As some of you know I had to part with my first full HT build a couple months ago. Long story short, we sold the house and the buyer didn't want to fork over the cash for a custom home theater (duuuuuhhhhh?) so we packed it up and took it all with us. We've purchased land in Michigan and are just about to sign a contract with a home builder. Most importantly, I have a tentative floor plan for the basement space which will contain my next home theater!
The space I have set aside will be roughly 8'10" high by 14' wide by 22'4" long. Not by coincidence, these dimensions line up nicely with the so-called golden cuboid dimensions recommended by Cardas (here). Fortunately, ceiling height and stairway location provided the perfect space to fit room with a preferred dimensional ratio. The little wings on the interior wall have support columns in them (required to get the 14' width) and the door next to the bath/extra bedroom will likely be deleted. I have a few ideas for dealing with the two columns.
My planned setup will be similar to what I had previously. Two rows of seating, stadium style, 140" acoustically transparent 2.35:1 screen, 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos audio. My initial plan is to also use the Cardas speaker placement recommendations for a rectangular room (here), which would place the screen not quite 6ft from the front wall, giving me about 16ft long x 14ft wide of perceived finished space when it's done. I don't plan for the screen wall to be a baffle wall since it will place the speakers out into the room and away from the corners. It's all theory at the moment and I'll play with speaker and sub placement in the room before committing to a final layout. I'm not married to the Cardas layout but I see no reason to use it as a starting point. I also still plan to do acoustic treatment as needed.
I have some new ideas for lighting and general aesthetics of the room to come later but it will be a few months before I'll have a physical space to start playing with. I won't be buying many new components for the initial build since I was happy with my previous setup, so the majority of this build will be fine-tuning my setup and optimizing the space acoustically. And making it look totally rad, of course. Any and all questions, suggestions, criticism, etc. welcome at any time. Stay tuned for some sketches of my proposed layout when I get a chance to scribble a bit. Here we go!
The space I have set aside will be roughly 8'10" high by 14' wide by 22'4" long. Not by coincidence, these dimensions line up nicely with the so-called golden cuboid dimensions recommended by Cardas (here). Fortunately, ceiling height and stairway location provided the perfect space to fit room with a preferred dimensional ratio. The little wings on the interior wall have support columns in them (required to get the 14' width) and the door next to the bath/extra bedroom will likely be deleted. I have a few ideas for dealing with the two columns.
My planned setup will be similar to what I had previously. Two rows of seating, stadium style, 140" acoustically transparent 2.35:1 screen, 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos audio. My initial plan is to also use the Cardas speaker placement recommendations for a rectangular room (here), which would place the screen not quite 6ft from the front wall, giving me about 16ft long x 14ft wide of perceived finished space when it's done. I don't plan for the screen wall to be a baffle wall since it will place the speakers out into the room and away from the corners. It's all theory at the moment and I'll play with speaker and sub placement in the room before committing to a final layout. I'm not married to the Cardas layout but I see no reason to use it as a starting point. I also still plan to do acoustic treatment as needed.
I have some new ideas for lighting and general aesthetics of the room to come later but it will be a few months before I'll have a physical space to start playing with. I won't be buying many new components for the initial build since I was happy with my previous setup, so the majority of this build will be fine-tuning my setup and optimizing the space acoustically. And making it look totally rad, of course. Any and all questions, suggestions, criticism, etc. welcome at any time. Stay tuned for some sketches of my proposed layout when I get a chance to scribble a bit. Here we go!