home cinema setup

Nice bit of problem solving in a build posted this week. The screen is mounted on hinges along its top edge over a nook, with gas struts going in on either side so it swings up and holds itself there. Struts are still in progress. It is the kind of fix that only shows up when someone has a room...

There is a build doing the rounds that spends its first paragraph on acoustic treatment rather than gear, and it deserves the attention. Dedicated closed-off room, roughly 18 by 14 feet, and the owner treated the ceiling, the walls and the floor. Not foam squares on the front wall. His...

Someone just posted a first dedicated theater build that goes against the grain: 7.1.4 layout, Marantz Cinema 30 running it, and instead of a screen and projector the front of the room is a 115-inch TCL RGB TV. Ground speakers are Infinity Beta, ceiling channels are 8-inch KEF in-ceilings, gear...

The build that holds the all-time upvote record over on r/hometheater just got a two year update post, and the headline is the channel count. It went out as a 7.7.4 and it is now a 9.9.4. If I am reading that notation the way it is normally used over there, that is two more bed channels and two...

Someone over on AVForums has just started an extension and is planning two 65in sets: one wall-mounted in a 6m x 9m open plan kitchen and living space, and a second in the old kitchen once it is stripped out, a 12ft x 12ft room that becomes a dedicated cinema. Same model in both, the LG...