Shrike's home theater project

[AllexxisF1]

What part of the world do you live in?

Northern Virginia.

It looks like a 127.75" diagonal, white with 1.1 gain, and not all that expensive. Do you find that you prefer letterboxing to happen on the sides when you're watching native 16:9 content? Or on the top and bottom if you have a 16:9 screen and watch 2.35:1 content?

So the inexpensive trick is to purchase a projector that can save image size settings. That way you configure 2:35:1 content and 16:9 seperately and just click when you want to see them. ALWAYS go with a cinemascope screen because, at least for me 16:9 that will be a tad smaller with bars running vertically on each side is much better than bars above and below in cinemascope.

So 1/3rd up from that would be roughly 2.5 ish ft. Let's say I get that particular Silver Ticket cinemascope screen, that's 54.75" height. So, 96" to the ceiling, assuming I come down 12 inches from the ceiling (gap above screen for trim n' such) that's 54.75" off of 84" which leaves me with 29" (roughly) from the floor to the bottom of the screen.

First sit on your new couch and have your wife measure your eyeballs to the floor. Get comfortable in a seating position that feels real. That's the measurement that must be 1/3 up from the bottom of the projection screen. From there you do the maths to figure where it sits on the wall and what height center console you can get away with. Bigly important for the height of what will be your left/right fronts. You want their tweeters aimed right at your ears.

Out of curiosity what would be less garbage positions for height?

When it comes to rears your supposed to have them a above your ear positions but not by much. Honestly, rear channels have so little information you can put them higher, just don't put them in corners.

When it comes to the projector, if you can return it, it's a great way to pick it up, shine it on the wall and see how the distances work and if they will fit your wall. Remember you don't want to be buying a screen that is larger than what you can project. That will suck hard.

That Silver Ticket is good kit, the frames are extruded aluminum and strong, screen material is fantastic too.

Yeah, run all those cables inside the baseboard, it's easy and like an hour DYI.

I use photoshop and plan it out. I went through dozens of iterations for my theater and had a consultant that's the Messiah of the AVS Forums for a few hours. Jeff is the best and I was lucky that he lives in my area. Saved lots of dough and found great places to buy materials.

 

[shrike126]

Northern Virginia.

Well that's a bit of a drive then to come see the work-in-progress or ultimate finished product. Safe to assume this will end up on YouTube in some AVS Forum review or something?

So the inexpensive trick is to purchase a projector that can save image size settings. That way you configure 2:35:1 content and 16:9 seperately and just click when you want to see them. ALWAYS go with a cinemascope screen because, at least for me 16:9 that will be a tad smaller with bars running vertically on each side is much better than bars above and below in cinemascope.

How often do you find yourself watching 2.35:1 sourced CinemaScope content? Are there specific streaming services that do better with this?

First sit on your new couch and have your wife measure your eyeballs to the floor. Get comfortable in a seating position that feels real. That's the measurement that must be 1/3 up from the bottom of the projection screen. From there you do the maths to figure where it sits on the wall and what height center console you can get away with. Bigly important for the height of what will be your left/right fronts. You want their tweeters aimed right at your ears.

In that case, it might need to wait a couple weekends since the sectional she ordered won't be arriving until August 1st. We have family visiting a week starting tomorrow, so I'm not sure if we'll be able to drop by AFW to see the sectional on their showroom floor and get that measurement in before then. Which is fine, I guess I'm not in the most major rush anyways.

When it comes to rears your supposed to have them a above your ear positions but not by much. Honestly, rear channels have so little information you can put them higher, just don't put them in corners.

I think we can bump out the couch a little bit, like a foot or two, to make room for the rears to sit on a stand behind the couch. It's what we did in the upstairs living room with the 5.1 setup there, and most of the time as you mention it's usually just filler sound, like crowd noise in sporting events n' such.

When it comes to the projector, if you can return it, it's a great way to pick it up, shine it on the wall and see how the distances work and if they will fit your wall. Remember you don't want to be buying a screen that is larger than what you can project. That will suck hard.

I'm assuming the 120-130 ish range (depending on aspect ratio I guess) should be pretty safe. I have all the measurements, and using the Projector Central app to calculate screen size and throw, I think we're in a good place. But need to sit down and draw it out on digital paper so it's all written down in one place.

That Silver Ticket is good kit, the frames are extruded aluminum and strong, screen material is fantastic too.

Silver Ticket doesn't look like it wants to murder my wallet so I'm glad to hear it's a decent quality option.

Yeah, run all those cables inside the baseboard, it's easy and like an hour DYI.

I should have the baseboard trim to play with by this weekend, so I think the only open question I have in my head is how to run the cables out of the middle of a piece of trim.

I use photoshop and plan it out. I went through dozens of iterations for my theater and had a consultant that's the Messiah of the AVS Forums for a few hours. Jeff is the best and I was lucky that he lives in my area. Saved lots of dough and found great places to buy materials.

I was hoping there was a better tool than Photoshop since I'm terrible with it and it feels overly complicated for my purpose. What speaker wire did you use for those runs? Any particular gauge or brand?

 

[AllexxisF1]

Get your cables from Monoprice.

Monoprice 12 gauge.

https://www.monoprice.com/search/in...ries+12AWG+CL2+Rated+2-Conductor+Speaker+Wire

I may do a Youtube video of the build.