Kingofgrills Home Theater / Gameroom Project

[kingofgrills]

I am finally opening up a gallery thread for my home theater / gameroom project. This project has been ongoing since I built the house four years ago, so it has been a long work in progress. It's still not complete, so please keep that in mind as you look through the photos. Oh, and I only have a few photos up, but more will be added as I get time.

Here is a list of my components:

Speakers:

Mains: Aura LSM-828M w/Realistic Super Tweeters
Center: Aura LSC-537M w/ Realistic Super Tweeter
Surround: RCA Pro-LX 550
Rear: Aura LSC-537M
Subwoofer: Miller & Kreisel MX-125 Mk. II


Gear:

Sony KDS 50-A2000 Grand Wega SXRD Microdisplay
Yamaha HTR-6080 (RX-V861) 7.1 Ch Natural Sound Receiver
Sony PS3 60 GB (now 320 GB) - Blu-ray, DVD, SACD, CD, media server, and games
Phillips CDR-760 CD Recorder
Toshiba DVR3 DVD Recorder
Comcast HD (Motorola HD DVR)
Logitech Harmony 880 with Blu Wave PS3 adapter

Line Conditioner and Surge Protection:

Whole house surge protector - installed outside at the meter
Monster Reference Power Conditioner 3500 Mk II
Monster Power SW 200 Subwoofer Surge Protector

Cabling:

XLO Electric Reference speaker cables (mains)
Blue Jeans interconnects and component cables
Blue Jeans Belkin subwoofer cables
Monster Cable Ultralink 600 and Monoprice HDMI cables, 8 Ft.


Seating:

Berkline 13175 Home Theater Seats


The room itself is approximately 25' L x 17.5' W, and approximately 1/3 of that space is used as the theater area, with the rest being the gameroom. The eventual plan is to add a wet bar on the opposite area of the room, with a billiard table to go with the existing poker table. Of course none of this can be seen with the current photos that are loaded.

As for the home theater area, during the planning and construction phase I worked with Genesis Home Technologies to map out the room configuration and whole house wiring. The room was setup for a 6.1 channel setup, and that is what I'm currently running. It was also wired for ethernet, along separate HD feeds for cable and satellite.

I am finally finishing up decorating the room, and I'm happy to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I recently painted the room, and hung a movie themed border around the room. There are windows on the left side of the room, so to control light and reduce audible refractions, I hung heavy duty cinema styled blackout curtains. Besides helping performance, they also bring a little old school theater feel to the room.

My final project right now is the addition of an entertainment center to house the TV and all my gear. My wife just gave me the one I wanted as a birthday present, and now I'm in the process of assembling it. There's a sample picture of the unit in the gallery. It's currently white, but I'd like to change the color to better match the warmer tones used throughout the room. If you have any color suggestions, please let me know.

I promise I'll add a lot more photos real soon. I need to download them from the camera.