I have began to read and read the information on various forums on acoustics and soundproofing and I found myself more overwhelmed than I was before. I can appreciate a lot of the information and plan to better understand it all in the future, but to be honest a lot of it was over my head at this point. I also found a lot of the posts were back and forth between members giving their opinion on why others ideas are incorrect which made it hard to follow all the technical jargon.
I am hoping I can gather some general information on what to do to with my finished basement to get a decent sound out of it while limiting the sound from those above and my sound from carrying into the other living spaces. All while keeping a limited budget and being able to locally or online source the products. (60178 and 60115 area codes)
Details: I am starting to finishing my basement. One room will be my "theater room". (see the attached picture for what I want it to look like) This room will be used for watching movies, listening to 2 channel music and utilizing the dry bar. I know when it comes to Acoustics it's one or the other (2chan or Multi chan), so I am just trying to make it sound as good as possible. I am coming from a far from ideal basement with zero treatments and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Room will be ~ 24 x 16 x 8 with AV rack being stored in the storage room behind the back wall.
Equipment: Audio: Denon 3400h, Buckeye Amps 2 channel Power amp, Emotiva T1+, Emotiva C2+, Micca MB 42, Atmos speakers TBD
Source: NAS connected to Laptop playing via Plex, xbox one
Video: 120" 16:9 from silver ticket. (have not picked a specific model yet), Projector TBD leaning towards the Optoma UHD 50x
I am hoping I can gather some general information on what to do to with my finished basement to get a decent sound out of it while limiting the sound from those above and my sound from carrying into the other living spaces. All while keeping a limited budget and being able to locally or online source the products. (60178 and 60115 area codes)
Details: I am starting to finishing my basement. One room will be my "theater room". (see the attached picture for what I want it to look like) This room will be used for watching movies, listening to 2 channel music and utilizing the dry bar. I know when it comes to Acoustics it's one or the other (2chan or Multi chan), so I am just trying to make it sound as good as possible. I am coming from a far from ideal basement with zero treatments and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Room will be ~ 24 x 16 x 8 with AV rack being stored in the storage room behind the back wall.
Equipment: Audio: Denon 3400h, Buckeye Amps 2 channel Power amp, Emotiva T1+, Emotiva C2+, Micca MB 42, Atmos speakers TBD
Source: NAS connected to Laptop playing via Plex, xbox one
Video: 120" 16:9 from silver ticket. (have not picked a specific model yet), Projector TBD leaning towards the Optoma UHD 50x