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My wife and I are moving to a new house, and will be creating a new theater room!
In our current house, we have a theater room that looks like this:
It has a 120" 16:9 screen (104"W x 58" high, bottom of screen is 21" from floor).
Distance from our eyeballs at primary viewing location to the screen is 149" and our eyeballs are 36" from the ground.
Here is a 'first pass' at the new house and new theater room:
All the exterior walls are already in place. So I can divide up the interior in any way I see fit.
We like our current theater room screen size as it relates to our current viewing distance.
Based on the distance to the screen in this proposed room (15' 3"), it looks like a 200" 16:9 screen will yield about the same 'feel' screen size to viewing distance wise as our current theater room.
I imagine the projector could sit in the little AV room at the bottom right. On top of a utility rack, with a hole in the wall for the projector light to shine into the theater room and onto the screen, kind of like a real theater. This way the projector noise can be kept at a bare minimum. I can't think of any downsides to this idea. Are there any?
The current space has a concrete floor, but of course I'll be putting in carpet in the new theater room, but does sound/subwoofer work better if the floor is wood? Should I have the whole room raised up a bit on a wood floor?
I plan on having the second row on a riser up a bit higher.
I still have a LOT of things to figure out, like type of construction for the walls, acoustical treatments and all the gear (speakers, projector, AVR, subwoofer, etc. etc)
I'd love to get some initial feedback as to my first pass on the theatre layout. Anyone see any big issues or problems? Should the room dimensions be different for better sound?
Thanks!
My wife and I are moving to a new house, and will be creating a new theater room!
In our current house, we have a theater room that looks like this:


It has a 120" 16:9 screen (104"W x 58" high, bottom of screen is 21" from floor).
Distance from our eyeballs at primary viewing location to the screen is 149" and our eyeballs are 36" from the ground.
Here is a 'first pass' at the new house and new theater room:

All the exterior walls are already in place. So I can divide up the interior in any way I see fit.
We like our current theater room screen size as it relates to our current viewing distance.
Based on the distance to the screen in this proposed room (15' 3"), it looks like a 200" 16:9 screen will yield about the same 'feel' screen size to viewing distance wise as our current theater room.
I imagine the projector could sit in the little AV room at the bottom right. On top of a utility rack, with a hole in the wall for the projector light to shine into the theater room and onto the screen, kind of like a real theater. This way the projector noise can be kept at a bare minimum. I can't think of any downsides to this idea. Are there any?
The current space has a concrete floor, but of course I'll be putting in carpet in the new theater room, but does sound/subwoofer work better if the floor is wood? Should I have the whole room raised up a bit on a wood floor?
I plan on having the second row on a riser up a bit higher.
I still have a LOT of things to figure out, like type of construction for the walls, acoustical treatments and all the gear (speakers, projector, AVR, subwoofer, etc. etc)
I'd love to get some initial feedback as to my first pass on the theatre layout. Anyone see any big issues or problems? Should the room dimensions be different for better sound?
Thanks!