Broadsword
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Update 20th June 21: I've added some screen wall Devore to improve blacks and contrast, see pictures below.
Update 23rd October 21: New recliners from Furniture Village arrived.
Update 5th April 22: Monoprice thx365 Center replacing the mission mc2c.
Update 7th April 22: DIY masking panel made for 2.35:1 movies.
Thought I would share the cinema room that we created during lockdown. The room was a spare double bedroom with an alcove that hadn't been properly used for years really, was just a dumping ground for boxes and stuff. Anyway we had a wall high cupboard built in the alcove, dug up the old Sanyo z2000 and mission speakers from the garage and loft and installed them after a coat of paint. The speaker cables for the fronts are ran under the carpet round the room and into the alcove where they are fed up into the top of the cupboard where the kit is kept. The atmos speaker cables are fed in through the loft along with the projector cables.
I would love to upgrade the projector to a 4k compatible one but can't justify the outlay at the moment while the 12 year old Sanyo is still producing excellent images. The speakers are older, I bought them in 2003 when Beech was still an ok option. I have tried to think about how to wrap them in velvet or something but I havent really got the time to think it through properly.
I have in the past just projected onto the wall and never really though a screen would add that much so never bothered but boy was I wrong. It has transformer the room. Next job is to frame up the devore I have left over from the last room I did and try to get rid of the reflections.
You can see the D Line trunking hiding the power for the BK Sub below, the phono cable runs under the carpet along with the speaker wires.
My Dark Knight and Kill Bill posters final get to see the light and are resurrected. Its been a while. The bipole speakers are great too, perfect for a back wall. It was fun learning how to get the wires behind the dot and dab and where to drill from above.
Furniture village Link recliners in Grey Fabric with bespoke center reclining section.
Atmos speakers match the colour of the walls.
You can see the harmony blaster towards the right there on top of the cupboard architrave so we have line of sight to the projector even with the doors shut. Two Besta cabinets were used at the top to give some order to the kit, all the jungle of power cables and switches etc is hidden behind there. The speaker cables come up from the floor behind the left hand side cupboard return and join up with the cables coming down from the loft. You can see the blue plastic which has my old left over devore fabric which Im going to somehow utilise somewhere at some point.
Shelves are a bit messy at the moment but we will use them to store duvets and blankets and other bulky stuff when I get around to tidying it up. I'm thinking of researching how to set up an old router to use as a an ethernet wifi hotspot for in here as the wifi router is at the other side of the house. Not much uses wifi as its mostly hardwired using an external run of Cat 5e but sometimes the Denon app loses connections and it would be good for using phones and tablets and such.
Daylight shot of the screen, this would have been totally washed out when we were using the wall, so really happy with the screen. I've been looking for something budget for a long time and saw this Qualgear one on ebay for £210 so snapped it up. Amazon have been out of stock of these for 6 months or so. Wanted a grey 0.9 gain one, this is 1.2 gain but actually the added brightness is really nice and after a bit of settings stealing from avsforum the blacks are actually better than they were. Would love to come up with a masking solution using the devore for 2.35 copntent but trying to work out the material to use and how to connect is something that I keep putting off.
Govee strip lights controlled using alexa.
The circular LED lights are by Briloner and are really nice, they match the circular shape of the ceiling speakers which was the reason I got them. It also allows the light from the projector to go underneath and not leave a shadow. We were going to get spots installed but this was the cheaper option plus the elctrician we had let us down 3 times. He was going to do the spots and power for the projector and cupboard too but I ended up doing that myself. You can dim the lights by 3 levels using the wall switch and it remembers your last level too.
So over the weekend I've used the left over Devore fabric I had from the last house to cover the screen wall and the center speaker. Ive used notice board pins to attach the fabric and it seems to work quite well. Not the cleanist way of doing it granted but with the lights out who cares. I just ran out of fabric for the center speaker though.
Instant improvement to contrast and blacks.
And the masking panel in use:
The kit is:
Epson EH-TW9400 Projector
Qualgear 110" Screen
Denon x2600 Amp
Sky Q mini
Monoprice monolith thx 365c center
Mission M35 fronts
Kef Cresta 10 surrounds
BK xls400 subwoofer
Monitor Audio C280-IDC atmos in ceiling
Custom Design CS300 center speaker stand
Apple TV 4k 2nd Gen
Panasonic UB450EB 4k blu ray player
PS4
XBox One S
Nintendo Switch
Monoprice fire rated CL2 speaker cable
Harmony Elite
QNAP NAS
Furniture Village "Link" three seater power recline, power headrest in Grey.
Update 23rd October 21: New recliners from Furniture Village arrived.
Update 5th April 22: Monoprice thx365 Center replacing the mission mc2c.
Update 7th April 22: DIY masking panel made for 2.35:1 movies.
Thought I would share the cinema room that we created during lockdown. The room was a spare double bedroom with an alcove that hadn't been properly used for years really, was just a dumping ground for boxes and stuff. Anyway we had a wall high cupboard built in the alcove, dug up the old Sanyo z2000 and mission speakers from the garage and loft and installed them after a coat of paint. The speaker cables for the fronts are ran under the carpet round the room and into the alcove where they are fed up into the top of the cupboard where the kit is kept. The atmos speaker cables are fed in through the loft along with the projector cables.
I would love to upgrade the projector to a 4k compatible one but can't justify the outlay at the moment while the 12 year old Sanyo is still producing excellent images. The speakers are older, I bought them in 2003 when Beech was still an ok option. I have tried to think about how to wrap them in velvet or something but I havent really got the time to think it through properly.
I have in the past just projected onto the wall and never really though a screen would add that much so never bothered but boy was I wrong. It has transformer the room. Next job is to frame up the devore I have left over from the last room I did and try to get rid of the reflections.
You can see the D Line trunking hiding the power for the BK Sub below, the phono cable runs under the carpet along with the speaker wires.
My Dark Knight and Kill Bill posters final get to see the light and are resurrected. Its been a while. The bipole speakers are great too, perfect for a back wall. It was fun learning how to get the wires behind the dot and dab and where to drill from above.
Furniture village Link recliners in Grey Fabric with bespoke center reclining section.
Atmos speakers match the colour of the walls.
You can see the harmony blaster towards the right there on top of the cupboard architrave so we have line of sight to the projector even with the doors shut. Two Besta cabinets were used at the top to give some order to the kit, all the jungle of power cables and switches etc is hidden behind there. The speaker cables come up from the floor behind the left hand side cupboard return and join up with the cables coming down from the loft. You can see the blue plastic which has my old left over devore fabric which Im going to somehow utilise somewhere at some point.
Shelves are a bit messy at the moment but we will use them to store duvets and blankets and other bulky stuff when I get around to tidying it up. I'm thinking of researching how to set up an old router to use as a an ethernet wifi hotspot for in here as the wifi router is at the other side of the house. Not much uses wifi as its mostly hardwired using an external run of Cat 5e but sometimes the Denon app loses connections and it would be good for using phones and tablets and such.
Daylight shot of the screen, this would have been totally washed out when we were using the wall, so really happy with the screen. I've been looking for something budget for a long time and saw this Qualgear one on ebay for £210 so snapped it up. Amazon have been out of stock of these for 6 months or so. Wanted a grey 0.9 gain one, this is 1.2 gain but actually the added brightness is really nice and after a bit of settings stealing from avsforum the blacks are actually better than they were. Would love to come up with a masking solution using the devore for 2.35 copntent but trying to work out the material to use and how to connect is something that I keep putting off.
Govee strip lights controlled using alexa.
The circular LED lights are by Briloner and are really nice, they match the circular shape of the ceiling speakers which was the reason I got them. It also allows the light from the projector to go underneath and not leave a shadow. We were going to get spots installed but this was the cheaper option plus the elctrician we had let us down 3 times. He was going to do the spots and power for the projector and cupboard too but I ended up doing that myself. You can dim the lights by 3 levels using the wall switch and it remembers your last level too.
So over the weekend I've used the left over Devore fabric I had from the last house to cover the screen wall and the center speaker. Ive used notice board pins to attach the fabric and it seems to work quite well. Not the cleanist way of doing it granted but with the lights out who cares. I just ran out of fabric for the center speaker though.
Instant improvement to contrast and blacks.
And the masking panel in use:
The kit is:
Epson EH-TW9400 Projector
Qualgear 110" Screen
Denon x2600 Amp
Sky Q mini
Monoprice monolith thx 365c center
Mission M35 fronts
Kef Cresta 10 surrounds
BK xls400 subwoofer
Monitor Audio C280-IDC atmos in ceiling
Custom Design CS300 center speaker stand
Apple TV 4k 2nd Gen
Panasonic UB450EB 4k blu ray player
PS4
XBox One S
Nintendo Switch
Monoprice fire rated CL2 speaker cable
Harmony Elite
QNAP NAS
Furniture Village "Link" three seater power recline, power headrest in Grey.
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