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I made my riser 11" high. This provides enough clearance for the second row. I wouldn't want any lower than that.

If you have the room, try for 2x screen width. My room is 16' 4" long and 12" wide, and I have two rows of seating, with the back row against the back wall of the room. My couches are 37" long and I have about 20" between the couches for "leg room", which is plenty comfortable. I just barely fit...

Sounds like a cool room you are building there Don. Here is my crack at your questions... 1. I, personally, would go with something darker, but also has some personality when the lights are up. Ideally, you want no outside light, or reflections off of any bright surfaces during a movie. Make...

My room is fairly small (12x16) and I carpeted the lower half of the walls with indoor/outdoor carpet from Home Depot. It turned out great and really helped to deaden the room acoustically. The couches also seem to absorb lots of sound. The Sanyo may work, you'll need something with a pretty...

Yes, it's a SP4805. It's a great projector for the $, and has amazing picture quality with DVD. It was a tough choice for me, but my wife and I demoed the SP4805 at a local B&M store and we both really liked it. I really considered a LCD PJ, but I, personally, need great contrast to really enjoy...

Yes, I made sure to sink some screws through the sheetrock into the boxes before they did the mudding/texturing on the ceiling. The sheetrock does fine, not even any rattling! I also used silicone to seal the sheetrock in between the box and the ceiling so no air flows from the attic to the...

Making the wiring look pretty is going to be a challenge for me. My EQ rack is out the the open, so I really have to make it look good. At least yours is hidden!

I just got my seating in last night. I can't wait till I can sit down and enjoy my first movie in my theater. Sounds like you are thoroughly enjoying yours! U-571 probably sounds great! It will probably have to wait till Friday night because we are going out for my wife's birthday tonight...

Last night I did some touching up on the painting. I also installed the bass shakers in the couches and dragged them upstairs. I still need to get an amp and wire in the bass shakers though. I have wiring going through the riser over to the equipment rack, so it will be easy to do, I just need...

Heh... not quite and IB, the subs are in sealed boxs. Check the pics again. The first album has a few pics of the sub boxes being mounted. And, yes, I like my bass. But my neighbor doesn't...

Thanks for the input. I mounted the projector last weekend, and mounted the screen last night. Still have lots of work to do [mostly painting], but here are some updated pics: painted ceiling in back of theater painted ceiling front of theater subs with amps mounted in wall sub...

They are Adire Tempest 15" drivers. I had to build custom boxes that would fit between the rafters like that. The ceiling is painted black now, so they don't stand out as much anymore, you can sure feel them though! I got a pair of Apex Sr plate amps to power them from apexjr.com. I mounted the...

I am hoping to have my screen up in my HT so I can watch next week's MNF in HD. HD really shines in pro sports broadcasts. Your theater looks great, by the way. Those seats look comfortable! Great job!

Well, after lurking on these boards for over a year now, I finally was able to put some of the great ideas I've learned to use. I got the keys to my new house in July and have been working on my HT nearly every day since then. The HT is located in the "bonus" room. Since I was there since the...

Also, it is dependent on your projector. Usually you can sit closer to an LCD projector (1.5x), than you can a DLP projector (usually around 2x, although some say a little less is fine), without losing picture quality. Do your research on the projector you want and there will be good...

Looking good Steve. I'm glad to hear that your riser height is not going to be an issue. Keep it up. It's hard to keep going, but the end goal will be worth it. I am trying not to run out of energy. I have my first child due in five weeks and want my theater done before then, so that's...

Figure out what size fan you have, then get a quiet version from here: http://www.1coolpc.com Good luck.

That thread is where I started. I was in your position about six months ago, with my house just being built. Now I am a few weeks away from finally letting myself buy my PJ (as instructed to in the above mentioned thread) and start enjoying some movies again (I've not really enjoyed a good movie...

You can get soundboard from Home Depot and just tack them to your existing walls. You can paint it, or cover it with fabric. It has some pretty good sound absorbing properties, and will help out with the sound bleeding over into the other dwelling. It's not the perfect solution, but it may help...

I picked up speaker mounts from hometheaterdirect.com. They are cheap and did the job great. My speakers range in weight from 14-24 lbs (polk rti/csi series). These heavy duty metal mounts handle the weight fine. I just used lag screws to mount them to the studs. Just need to make sure that...

Depends on what you are doing with the room. If you are holding parties in the room, do the bar. My HT is for 100% DVDs and movie watching. Bars promote talking (especially by my mother-in-law) which are a no-no during movies at my place. The I'd love to see it the first time a drink is...

I was thinking about doing something similar to you Jay. The only problem I could think of was what if the rope light dies? You have to go and re-do all that wiring. I guess it depends on if you can hide an outlet or not, but I'm just going to put an outlet on the power line and plug the rope...

Yes. The pre-amp signal coming from you reciever is NOT amplified. As that travels through your room, the signal can be easily damaged by all sorts of "line noise". The RG6 cable provieds a nice shield for this signal. Regular speakers aren't really affected by this because their signals are...

Home Depot has adapters that change the "F" (not sure if this is what it's called, the one for your old TV) style cable end to an RCA cable end. I think you can also just get an RCA end that you can put on the end of a RG6 cable (I think I saw those at Home Depot). Anyway, just go to Home Depot...

I like the plexi idea with the pipe fittings for my (future) SP4805. That's probaly what I'm going to do. What thickness plexi will I need? I only remember the thin stuff at Home Depot. Do they have any thicker stuff there?

OTA broadcast? Yikes! :thumbsdown:

Good luck and stay motivated. I decided to not buy the projector until my theater is done. Otherwise, I'd just want to sit around and watch movies instead of working on the HT. The result has been me working on it every waking moment. :) I don't know if it's too late, but you may want to add...

Coax provides a very good shielded cable for the non-amplified sub signal. Amplified signals aren't as suseptable to interferance as non-amplified signals. The RG6 cable has great shielding and is pretty cheap.

Sounds like they were planning to put in some flush mount speakers in there. If you need speakers, I got mine from hometheaterdirect.com. I got some flush mounts for my living areas and some of their speaker mounts to mount my bookshelf speakers in my dedicated theater. I couldn't find much...

Looks very nice. How are you likeing that Z2? What is your distance from seating area to screen? I am building a very similar room (only dedicated) and am just wondering how you like your PJ performance. I like your color scheme as well. Good job!