www.dolby.com for speaker placement.
Stage and proscenium are personal choice.
My local lumber yard can order Lincoustic. They carry JM products, but Lincoustic was special order.
You projector will really dictate where it goes. Check various models you are interested in. Optoma has a good calculator on their site, even if you arent looking at one of their projectors, it will give you an idea of how things work. You put in the screen size, and projector model, and it will tell you the proper mounting distance, optimum seating distance and offset (difference between projector height and top of screen).
You need to figure out seating from screen distance, and where your front speakers will be to start to determine size. By this, I mean if the speakers will be on the sides, behind a false wall, or even behind a transparent screen. You also have to determine what screen ratio you prefer. Once you start making some of these decisions, people with much more knowledge than myself will start chiming in on more specific questions.
Insulate the walls.
You should also figure out where your equipment is going to live, and run conduit and your wiring before the installer closes up the walls. Running an extra empty conduit from your equipment area could help you out in the future.
Good luck.
Stage and proscenium are personal choice.
My local lumber yard can order Lincoustic. They carry JM products, but Lincoustic was special order.
You projector will really dictate where it goes. Check various models you are interested in. Optoma has a good calculator on their site, even if you arent looking at one of their projectors, it will give you an idea of how things work. You put in the screen size, and projector model, and it will tell you the proper mounting distance, optimum seating distance and offset (difference between projector height and top of screen).
You need to figure out seating from screen distance, and where your front speakers will be to start to determine size. By this, I mean if the speakers will be on the sides, behind a false wall, or even behind a transparent screen. You also have to determine what screen ratio you prefer. Once you start making some of these decisions, people with much more knowledge than myself will start chiming in on more specific questions.
Insulate the walls.
You should also figure out where your equipment is going to live, and run conduit and your wiring before the installer closes up the walls. Running an extra empty conduit from your equipment area could help you out in the future.
Good luck.
