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This is my poor photoshop of the thing.
Sorry for posting so much, just excited about this and also ready for my guy to finish it.
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Home Theater/Game Room Thread
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This is my poor photoshop of the thing.
Sorry for posting so much, just excited about this and also ready for my guy to finish it.
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Honestly I have the same concern about the subs. My backup plan will be one large sub behind the couch I guess.
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Agree. There’s actually cavities about 6-8” thick around the entire speaker area that are filled with the same material ATS acoustics puts in their sound panels. I had almost 20 2’x4’ panels in the room so my guy cut them all open and harvested the stuff to put in there. Good thing I wasn’t going to use them again!
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That wooden box is an echo chamber. You want to hear the speakers, not the speakers plus delayed sound waves reflecting off the sides and walls.
Absorption Behind Speakers and Rear Wall Diffusion – Acoustic Fields
“Should you use absorption behind the speakers and diffusion on the rear wall?” That’s the area where you have the most low-frequency problems.
www.acousticfields.com
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Update! The thing is mostly faced out. The special trim around the cabinets is in place. The pilasters are mostly done. Tomorrow I think we are doing the big head piece that will be above the pilasters. Then just shelves and doors. And crown. It should be finished this week. He really did a good job. All the big seams are areas that are going to be covered up. Like the main seams on the front are covered with pilasters. And the seams above the pilaster will mostly be covered with the head piece. Really well done.
I'm debating paint colors. Most of my house walls are benjamin moore paper white, and trim is benjamin moore simply white. I was worried that this would look like a big wart if it was all benjamin moore paper white. So I thought about a non-white/gray color, like some kind of french blue. But that's a huge thing to paint. It's literally 10 (or 11 or 12?) feet tall and 14 feet wide. But I was worried about if the crown should match the rest of the room or if that whole wall (theater and crown) should just be one color. And if I go with some weird gray (benjamin moore metropolitan gray) then the walls are a different shade of gray, etc, it may look weird. So I don't know.
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Oh I agree, the WHOLE room was black, this was the blackest room I've ever seen in my life. You could look up at the corners of the room and they were invisible because it was so black. It felt like a dark, depressing dungeon. I hated it. I'm going way lighter, and I'm going to make the room beautiful like a living room that happens to have a theater in it. I know it won't be optimal but I'm definitely getting away from the black!
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Getting there. Just a little trim on top corners and below the screen, shelves, and doors remaining. Probably two more days.
I get frustrated with the speed but I have to remind myself it’s all custom woodwork and like it’s not off the shelf. Like the pilasters have the raised panel trim, but inset to that is a little baby crown that he routed/milled out in my garage. I think the proportions are all legit and it looks great. Painter coming Monday to get started. My dream is theater functional in two weeks.
(the screen here is bent, it’s my throwaway mockup screen)
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