Any of you A/V Dedicated Home Theater nuts? (like me..)

[TekHousE]

I have had a dedicated home theater for a few years now, a Finnish newspaper even came and interviewed me and took photos for an article about it once..

Anyway, last week or so I had some upgrades to my theater. It now has Control 4 Automation, all my A/V gear moved out of the furniture style A/V unit at the front of my theater and is now in a dedicated 'Blackbox' Rack unit, with LED lighting and passively cooling design features.

All previous cables were pulled out, and new copper pulled through the ceiling back to the rack. All lights are now in groups and controlled by my Control 4 remote. Lighting dims and turns off automatically when starting a movie for example. They are also in groups, but can be controlled separately, since I am going to completely redo the lights next summer.

I have these components:

Samsung Sattelite DVR (dual inputs so watch one thing record another)
Chromecast
Media PC with Bluray player (I have 12 TB of movies on this system) Yes I meant TERABytes..;)
Integra 40.6 A/V receiver
NAD 7.1 Power Amp - 7 separate monolithic sound controllers per channel (that weighs 58kg!)
Gradient 'Revolution' Front Left/Right speakers, with Full range 2X12" woofers per side (4X12" on the SUB channel ;)) These are 'reference' speakers and pretty amazing.
Gradient 'Lauri' Center speaker - One very special speaker and now super rare, I was lucky to get one new..You can't buy them anymore unless some noob doesn't know what they are selling to you ;) and gets rid of one.
Gradient 'Prelude' Upper Left/Right MID speakers. These are mounted at the first row and above you but pointed down. Great when something flies over your head in a movie. ;)
Wharfedale Surround Left/Right speakers. These are OK, but the surround rears do not get much work, since they only fill in ambient sounds on DTS and THX surround modes.

If you need me I'll be watching movies this weekend. ;)

 

[super-bee_ski]

HOLY COW TEK!

If you were here in the States, I'd be over with some beer...
Very nice set-up BTW...

 

[Propwash]

Wow....that's impressive mate. My system is peanuts compared to that.

 

[TekHousE]

Well if any of you are in the neighborhood, the invitation stands..movie, whisky and car talk!

 

[super-bee_ski]

I need to get out of this JOB in order for me to travel again...
: (
I'm restrticted.....:tweety:

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TEK,
How much was that Gradient 'Lauri' Center speaker ?

 

[Richard Cranium]

Very nice, but might I suggest that you clean that crap up before someone trips over it and breaks their leg.

 

[benno440]

bastard,

i wish mine was that good, how do you set all that up? my new house is currently getting built and it has a media room but all i got at the moment is a 55" samsung 3d led, blu ray and a 7.4 sony muteki, with an external hard drive, i would love a setup like this but know not alot abou it

 

[TekHousE]

bastard,

i wish mine was that good, how do you set all that up? my new house is currently getting built and it has a media room but all i got at the moment is a 55" samsung 3d led, blu ray and a 7.4 sony muteki, with an external hard drive, i would love a setup like this but know not alot abou it

Thanks mate..

BEFORE doing anything like this research it!

I spent a lot of time designing the room. Which went from on open room that looked like this:







TO what you see up there.

The big thing we did was lower the roof, then I designed a sound baffle system using glass wool and strategic air pockets, to 'capture' standing waves.

The end of the room with the windows is now the screen wall. Those windows still exist, but they are filled with acoustic panels within the double glazing frames (actually in Finland it is triple glazing), then the recesses of the windows on the inside of the room were made flush by using more Ecophon panelling.

The whole wall was then covered in Black velvet. Not cheap crap either, Gown quality velvet from a tailor.

The dropped ceiling got a wooden frame, that had the inner facing surfaces 'isolated' from the upper ones bolted to the ceiling, to minimize sound transferring into my building structure. (my house is concrete floors, walls and ceilings). The wall we put up to install the doors also have their inner side isolated from the outer using acoustic glue to bond the wood layers together..NO screws or bolts!

SO I spent more time and money on what is now covered up, created a room that was asymmetrical, the room is narrower at the screen end. Then started to choose AV stuff..

I could have bought a cherry '68 Charger R/T with this room..trust me.

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Very nice, but might I suggest that you clean that crap up before someone trips over it and breaks their leg.

Done!

 

[Budnicks]

looks pretty cool TEK,
my ol' Sony surround sound & Sony Viso 55" flat screen does pretty well,
I'm sure it'd do better in a theater setting like yours too,
just nowhere to do that, no extra unused space...

Seems we & guests, all spend the bulk of the time where the TV & games are now,
centrally located close to the kitchen & dinning rooms....

 

[Car Nut]

Very nice!

 

[kiwigtx]

Nice work Tek...I see you put some thought into that system :headbang:

 

[conv67bdere]

HOLY COW TEK!

If you were here in the States, I'd be over with some beer...
Very nice set-up BTW...

Me too Tek . . . very nice ! ! !

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

$$$ Very nice.

I've dabbled in some DIY speaker builds that I got ideas for on avsforum and been happy w/ performance vs price. Never messed w/ stuff of this caliber though.

I've been considering doing a stone wall in my basement as well, but one of my friends has been advising against it...says they hold a lot of dust and crap. Anyone have any experience?

 

[TekHousE]

$$$ Very nice.

I've dabbled in some DIY speaker builds that I got ideas for on avsforum and been happy w/ performance vs price. Never messed w/ stuff of this caliber though.

I've been considering doing a stone wall in my basement as well, but one of my friends has been advising against it...says they hold a lot of dust and crap. Anyone have any experience?

I had heard that too, that stone wall is as clean as can be. It's been up for the last 6 years and no dust or dirt has accumulated. Obviously we vacuum this room, but not that often compared to the rest of our house. Maybe once month or so.

I put that wall in myself, it was easy and took me 2 days, including running out every 10 minutes and cutting small pieces off at the final stages when slotting the last stones in. I had never done anything like this before, so I was happy with the result.

 

[MarPar]

holy mackerel, Tek!!

that is definitely one of the baddest hi-fi setups i've ever seen! bravo!!

 

[themechanic]

If you're an AV nut I guess I'm just a kernel. My system doesn't begin to compare with yours.

Your system looks fantastic; I bet it sounds fantastic, too. What do the neighbers think when you crank it?

What remote do you use? I use a Harmony One and couldn't do without it.

 

[jim496]

That is what I call outstanding.... WOW!!!

 

[TekHousE]

If you're an AV nut I guess I'm just a kernel. My system doesn't begin to compare with yours.

Your system looks fantastic; I bet it sounds fantastic, too. What do the neighbers think when you crank it?

What remote do you use? I use a Harmony One and couldn't do without it.

You cannot hear it outside of my house. The room is soundproofed pretty well, plus it's a basement room too.

 

[SteveSS]

Mine

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When i did the basement I bought the TV first then designed the room. wired 6 satellite speakers in the ceiling. The gym room has a sliding mirror door on the back side of the entertainment center so all wiring is hidden. Put dimmer sconces on the wall so I can have a retro theater setting.