What is your dream home theater?

[bhampton]

quote "But I was wondering how much you think you spent on everything not including building your own room?"

Well,... I stopped keeping the reciepts when I was building the room as it was going to get depressing.

For the other stuff.... The Paradigm speakers were at the time the second from the bottom in price so the 5.1 (yes,... I built before the 7.1 came about) set of speakers was about $800. The Denon AVR was refurbished for $309... It's the 788... again a low end model but takes PCM from HDMI and does good things with it. My projector was 20,000 when new in 2001 but I bought it used for $400 and then put all new tubes in for $2100 making the total $2500.

Then there's the 60GB PS3 from Nov 06 which was $599 and the Harmony universal remote which was about $100. My mom bought my sconces from a theater that was being torn down .... I don't know how much those were. My DIY screen cost about $40.

Looks like $4349.

Many people will see that gear as low end but I couldn't be enjoying it more. It's good enough to watch sober.

Quote "would love to See photos of your theater room dude! "

There's a few pics in the theater pics thread on this forum if that still exists. I'm not a master capenter and didn't do any fancy woodwork or anything. It's purely functional. I even put up a few of the drywall sheets backwords by mistake so they got wavy after painting. It's not perfect but I couldn't be happier with it.

I plan to take more and better pix soon to put in my HT gallery here but haven't got to it yet.


-Brian


EDIT - I remembered some of the number wrong and updated them.