tfboy
Prominent Member
I'm hoping to soon embark on a project where I'd be building a home theatre from the ground up, well, given a very large room in which I can the do the necessary.
I'm waiting to find out the exact room dimensions, but I expect it to be on the large side with the ability to cater for around 10 people in two tiers of seating. I'm hoping to have a room that's about 10m wide by 20m deep by 3.5m tall.
We're planning to be future proof too, and even if we don't add the speaker hardware, I'm thinking of preparing the room for Auro / Atmos in something like a 16.1 configuration.
I have the option of going for acoustic screen material so the speakers won't necessarily need to be pretty to look at and can be hidden behind the screen and AT material to keep things clean. On the other hand, if they look nice, it's nice to have the option to show them off.
I'd say the room will be used 90% for movie watching, but I'd like and expect them to be pretty decent for stereo too. We'll be treating the room acoustically. Audio processor is likely to be a LS20i, depending on support for the 3D audio codecs in the coming few weeks or months.
There's the option of going active if necessary, or using passive speakers capable of high levels for the size of the room and have them powered locally or from a central AV rack - I plan to build my own amps for them.
I'm also undecided on subwoofer. I don't know whether I'll have the ability to go IB or not, but multi subs is definately on the cards.
What are people's thoughts? I'm up to speed and know how I plan to achieve stuff, I'm just out of date when it comes to HT high end speakers on the market today.
I'm waiting to find out the exact room dimensions, but I expect it to be on the large side with the ability to cater for around 10 people in two tiers of seating. I'm hoping to have a room that's about 10m wide by 20m deep by 3.5m tall.
We're planning to be future proof too, and even if we don't add the speaker hardware, I'm thinking of preparing the room for Auro / Atmos in something like a 16.1 configuration.
I have the option of going for acoustic screen material so the speakers won't necessarily need to be pretty to look at and can be hidden behind the screen and AT material to keep things clean. On the other hand, if they look nice, it's nice to have the option to show them off.
I'd say the room will be used 90% for movie watching, but I'd like and expect them to be pretty decent for stereo too. We'll be treating the room acoustically. Audio processor is likely to be a LS20i, depending on support for the 3D audio codecs in the coming few weeks or months.
There's the option of going active if necessary, or using passive speakers capable of high levels for the size of the room and have them powered locally or from a central AV rack - I plan to build my own amps for them.
I'm also undecided on subwoofer. I don't know whether I'll have the ability to go IB or not, but multi subs is definately on the cards.
What are people's thoughts? I'm up to speed and know how I plan to achieve stuff, I'm just out of date when it comes to HT high end speakers on the market today.