First off, I greatly appreciate anyone reading this and providing feedback. This community is nothing short of sublime. I've tried to be brief and to the point.
Captured below are two proposed layouts for the space in the basement that is 15x20x7'4" Tall. The room will be multi-purpose as I wish to have a 2 channel room as well as a 7.2 theater. That being said, all of the 2 channel gear will be on the front stage and the theater gear will be in a rack elsewhere in the theater.
I already have the two channel gear (Von Schweikert towers) though I am changing amps so there will be two Rogue Audio M-150 tube monoblocks on the stage.
There are three "issues" with the space:
1. There is a drain cleanout near the bottom wall but I can hide it in the wall.
2. There is a drain pipe (green circle in the middle of the room). I'm having a plumber move that into the wall in the middle (near main I beam support for house running width-wise)
3. The main HVAC supply trunks run along the bottom of the drawings. They come out 3 1/2' wide x almost a foot deep.
Proposal A - Deep
This was the original layout that I came up with for this second go around. The main thing that irks me is the asymmetry in the room with the HVAC soffit that I'll have to build in (it can't be moved). I can't mirror it on the other side because that's where the entrance is because then the entry door(s) would have to be cut to 6' high which is undesirable. Entering from the rear means entering on the riser which again causes a potential height problem. I also don't have a spot for the subs in the front though they could go in the rear. Yet, I have to stash the rack somewhere as I don't want to rob space from the surrounding entertaining space.
Proposal B - Wide
This dawned on me just today and it is growing on me. The HVAC "Soffit" can sort of look deliberate, and I can now neatly tuck the rack into the side storage area on the left. I'm not sure which seating that I will get, so I wonder if I could squeeze in two rows to have seating for 8 or 10. It's really not necessary to have that many (family of 3-4) so the bar top in the rear may be enough.
Thoughts/comments?
Captured below are two proposed layouts for the space in the basement that is 15x20x7'4" Tall. The room will be multi-purpose as I wish to have a 2 channel room as well as a 7.2 theater. That being said, all of the 2 channel gear will be on the front stage and the theater gear will be in a rack elsewhere in the theater.
I already have the two channel gear (Von Schweikert towers) though I am changing amps so there will be two Rogue Audio M-150 tube monoblocks on the stage.
There are three "issues" with the space:
1. There is a drain cleanout near the bottom wall but I can hide it in the wall.
2. There is a drain pipe (green circle in the middle of the room). I'm having a plumber move that into the wall in the middle (near main I beam support for house running width-wise)
3. The main HVAC supply trunks run along the bottom of the drawings. They come out 3 1/2' wide x almost a foot deep.
Proposal A - Deep
This was the original layout that I came up with for this second go around. The main thing that irks me is the asymmetry in the room with the HVAC soffit that I'll have to build in (it can't be moved). I can't mirror it on the other side because that's where the entrance is because then the entry door(s) would have to be cut to 6' high which is undesirable. Entering from the rear means entering on the riser which again causes a potential height problem. I also don't have a spot for the subs in the front though they could go in the rear. Yet, I have to stash the rack somewhere as I don't want to rob space from the surrounding entertaining space.
Proposal B - Wide
This dawned on me just today and it is growing on me. The HVAC "Soffit" can sort of look deliberate, and I can now neatly tuck the rack into the side storage area on the left. I'm not sure which seating that I will get, so I wonder if I could squeeze in two rows to have seating for 8 or 10. It's really not necessary to have that many (family of 3-4) so the bar top in the rear may be enough.
Thoughts/comments?