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delta76

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So I joined a few Facebook groups about home theatre, and you can guess, most of the setup there are Klipsch. Klipsch is the most popular setup, and it is not even close.
So I wonder, while the majority of ASR are probably into Hifi/stereo setup alone, there must be a significant portion of you guys and gals are into Home Theatre. Show us your setup.

Me first (And apologies for the mess, this was when I first setup the speakers and had to remove the tv bench. I can't even remove the protect film from the TV because of small kids)

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LG 65CX
Onkyo TX-NR809
Focal Aria 948x2, 906x2, cc900
XSX/PS5 and Switch.
Sabaj a20a 2022. I was curious about it, but regretted the purchase.

I am dying to find a good deal on Denon x3700h to replace my Onkyo, but meanwhile I'll use eArc + audio splitter. Quite a PITA.

I did minimal room treatment because it's the living room and even having a sound absorbing curtain is not approved by my wife. Still a significant improvement over the tv speakers, but I could do better.
 

MattHooper

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I'm a big HT fan and went in to the weeds for many years, especially designing my projection-based home theater.
The room does double duty as both my 2 channel listening room and my home theater room.

I have a long Home Theater Build thread on the AVSforum, but all the photos disappeared because they were hosted on a site that got rid of them (they went from free to paid). That was cruel!

Anyway, I have a few more recent photos where you can see some of the home theater aspect.

Description:

Projector:
JVC RS600 (still the highest contrast consumer projector ever put out).
Screen: Stewart ST120 screen, spans up to about 11 feet wide.
4-Way Automated Masking System: This was 1/2 self designed, incorporating a Carada Masquerade horizontal masking system and additional Goelst side panel system. Working together, programmed by a universal remote, the screen can change shape to whatever necessary to perfectly fit any movie.

Denon AV receiver
Oppo UHD player/Apple TV
Speakers: Hales Transcendence T1 monitors, Center channel, Monitor Audio surrounds, rears.


The projector is hidden behind the viewing/listening sofa. It's on a telescoping lift, so when the home theater is turned on, black out blinds automatically slide down and cover the bay windows, the lighting goes down, and the Projector lifts up to over 6 feet high and turns on.

Other features: The ceiling was re-built as a drop down structure covered in dark brown stretched felt fabric. This helps reject light reflection back to the screen to maintain contrast, and also helps acoustically with the room (there are acoustic treatments in portions of the ceiling; the room was designed with the input of an acoustician).

The L/C/R home theater speakers are covered (including stands) in black velvet, sitting on a black velvet 'stage' against a wall in which the screen is surrounded by black velvet. The effect is threefold: 1. Stops light from reflecting off the speakers during movies so they "disappear" in the dark. 2. Allows the movie image to float surrounded by pitch black for better immersion. 3. Makes the HT speakers blend in with the black velvet wall - in fact when there isn't daylight streaming in, you usually can't even see them. Which helps reduce visual clutter given the number of speakers in the room.

Finally, there are black velvet curtains stealthily hidden in the room which can be pulled along all the walls. It takes only about 30 seconds and it turns the room from "bright and cheery" for daily use in to a completely blacked out non-reflective 'bat cave' for maximum image contrast and immersion in the movie.

The only photos I have handy - from just outside the room, and peeking just in side the room:



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Either not many ASR members are in to Home Theater, or this thread was posted in the wrong forum.
 

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Mine is easy, Sonos ARC and a 55inch Samsung.

I used to do HT. Started with a Pioneer Rear projection TV, Pioneer Elite Laser Disc player, Denon AVR, NHT surrounds, center, mains and sub,
 

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You have built a great home theater!
I have a simple 5.1 system (old picture - now the TV is much bigger) Front/rear - mark audio chr70 and chp70. Simple 100W subwoofer (parallel 2 TDA 7294 chipamps). SONY receiver. HTPC as a signal source. The rest is for music. Something changes all the time.
 

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I'm a big HT fan and went in to the weeds for many years, especially designing my projection-based home theater.
The room does double duty as both my 2 channel listening room and my home theater room.

I have a long Home Theater Build thread on the AVSforum, but all the photos disappeared because they were hosted on a site that got rid of them (they went from free to paid). That was cruel!

Anyway, I have a few more recent photos where you can see some of the home theater aspect.

Description:

Projector:
JVC RS600 (still the highest contrast consumer projector ever put out).
Screen: Stewart ST120 screen, spans up to about 11 feet wide.
4-Way Automated Masking System: This was 1/2 self designed, incorporating a Carada Masquerade horizontal masking system and additional Goelst side panel system. Working together, programmed by a universal remote, the screen can change shape to whatever necessary to perfectly fit any movie.

Denon AV receiver
Oppo UHD player/Apple TV
Speakers: Hales Transcendence T1 monitors, Center channel, Monitor Audio surrounds, rears.


The projector is hidden behind the viewing/listening sofa. It's on a telescoping lift, so when the home theater is turned on, black out blinds automatically slide down and cover the bay windows, the lighting goes down, and the Projector lifts up to over 6 feet high and turns on.

Other features: The ceiling was re-built as a drop down structure covered in dark brown stretched felt fabric. This helps reject light reflection back to the screen to maintain contrast, and also helps acoustically with the room (there are acoustic treatments in portions of the ceiling; the room was designed with the input of an acoustician).

The L/C/R home theater speakers are covered (including stands) in black velvet, sitting on a black velvet 'stage' against a wall in which the screen is surrounded by black velvet. The effect is threefold: 1. Stops light from reflecting off the speakers during movies so they "disappear" in the dark. 2. Allows the movie image to float surrounded by pitch black for better immersion. 3. Makes the HT speakers blend in with the black velvet wall - in fact when there isn't daylight streaming in, you usually can't even see them. Which helps reduce visual clutter given the number of speakers in the room.

Finally, there are black velvet curtains stealthily hidden in the room which can be pulled along all the walls. It takes only about 30 seconds and it turns the room from "bright and cheery" for daily use in to a completely blacked out non-reflective 'bat cave' for maximum image contrast and immersion in the movie.

The only photos I have handy - from just outside the room, and peeking just in side the room:



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>4-Way Automated Masking System

That’s awesome! Here I was using gaff tape...
 

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Well, seeing the average level, maybe I can claim the cheapest ht implant possible.
Epson fullhd projector from 600 euros that projects on .... Wall!
AVR Yamaha RX-V767 bought second hand for 250 euros
Ayiyma A07 used as a power amplifier for the frontal 83 euros
Magnat supreme 1002 fronts, 320 euros per pair
Magnat tempus center as central 92 euros
Magnat monitor supreme 202 as surround 140 euros
Second-hand Energy subwoofer, I don't even remember the initials, 50 euros

Total 1535 euros
And guys, what to say .... I enjoy the movies very much with a lot of "WOW" sound effects
 

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Hope I can revive this thread and that many others may follow!

Here’s my setup:

Room: 5,5x4,1x2,5 meters in the basement.

Setup: seperate stereo and 7.1.2 atmos home theather setup in same room.

Equipment:

Home theater setup:
Powergrip YG-1. Nvidia Shield. DenonX4500H. LCR: Martin Logan Motion 4/6. Atmos: Dali Oberon On Wall. Samsung 82RU8000 TV. SVS PC2000 Pro. Crown XLS1502 + JBL 4281F.

Stereo setup: Powergrip YG-1. Bluesound Node 2i. MiniDSP SHD Studio. Dutch & Dutch 8m. Same dual subs.

Acoustic treatment: bass traps and absorption panels, mostly diy, about 2.800 liters volume.

Some photos:
 

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Sony AG9 / 77 + Denon AVRX 4500 + Monitor Audio Silver + 3 Sub + Plafond TAGA HARMONY / IW100LCRS
 

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No dedicated home theater room myself. I do have four multich systems that are avr based, tho (plus a 2ch system....all separate rooms, gotta do something with the gear one accumulates and doesn't like selling). Pictures I'm lousy at. No Klipsch, tho.
 

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Sony AG9 / 77 + Denon AVRX 4500 + Monitor Audio Silver + 3 Sub + Plafond TAGA HARMONY / IW100LCRS
Pictures please!
 

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Nobody interested or are there no home theaters at asr?
 

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I’m lucky that I live alone because no sane woman would let me take over the living room like this. 75” Sony drops down out of ceiling for watching tv. Room actually sounds pretty good with a cathedral ceiling and a catwalk with pickets for the bridge above.
 

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I’m lucky that I live alone because no sane woman would let me take over the living room like this. 75” Sony drops down out of ceiling for watching tv. Room actually sounds pretty good with a cathedral ceiling and a catwalk with pickets for the bridge above.
That a tv that can swing down? Cool, love to see more about that. Nice setup!
 

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Denon 3700 avr, Apple TV 4K, 55” budget lg 4k smart tv, dali spektor 6 floorstanders, spektor 2 rear left and right and a spektor vokal centre… plus 120 litres with four peerless sls 10” subs from a 450wrms monoprice amp and a helix mini car audio dsp to sort eq and timing properly

Simple and sounds pretty decent with most music, I did customise the house curve so it’s effectively flat to 20khz, no negatives for me and sounds good on music as well… shines on movies with the subs doing there jobs well!

Ceiling absorber/light unit next and a set of heights for atmos all good fun!
 

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Yea it is mounted up on the sloping cathedral ceiling. When I want to watch tv there is a remote and the mechanism lowers to the desired angle for viewing. Kind of just folds down with a belt pulley electric motor and then when I want it out of the way for music hit the remote and it raises back up flat to the sloping cathedral ceiling. Found it on Amazon, I think I paid less than $200 for it. Again not very WAF, not a problem since I have run off all the woman in my life. I’m out of town but when I get back I can take some better pics of the mechanism.
 

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I use my stereo as a home theatre, my wife and I watch a lot of movies and series. Maybe one day I'll add rear channels, but for me, a large screen (near 100'' in my case) delivers more pleasure than multi-channel. Or maybe I'm just more stereo focused.
 

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Acoustat Spectra 1100s driven by Hafler P3000 TransNova
KEF Q150 "center channel" driven by Hafler P3000 TransNova
Adam Audio T5V surround speakers
JBL LSR305 (Gen1) Atmos height speakers
Jamo 8" and 10" subs, M&K 12" sub
Poneer VSX-LX503 AVR
Dayton Audio DSP-408 digital signal processors
Sony Bravia XR-65X90J 4K UHDTV

I plan to move the rear height speakers forward to just behind the ceiling beam.

Looks crazy, but a KEF Q150 works very well sharing dialog duties with Acoustats:
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