Ok---been lurking here for years. Now getting serious and actually close to finishing my theater. Heres the catch....its in an outbuilding/barn/playhouse behind our house. Its a neat building with a large playroom/gymnasium. The theater will be in the loft that overlooks the play area. The theater is 20 feet wide by 30 ft deep. The first 20 ft of the loft will be theater, with a bar gathering area in the back 10 ft. Jason from AVS did my prewire when I was very ignorant. Now nearly two years later and I know a lot more (but still learning) and Im doing most of the finish work myself.
Heres the dilemma: the loft is open to the gym below. Roughly 18 of the 30 ft of wall are open to below. Now I know the audiophiles are going to freak, but it is a cool thing to see. Hopefully these pics I post show up.
I dont care about limiting sound in the sense that its a separate building so I dont care about sound getting into the gym. We wont be playing hoops and watching movies simultaneously. I am very concerned when watching movies about echo bouncing back from the gym. So--Id like to be able to close off the opening during movie watching (I dont think it will matter much while watching sports as I likely wont be cranking the sound). Ive got some thoughts but would like to see what the forum thinks.
Thanks in advance....heres the pics to help explain:
Tony
Heres the dilemma: the loft is open to the gym below. Roughly 18 of the 30 ft of wall are open to below. Now I know the audiophiles are going to freak, but it is a cool thing to see. Hopefully these pics I post show up.
I dont care about limiting sound in the sense that its a separate building so I dont care about sound getting into the gym. We wont be playing hoops and watching movies simultaneously. I am very concerned when watching movies about echo bouncing back from the gym. So--Id like to be able to close off the opening during movie watching (I dont think it will matter much while watching sports as I likely wont be cranking the sound). Ive got some thoughts but would like to see what the forum thinks.
Thanks in advance....heres the pics to help explain:



Tony