Jamis' theater thread! - Page 26

Jamis

I thought of building similar shelves for my garage and decided to just buy them instead. I went with gorilla racks.

http://gorillarack.com/raptor/

I built similar shelves last year for my garage since my shed isn't built yet either. I did it similar to how you show. I bolted the back 2x4 to the wall with lag bolts and the front is supported by 2x4 running floor to top shelf and bolted to the outside of the "ladder". I used 3/4 plywood and they are more than strong enough. I have several large boxes on each shelf and some have gallons of typical household products (cleaners, extra paint, etc).

BTW so you need the shelf on the bottom? Can you not just use the floor?

Sounds like fun! I'm jealous!

Jamis something must be wrong, I haven't received my ticket yet... Or will it be at will call?

So you know I have to ask, let's see a pic of the tickets!

Read your whole thread, very very nice- Though I don't have a Basement in the Hi-Rise House I do have a room on ground floor I want to use- have started a thread-- I have just one question how did you decided on a straight vs a curved screen. What is the advantage to using the curved over the straight.
Looks like the largest I could fit is 100" but 90 is probably more realistic.

Jamis

I have about $600 in the shelving but they can be dismantled in about 5 minutes and moved. That was one of the reasons for not building them as I wanted to be able to move them if I ever needed to

Well I did not get my ticket either. Must have been mishandled by the USPS.

So since I missed it how was the "big premier"?

Regards,

RTROSE

I know you said that your screen couldn't be bigger but have you ever felt your music and speakers needed to be upgraded. As have tried a lot of box speakers and find them well lacking in quality sound and very tiring to listen to.

Way cool! Thanks for posting the link. Will definitely use in the future.

Don't you love the web???? You can find anything! Those "tickets" are awesome and you could even put in "Free Beer Limit 2" on the tickets!

Regards,

RTROSE

Hi Jamis, first off, beautiful theater! Just spent about an hour reading through the posts. I did not see a response to how your sound was affected by the addition of the acoustic panels behind the screen wall. Did you notice any difference?

Could you give me a sense of cost for that single wall? I have a similar size back wall.

Thanks!

Ya, when I built my front wall, and after talking with a couple of different engineers, I put up an AT screen with 4" of acoustical panels covering the entire front wall. Made a huge difference in the acoustics of my room, and increased the localization of sound orgins for a much better overall sound experience.

It did require me to completely recalibrate my theater, though, but worth all the time.

All of the shelves in my basement are built in a similar way, with the exception that my shelves are not OSB, but rather left over rough cut lumber from my family's saw mill. They will last you a long time and you'll never have to worry about weight limitations.

My front wall is 15' wide by 7' tall. I went with OC703 2" sheets, and I used 6 4'x8' sheets (One pack was this size, so it worked out). I then purchased enough black GOM material (the same you would use to cover the wall panels) and covered the entire works.

The OC cost me $300 for the pack of 6, 4'x8'x2" sheets.
The Gom cost me $7/yard, and I needed roughly 9 yards to cover the entire wall.

Back wall? I don't think you need to treat the entire back wall. I only treated my back wall from the ear height up, leaving space around the surround speakers. That seems to be enough and meets my needs. The bass traps in the rear corners handle the low frequencies that tend to get caught behind my chairs.

I'm mostly a Whiskey Drinker myself, but one cannot steer away from JW Blue. That is the best. Ice cubes aren't even worthy of it. I've also been enjoying a bottle of Elija Criag 18yr single barrel. good stuff, indeed.

I have a 96" basement, so I built mine deep enough to put a normal sized plastic bin completely into the shelf, so mine are about 8' tall, 30" deep, and 16' long (well, one section, I have another 8' and I'm building another 10' section in a couple of weeks). My first shelf is about 2 1/2" off the floor to make sure it was level, and then I have two more shelves above that. Works very well. The cats use it as a playground