Flatnate's Theater Build

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Originally Posted by Flatnate

Quick Update!

Well, I'm moved in. I've spent my first month pretty much catching up on all the little repairs in the home the previous owner neglected prior to sale that snuck past inspection. So far out I'm a new kitchen faucet, a new toilet, and a leaking chimney. Next up is major exterior scraping and painting. Hoping to take advantage of the few cool weeks we have in Minnesota before summer gets oppressive. Once it gets hot, I figure I'll retreat to working in the cool of the basement.

Things of note so far, the room has no furniture now... and it seems to be an echo chamber. Clap your hands and you can hear the sound bounce back. Hopefully some furniture will help but I can see investing in acoustic panels at some point in time as well. I have even wondered if some full size canvas 27x40 movie posters wouldn't help.

I'm still up in the air on painting the ceiling black. I am tempted now to hang a few black acoustic panels in front of the screen from the ceiling with LED lights above them. However, the issue is that the ceiling is incredibly low. Only like 7 foot 2 inches. Due to the low height, I can't afford to have much of a drop with any suspended panel.

Next issue is speaker placement in the rear of the room to do a full 7.1 configuration. The hallway leading to the back office and bedroom kinda sits in the optimal rear right speaker location. As does the hallway leading to the bathroom and equipment closet. (Edit... this is probably the biggest challenge I have with the space).

Another issue that will be a pain is in that my monitors actually run on un-amplified line level outputs, so I need to get them line level signal from my pre/pro. In addition if I ever return to traditional passive speakers I would like to have standard cable ran as well. So wiring could be a real chore with running both 2 strand grounded and standard cabling.

Next week I have a friend who will help me begin cutting in to the wall under the stairs that connects to the closet. I plan to set my rack back in to the wall, extending it in to the closet. where I can access it from the rear.. in the closet (....giggity).

Great update indeed. Congrats on moving in. Welcome to home ownership. If I had nickel every time someone said that. Usually the items that sneak buy during inspection are hit and miss. I'll spare you my debacle but I deff felt like hitting someone when I got the estimate and when I paid the bill I wanted to go on a rampage.

Glad to hear that your repairs were not to catastrophic although I cant imagine the repair on the chimney being your idea of being fun.

IDK if you recall me saying that I did not care for your color choices. They just didn't capture my attention. But after this wkend I deff owe you an apology.

I helped my lady's brother install some gear in his HT and you were the first person I thought of.

I guess its one of those things that you have to physically see to truly appreciate. His furniture is red. Think over sized chairs not quite a love seat. But room enough for two and big enough to lay back with your feet up. The Walls are two tone a matte dark blue the bottom half is a some kinda charcoal grey and the molding is some kinda colour grey mixed w blue. The carpet is blue and red and grey paisley. He said that they are a couple of area rugs they had the the seams matched up to fill the space. He said he designed his theater after the Man of Steal. Although the colours look vibrant they are dark shades.

I had to pick my jaw up. When my lady said I'd enjoy his room she wasn't kidding. I asked if they could adopt me lol. You deff have a good eye for colour because I couldn't see it coming together like that.

I asked if I could take pics and he said he didn't feel comfortable with it and I respect that. If he ever changes his mind I'll shoot you some pics!!