[edthemag]

I'm a newbie building a home theater room and need some help. My room will be 11'x13'x8' with hardwood floor, no windows. All walls/ceiling are plasterboard. Planned viewing is in the 11' direction. I'd like to make the wall behind the TV a half-wall, about 4' high. Behind that is another room 10' deeper and 15' wide. The half-wall is only to help the rooms feel open. Will this screw up my 7.1 surround? I'm more concerned with sound than aesthetics and will enclose the room if needed. Would appreciate any help, thanks.

[joseph westcott]

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Originally Posted by edthemag

I'm a newbie building a home theater room and need some help. My room will be 11'x13'x8' with hardwood floor, no windows. All walls/ceiling are plasterboard. Planned viewing is in the 11' direction. I'd like to make the wall behind the TV a half-wall, about 4' high. Behind that is another room 10' deeper and 15' wide. The half-wall is only to help the rooms feel open. Will this screw up my 7.1 surround? I'm more concerned with sound than aesthetics and will enclose the room if needed. Would appreciate any help, thanks.

It is not advised to place your speakers on the long wall of a room. Especially a room that approaches a square dimension like yours.

I would reconsider usiing the entire space with no walls and placing the display and speakers on the short wall. Seating distance should be 2/3 back from the speakers/display.

[gartronics]

I have heard that hard wood floors will make your sound very echoed. I would try to put down a rug or something to deaden the sound on the floor. Or if you are not to attached to the hard wood floor than cover it with carpet. I had a theater set up in a place with hard wood floors but I had a 5X8 Rug and it sounded fine. Something to think about though.