A fake wall can be acoustically transparent if you just use fabric covered frames. Use hinged panels to hide the gear. Not sure if you will ever get that area "pressurized" with the open back.
Construction suggestions for intergrating equipmentrack in a bafflewall
Hello!
I am looking for input on how to redo my front wall in my smallish theatre.
The room is a “media” room with an open floorplan.
I would like to split up the “office” area and the “theater” area and paint the roof dark on the theater area.
I would like to ingrate my equipment in the front wall, with a "fake" wall and hide the front speakers/subs/ equipment rack all in the front wall.
I have noticed that BIGmouthinDC has had quite a few of these, but I did not find one where the equipment is integrated in the front wall.
The reason I want to put the equipment here is, because all 10 of my power sockets are in the front wall.
The construction of the house is as follows:
Wooden house Walls construction are drywall and wooden studs with 250 mm outers shell and 50 mm mineral wool isolation.
I do have acousticall drywall up and that has helped quite a bit allready with the acoustics.
Floor as 50mm floating concrete floor. The room is on the secondstory and open plan above the kitchen
The two "areas" upstairs are divided by 2 halfwall that provide the rails for the stairs.
I have decide to build bafflewall/fakewall on the frontwall. This can hide all speakers/subs/ equipment inside the frontwall.
I am planning to use a 100/106" 16:9 screen.
The listening are has a depth of 3 meters, so space is rather limited.
Biggest issues has been pretty challenging for me to get my room pressurised, even with 18”inch subs.
I plan to darken the white roof with some dark paint, ect as that effects my contrast quite a bit.
My first question:
I have planned to cover up the acoustical frontwall with the some normal drywall to double it up and add some weight to the frontwall. Is this worth it to do or am I wasting time?
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I am looking for input on how to redo my front wall in my smallish theatre.
The room is a “media” room with an open floorplan.
I would like to split up the “office” area and the “theater” area and paint the roof dark on the theater area.
I would like to ingrate my equipment in the front wall, with a "fake" wall and hide the front speakers/subs/ equipment rack all in the front wall.
I have noticed that BIGmouthinDC has had quite a few of these, but I did not find one where the equipment is integrated in the front wall.
The reason I want to put the equipment here is, because all 10 of my power sockets are in the front wall.
The construction of the house is as follows:
Wooden house Walls construction are drywall and wooden studs with 250 mm outers shell and 50 mm mineral wool isolation.
I do have acousticall drywall up and that has helped quite a bit allready with the acoustics.
Floor as 50mm floating concrete floor. The room is on the secondstory and open plan above the kitchen
The two "areas" upstairs are divided by 2 halfwall that provide the rails for the stairs.
I have decide to build bafflewall/fakewall on the frontwall. This can hide all speakers/subs/ equipment inside the frontwall.
I am planning to use a 100/106" 16:9 screen.
The listening are has a depth of 3 meters, so space is rather limited.
Biggest issues has been pretty challenging for me to get my room pressurised, even with 18”inch subs.
I plan to darken the white roof with some dark paint, ect as that effects my contrast quite a bit.
My first question:
I have planned to cover up the acoustical frontwall with the some normal drywall to double it up and add some weight to the frontwall. Is this worth it to do or am I wasting time?
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Quick update:
I removed most of the current hometheater, so I could start patching up the walls and build the rear seperator
The goal of this repaint is to darken the home theater area and separate it from the "office area". Got some pricequotes for the systemrack that will go underneath the screen.
Leaning towards plywood, but MDF is quite a bit cheaper. Will probably paint all of this with some black structure paint. So not sure if it really matters.
One issue has been to see how I could separate these to wisely, but I think I have a good solution for this while still maintaining the open space.
I was thinking the sidewalls could a darkgrey(like graphite)
This could also have a slight warmer toned than the rest of the room. Lets see, once I get the "divider" up.
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I removed most of the current hometheater, so I could start patching up the walls and build the rear seperator
The goal of this repaint is to darken the home theater area and separate it from the "office area". Got some pricequotes for the systemrack that will go underneath the screen.
Leaning towards plywood, but MDF is quite a bit cheaper. Will probably paint all of this with some black structure paint. So not sure if it really matters.
One issue has been to see how I could separate these to wisely, but I think I have a good solution for this while still maintaining the open space.
I was thinking the sidewalls could a darkgrey(like graphite)
This could also have a slight warmer toned than the rest of the room. Lets see, once I get the "divider" up.
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