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@lamywaby I'm no expert, I've only built one theater as seen in this thread. What I can tell you is I learned through all of my research that everyone touts the biggest and best things and it will make you think what you are trying to do is sub par. It's easy to go down the rabbit hole and...

I would say that's definitely big enough. If you look at the pictures of my room, it's about 13' across in the back part of the room where the seats are. It's right about 18' in length from the back wall to the screen. I have 2' behind the screen but with in wall speakers you could have the...

Yup, no 3D for me. If I want that I'll have to watch my old plasma in the game room. I originally planned to go 135". I set up the plastic sheet seen in the one picture and projected a test at 135" and 150". I was leaning towards the 135", feeling like maybe the 150" was too big. My wife liked...

I need to get some new pictures. There are some improvements since these most recent pictures. The black velvet under the screen I noted as well as black wire loom for the wires running to the AV rack out of the ceiling. Together those two things cleaned it up a lot. As for equipment here's the...

Pretty much done. This is where it was at the end of July. I have some black velvet stretched across the bottom right now to hide what's behind it but need to finish a proper masking panel. I was planning on masking panels all the way around but when the lights are out, the only things that show...

My false wall set up. I did the goal post design and made a separate frame for the screen that is hinged. This way I can flip it up and have access to the equipment behind the screen along with my Sony Vega for old school video gaming. I still have to get a prop set up done to hold it up.

It's fun now, we're getting equipment set up!

Installing Atmos speakers, lighting, and building the riser. I hired someone to do the carpet.

Putting down some paint. Crazy how much lower the ceiling feels when it's black.

Cutting holes for the lighting and speakers. I am a machinist by trade and already had measurements for everything. I told them to leave the drywall alone, I'll cut the holes myself to make sure it's right.

Framing done and Rockwool Safe 'n' Sound insulation in all of the walls and in the ceiling.

Note I decided to do in wall speakers, not what I had originally planned. To try and get the same sound from everything I did kind of make boxes for the side and rears in the framing. I used XTC ceiling speaker enclosures found on eBay for the Atmos speakers.

So I came here quite some time ago looking for ideas for my home theater and found out pretty quickly that this forum isn't really for that so I did most of my research and fact finding on the forum that specializes in that stuff. Anyways I get emails now and again from HTF and figured I should...

While I don't need it yet as I'm at least 2 month or more before having my theater room drywalled, I went ahead and bought an AVR. With the Denon X4700H on closeout with it's replacement coming, I felt like I should get it while I can. It's marked down to $1,499 and Denon gave me another $50 off...

I have no idea. I've been thinking about speakers and what's going to drive them. Haven't started researching projectors yet.

Yeah I haven't read up on sealed vs ported yet. That's on my to do list before I jump on anything.

Thanks for the thoughts. Sounds like I'm on the right track. Now I just need to get to building so I can get this going!

So after a bit of research, I think I've figured out my speaker set up, for the most part... Looking at doing Elac Debut 6.2 Towers up front and the low-profile on wall speakers for side and rear surrounds. That said I do have a couple of questions about the set up. Should I do a true center...

I was already thinking towers but wasn't sure. I've never had a good speaker system like this so I will lean in the direction of what others think that know better. I have read good things about the Elac's and think I've read that while a lot of people like Klipsch, some think they tend to sound...

I was looking at Klipsch but no experience with them. Looked up the Elac's and I like the low profile wall speakers. I think I'd prefer that over the in walls. Looks like I could get those for around 2k before the ceiling speakers. For the speakers behind the screen, would two bookshelf speakers...

So this was already planned to be a media room. It was after me and my wife watched a movie at a neighbors' basement theater that we decided we want one too! lol The whole movie experience with awesome sound and a projector that is...

Forgot to note, ceilings will be right about 8'7" high with the exception of a bulkhead 7'5" over the rear seats.

I am looking at building my first home theater and joined the forum yesterday to read and learn from others successes and mistakes. I introduced myself and a couple of people already seem eager to help so I figured I better get a build thread going. Right now I am just in the planning stage and...