old folks club acccording to W00lly. Was the Yes show "In the Round" with the revolving stage?

I've spent the last two days on the destruction. The room looks like the Grinch made an earlier than normal visit with cables and wires hanging from the drop ceiling. I'm moving as much as possible out of the basement to the upstairs floor. The 2ch speakers and projector in a corner of the master bedroom. 106" 16x9 screen behind a dresser in another bedroom. 125 albums in a corner of the dining room and 600 CD's in the office/small bedroom. My wife loves me very much, so far.

Unfortunately, I didn't take any prior to disassembling everything. I'd been planning this for many months, reading the forums,etc. I kept putting it off until last weekend and finally decided "screw it", If I don't do it now, it aint gonna happen and started disconnecting everything. Basically, I pushed myself over the edge of no return. Pics? I'll post some of the room later today.

Hi, Vcook. What font did you use to create the actual title?

Front shot of room were a fully functional stereo and 7.1 theater was operational less than a week ago Opposite corner shot with I beam support that will disappear in new wall Sewer drop limits current ceiling height to 7'6" and dryer vent access will probably require a trap door in the ceiling for access. HVAC duct is attached to the I beam that intersects the middle of the room. Also notice unistrut attached to underside of beam and floor joist to hang crt projector. I've given the ceiling issues; sewer, I beam, HVAC duct a lot of thought and many hours researching the forums for work arounds. RISC clips and hat channel then drop down to frame out HVAC duct then back to the clips for the back side of the beam. I've read that wreaks havoc on high end audio listening versus a constant height ceiling. Maybe clips behind the I beam to raise the ceiling for the back seat riser. I'm leaning toward double top plate framing and running 2x8 across the theater room for the DD & GG. Basically room within a room construction for as much decoupling as possible. All comments and suggestions welcome.

Bruuce, thanks for the key sequence. Anyway to rename the thread without starting a new one?