So my theater is probably 75% complete, and so I think it's time to document the construction and development of the project here. I have received so much advise and information from the people here at HTS, and hopefully this construction thread can offer something to those just getting started. I waited to do this because the theater was part of a larger beast, that being the development of our entire basement, including a couple bedrooms, a bathroom, craft room and large family room. I have done most of the work myself being that construction is my occupation, and so work and progress went slow and steady. Looking back now, I wish that I had been more intentional about taking pictures. Unfortunately I don't have many.
The theater is basically 20 x 20, as you'll see on the plan, and fully dedicated. The plan shows the Peerless subs on the side walls for now. The absence of doors seems to let a lot of bass frequency out of the room, and these placements work good temporarily. Once the doors are installed, I plan to move them to the front wall under the screen. This will facilitate the Horn loaded Trio12 placement as shown.
Eqiupment list is as follows:
panasonic pt-ae 4000u
Onkyo tx-sr608 receiver
Yamaha ax330 - driving a trial sonosub( no name 15" driver)
Kenwood kr-v7030 - driving the peerless sls sealed units
Polk RTi 10 front left & right
Polk RTi 10 surround
Polk LSi C center
Two Peerless SLS 10" in sealed enclosures
PS3 and a dell HTPC
I insulated the frost walls ( concrete behind them) with normal batt insulation. Any wall touching the adjacent rooms was insulated with roxul batts. The ceiling was insulated with roxul batts, and the drywall on the ceiling is a single layer of 5/8ths firegaurd with green glue to the joists. This view is from the family room through the theater doors to the screen wall on the far side.
This is the screen wall roughed in.
I wired the room for 9.3 surround, and later when I acquired the speakers ( Polk RTi 10) I wired in bi amp feeds for the front left and right, and surround feeds near the floor( instead of up on the wall) because of the nature of those speakers. With the receiver I have, 5.3 is all I can do, so more will have to wait until an upgrade. The speaker wire is 14 gauge csa/ul listed for inspection purposes, and digital coax for all sub pre-out lines, as well as speaker wire to all sub locations for passive sub instal. I also used 2" pvc for a conduit from the component cabinet to the projector location to run the HDMI feed. Power for the projector comes on a seperate breaker, and is fed through a UPS enroute because we live in the country and power outages are common in the winter. Doesn't look like enough wires but by the time everything was run properly there has to be 30 feeds in that small space...
More another day.Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome. We are only as smart as we all are together.
The theater is basically 20 x 20, as you'll see on the plan, and fully dedicated. The plan shows the Peerless subs on the side walls for now. The absence of doors seems to let a lot of bass frequency out of the room, and these placements work good temporarily. Once the doors are installed, I plan to move them to the front wall under the screen. This will facilitate the Horn loaded Trio12 placement as shown.
Eqiupment list is as follows:
panasonic pt-ae 4000u
Onkyo tx-sr608 receiver
Yamaha ax330 - driving a trial sonosub( no name 15" driver)
Kenwood kr-v7030 - driving the peerless sls sealed units
Polk RTi 10 front left & right
Polk RTi 10 surround
Polk LSi C center
Two Peerless SLS 10" in sealed enclosures
PS3 and a dell HTPC
I insulated the frost walls ( concrete behind them) with normal batt insulation. Any wall touching the adjacent rooms was insulated with roxul batts. The ceiling was insulated with roxul batts, and the drywall on the ceiling is a single layer of 5/8ths firegaurd with green glue to the joists. This view is from the family room through the theater doors to the screen wall on the far side.
This is the screen wall roughed in.
I wired the room for 9.3 surround, and later when I acquired the speakers ( Polk RTi 10) I wired in bi amp feeds for the front left and right, and surround feeds near the floor( instead of up on the wall) because of the nature of those speakers. With the receiver I have, 5.3 is all I can do, so more will have to wait until an upgrade. The speaker wire is 14 gauge csa/ul listed for inspection purposes, and digital coax for all sub pre-out lines, as well as speaker wire to all sub locations for passive sub instal. I also used 2" pvc for a conduit from the component cabinet to the projector location to run the HDMI feed. Power for the projector comes on a seperate breaker, and is fed through a UPS enroute because we live in the country and power outages are common in the winter. Doesn't look like enough wires but by the time everything was run properly there has to be 30 feeds in that small space...
More another day.Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome. We are only as smart as we all are together.