Home Theatre Setups with Pictures

[kgeorge78]

Heres a few of my gaming area / home theater / Bar in Progress







Almost Done. Still Waiting for the NAD 785 Receiver.
Using a Pana ax100u

[PhilD]

Here is mine almost finished

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Gear;
Plasma, Panasonic 50PX600U
DVD, Toshiba AX2
AVR, Yamaha RXV2700
Sat, Bell 9200
Media Streamer, DLink
Power Conditioner/surge protector, Belkin PF40
Speakers front, rear surround, center and sub Infinity ILS series
Speakers front presence and surrounds Paradign CSR60's
Lurton IR lighting on three zones
Remote, Harmony 880
All wall plates by Supercell Audio

Missing gear LOL...Sony Laser Disk Player, Pioneer 5 disk DVD, Yamaha DVD, Sony Play Station

Gear to come, Seymour AV AT screen 90" wide, Projector and maybe a Panasonic BD10A .....if God spares my life after the wife's beating.

Later
Phil

[gman80]

Well the construction of our new home in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia is coming along nicely and it seems to be the right time to start my HT postings.

Here are the approximate dimensions: 8ft ceilings, 10.2ft wide by 18.7ft deep with a small jog at the back for the media closet.

Equipment List (current and planned)

* Yamaha RXV-1800 or 2700
* Russound Advantage Hi-Fi speakers 8'' in-wall and in ceiling
* Panny AX-100 or 200
* 92'' Carada or Draper screen
* Motorola 6412 PVR/HD cbl box
* MX-650 or 850 remote with IR/RF rec.
* Russound CAS 4
* Netgear EVA 8000
* HP Mediavault .5TB NAS
* Lutron Spacer system for pot lights and wall sconces
* Good surge protector/line conditioner - no decsion yet


Images

http://flickr.com/photos/75948194@N00/1601435718/
http://flickr.com/photos/75948194@N00/1588654961/
http://flickr.com/photos/75948194@N00/1588648521/
http://flickr.com/photos/75948194@N00/1589529406/
http://flickr.com/photos/75948194@N00/1588654961/

[unibroue]

Voici mon avant / après.

[fredbalsdon]

You guys have some nice setups gives me some ideas for the one i am working on.

[BC-HD]

I have been planning this theater room for 3 years and finally started mid September.
The goal is to be in before Christmas but that might be optimistic.
I am doing all the finish work myself so the work is not happening as quickly as I would like.
The plan is to have a 60" plasma on the wall with an electric drop down 120" screen in front.
The old 65" Toshiba will go on this wall until my pocket book recovers from building the room.
We are planning on drapes with black out linings for the 3 windows but I am confused as to the best screen to purchase in terms of gain and style, there will be no speakers behind the screen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/BCHIDEF/TheRoom

[L8NVR]

Lets try this one more time

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...R/DSC00342.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...R/DSC00343.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...R/DSC00333.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/e...R/DSC00336.jpg

[supervij]

L8NVR, that looks nice! I'm not sure I dig those walls on either side of the screen, though. I hope there aren't any seats so far off to the side of the room that they can't see the whole screen. And do those extra walls cause problems with boomy bass?

cheers,
supervij

[the_Dude]

there are some beautiful homes and systems here. This is our meager attempt at home theater. Some new equipment, some kinda old. The room is 12'x30' and contains our front door, living room (home theater), dinning room and a kitchen. Plans are to kick the renters out of the basement in the summer and start on a dedicated room down there. We can only get TFC OTA and it's all analog... Maybe someday we will see a digital OTA signal, but I am not holding my breath.


Denon AVR3300
Pioneer DV-05
Pioneer PD-F507
Sony VHS
Panamax 1000+
Samsung HLT5689
4x B&W 603 Mains and rear
2x B&W DS6 dipoles
1X B&W LCR6 SII Center
MK MX125 II sub
Channelmaster 3020
assortment of cables



and the 603 in the corner with the DS6 way up over the window. Perfect locations for both... I am too embarrassed to show a pic of the other side...

[kev604]

I like those B&W speakers, first time I've seen a center channel speaker sitting vertical like that.

[the_Dude]

Thanks, it surprises me a bit that more home theaters don't incorporate a vertical center. Most speakers have a better dispersion in the vertical position and it usually results ( I dare say will always) in a smoother frequency response. I would assume that's why we NEVER see horizontal drivers in our towers that we use for our mains.

We talk about timbre matching and speaker placement, but rarely do we see three of the same speakers up front, in the same orientation. I wish I had room to use one of the 603s as a center.

I don't know if you can tell from the pictures, but the center is also tilted so that the focal point is at the listening position. It makes a huge difference.

The other thing I notice is that a lot of guys have a huge separation between their speakers and their screens. I have been playing with the idea of lifting my mains up a little to locate the tweeters in about the middle of the screen. It bugs me to have the soundstage lost off the screen. I don't know if that makes sense??

[supervij]

the Dude is absolutely correct about the better dispersion in the vertical position. I saw an article over at audioholics that examined the dispersion of different types of speakers with each one sitting horizontally and then vertically. The vertical positions were almost always better. I wish I could switch my centre to vertical, but the way everything's set up in my gear, it would either look ridiculous (and be visually distracting) or it would be in the way of other components. I just want my centre to be as close to the middle of the screen as possible, which is tough with an actual TV as opposed to an acoustically transparent screen!

Your idea about lifting your mains seems to make intuitive sense. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

cheers,
supervij

[BC-HD]

Hello Hugh,

There seems to be a number of posts deleted from this thread, I hope this was an accident

Thanks,

Bob

[57]

BC-HD, I believe you're in the wrong thread? Here are your recent posts. If you ever want to find your posts go to "quick links" at the top right and scroll down to "my posts".

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/show...269#post650269

[BC-HD]

Sorry 57,
I was originally posting in this thread and accidentally posted in the other.

Bob