Best Room in the House

"Pretty Much Finished" Pics!







Popcorn Hour - Movie Jukebox



Anthem ARC Speaker Graphs



Equipment List

Sim2 C3X1080 Projector
Panamorph UH480 Anamorphic Lens
SMX Proline 150" Wide 2:35 AT Screen
Paradigm Reference 100s v5's for LCR
Paradigm Reference ADP-590 v5 for Surrounds
Paradigm Reference 10's v5 for Rears
SVS PC13-Ultra Subwoofer
Anthem AVM50v Pre Pro
Anthem MCA50 Power Amp for surrounds and rears
Anthem MCA30 Power Amp for LCR
Oppo BDP-83 Blu Ray Player
Panamax 5300PM
Harmony 890
Roku Player
Popcorn Hour A110
HP M9500 HTPC


unRAID Movie Sever - 32TB of Storage!:
Norco 4220 case
SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 R Sata Cards
Corsair 750HX PSU
Corsair 4gb ddr3 Ram
Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Processor
SUPERMICRO MBD-C2SBX Mobo
Noctua NF-R8 Raised-Blade design and SSO Bearing Fans
Scythe Kaze-Jyuni SY1225SL12H 120x25mm 1600 rpm 3pin 33 dBA 88.11CFM Fans

Acoustic Treatment:
Behind False Wall:
2" Linacoustic with 10" bass traps in corners

All Around Room:
1" Linacoustic Panels Covered in Black GOM FR701 (Floor to Ceiling side and rear walls)


Still left to do:
2nd row of seats?


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Original Post:



We just built a new house and now we're finishing the basement which is where my new theater is going. The dedicated room finished space will be 14.5x21.5. It will have a stage with a raised platform for seating, fluted columns, suspended crown with rope lighting, sconces and the whole bit - I can't wait!

My inspiration for my new theater is this pic:

And now for the pics - I'll take more as it progresses.

Just finished the pre wire on it and the contractor just finished the stage!






Oh and we're doing a hidden door to enter into the room that mimics a ticket booth. My inspiration for that is this pic:



We drywall next week!

Just insulated today for better soundproofing - hopefully stocking drywall tomorrow!

Oh and I also ended up running a whole new set of speaker cable to each of the 7 speakers. I was afraid if something happened to one I'd atleast have a backup. That and I ran 16 gauge to the fronts and with all the jogging around the romex it ended up being like 40-50 foot runs each. So I ran a new set of 14AWG everywhere just to be safe. And then on the projector, I thought I'd do the same, so I ran 2 hdmi's, one component, and two cat5's. Here's hoping the drywallers don't mess up my wires or forget to pull them out

Thank you for the info! The lumber issue I am not sure about, but it is set about an inch or so away from all exterior walls, but it does of course touch the concrete floor. And we're doing double drywall, in addition to the insulation, but that will most likely be it. Believe it or not, my last theater had neither, no insulation and no double drywall. Sound did carry though, nothing horrible, just when I had it up loud. So hopefully on this it will be a little better.

I do appreciate the help and criticism..good or bad

And yeah I know about the niche problem. It's more of a aesthetics thing for me. In the old theater I had in-wall speakers - I opted to go with the paradigms on the recommendation from a friend instead of the in-walls.

When he found out about the niches I'm putting them in he started talking about why put a box inside of a box. I realize it's not the best scenario, but I hope this is atleast as good as my old crappy in-wall speakers. I am not the most highly sensitive listener, so I'm not sure I would even be able to tell.


I just read about it today - do you think it's worth it?

Thanks,
Shawn

Yes only planning on one row...for now. It currently bowes towards the screen. I attached a picture of it..

Glad something is right!!!!

Thank you for the info and the help. If you see anything else or can recommend any other tips please let me know.

Ah yes the sub problem. Well we didn't want the sub sitting in the front of the room and couldn't figure out how to hide it well, so I ran two prewires - one on the back wall with a long enough cord to go anywhere on the back wall. And another one on the long side wall opposite of the entrance.

Anyone know of a good acoustic panel? Do they help block sound from going to other rooms of the house, or only make the sound better in the theater?

Thanks for the info. Do hanging curtains on side/back help as well? And I'm painting the walls black and trim gold - I use eggshell on all my other walls and semi gloss on my trim, but in the theater, should I use flat? And where/how do you do those star ceilings?

Just one row on the riser for now, but may do another on there too. I measured and there is room for two rows (just not two rows of berkline recliners). Eventually I may do a couch or club chairs in front of the riser. I wish I had a bigger room and probably would have made the riser straight instead of bowed. What sucks is the bowed was actually more expensive from my contractor. And my moronic self set the curve the wrong way Oh well, someday maybe I'll have a 3.0 version..if my wife doesn't kill me before then

Now you guys have me thinking. I'm pretty much the only one that's gonna use this theater except for my wife sometimes with me. But now I wondering what I would do if I did want to add another row. Work it work with my current setup. It seems two rows on the platform is gonna be pretty tight. It's about 10 feet deep. Maybe I should:

1) Have him rip out the bow and just leave it a straight edge (so I could fit one row on and in front of the riser. Probably the easiest fix, but maybe won't look the best?

2) Have him remove the bow and cut into the square and make the bow go the way it was supposed to? Probably the best fix, but the most work and cost.

Thanks

Thank you javadoc and BigMouth! So BigMouth, your saying to extend the platform a couple feet more towards the screen, and then on top of that platform add a second platform bowed the correct way? I gotta see if my contractor is gonna kill me or not If he is or if it is prohibitively too expensive I may just trim back the platform. What is a good depth for each platform (given my space), like 6 feet? And then on the center channel - they just started drywalling darn it Anyway, so try to move it up to just under the top of the stage?

Didn't see this part, yes too late drywall is up and this would kill my budget and timeline. I should have posted all my plans on here before I started the build

Oh don't tell me that! I wanted a 133" screen and everybody from friends to salesmen to "experts" all talked me out of it as they said it was too big for that size room and my projector wasn't bright enough for it, which is why I settled on 119".

Yes it does look small in these pictures. My screen viewable size is 58" x 104". What you see framed flat is 110" x 64". I actually installed it and the projector at the framing stage to see if it's gonna work and it worked. Not saying the image size worked, just the throw distance, screen alignment etc. My theater chairs were "planned" to go about 1 foot from the edge of the platform curve. So that would put my 'main' row of seating somewhere about 12-13 feet back from the screen. I do agree a bigger screen is better though