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  1. Home Theater Design and Construction
    In April, we will be building a new garage and converting our existing garage into a game room, or a multi use space. I want to create a media closet for the HT equipment, as well as general storage. My initial idea is to create a 5' x 3' insulated closet, use double sliding doors on the...
  2. Electronic Processing/Equalization Devices
    Display your gear with minimal cable lengths or separate your gear in a closet and live with much longer cable lengths? These are two different approaches folks take and a lot of ad-hoc in between. The approach I have taken is to provision two a/v closets supporting three home theater...
  3. Home Theater Design and Construction
    I'm new to home theater so please bear with me. I'm planning on putting my A/V receiver, blue ray player & my cable box in a closet that measures 3"x13" (it's the closet under the stairwell going downstairs ) what I'm wondering is will there a heat/ventilation problem?
  4. IB - Infinite Baffle Subwoofer Build Projects
    Hello everyone, After years of reading about all the great projects on this forum, I've decided to jump off the deep end. I went out and bought myself an A-lens, decided to build a DIY curved screen, and, lastly, upgrade my low end bass. To that end, I've decided to try and do a 4 x IB318...
  5. System Setup and Connection
    It's going to be new construction for a home I'm building. I have a bunch of stuff I want to hook up. 6 rooms will have 2 speakers in each room,thats (12 wires ) that are ceiling mounted, each room with have a wall mounted IR receiver (Buffalo Electronics Buffalo IR-250 In-Wall Insert IR...
  6. Home Audio Acoustics
    I have a rectangular room that has (had) a 4ftx2ft closet in one corner. The closet door and door frame have been removed. So I'm left with a 4ftx2ft indentation (ceiling is 8ft high). I was originally going to use the space to hold my HT electronics. But I would have had to run cable under...
  7. IB - Infinite Baffle Subwoofer Build Projects
    Just ordered 2 Fi IB 18" drivers for my hometheater-in-a-bedroom. The room is pretty small (11'x13') so I was conflicted on which sub to build. I wanted something that can play low and loud and that usually means a big box. Then I realized I already had a ginormous enclosure right in front of...
  8. Remotes | Cables | Accessories | Tweaks
    Hi everyone. I'm currently in the middle of a home theatre project (aren't we all) and going through the complicated thoughts of remote controlling the system. As I have very little knowledge of this I have been trawling the internet, gaining an insight into RF and IR repeaters and attempting to...
  9. DIY Subwoofers - General Discussion
    what's the down fall of putting a sub in a closet? Let just say you would open the door up when you want to use it? I have a closet that has a passage way underneath the stairs that's just begging to used.
  10. DIY Subwoofers - General Discussion
    I have a closet which I presently use my IB in ....This closet is build with 2x3 lumber spaced every 12 inches and stuffed with fiberglass,it is covered with 1/2 gyprock,plastered and painted. I want to use the whole space as much as possible to get my 40 cubic feet that I need... Should I just...
  11. Home Theater Design and Construction
    I'm working on building my media room in my basement. We've almost finished getting the walls put up in place so I'm starting to think about my wiring etc. for the media room. my dimensions are roughly 12'6"x21' for the room. At the back left of the room is where I'm situating my A/V...
  12. Home Theater Systems | Equipment
    I'll get a picture or two up this weekend. Top shelf then down Monster Pro Power 900 Power Center Dish VIP 722 HD DVR PS3 Toshiba HD A2 HD DVD Player Stanton T.50X turntable Oppo 971 ( Used as cd player) Onkyo 503 ( Due for upgrade) MonoPrice 4x2 Hdmi switcher Hot Link Pro IR Repeater system...
  13. Home Audio Subwoofers
    I was wondering if anyone has done this. I have a closet that is not used in the back corner of my HTR. I am going to take the door off and put the sub inside the closet but I don't know if this is really a good idea or not. I know the easy answer is to just try it and see but I was interested...
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