home theater setup

If you are about to build a media wall, mock the screen height up with cardboard and sit in your actual sofa for an evening before anything gets fixed to studs. The alternative is what a poster on r/hometheater just spent a couple of years living with: a wall built properly, looking good, with...

There is a nearly finished room doing the rounds that is worth a look for the mounting idea alone. The space is about 11 by 14 feet, which is not a lot, and the owner has a 7.4.4 in it with four subwoofers. KEF R3 Meta up front, an R6 Meta, CI160QS in the surrounds, CI130.2CR for the tops, a...

Saw a build worth talking about: someone moved from a house in Canada to an apartment in Chicago and carved a 10 by 10 viewing area out of a big living room. Their conclusion after living with it is that they mostly watch at night, because the room is too bright the rest of the time, and they...

Someone asked why finding a console that fits real gear is so hard, and I am not sure people outside this hobby understand how bad it has got. His pile: a Cambridge CXA81 at roughly 17 inches deep, a pair of Cambridge monoblocks around 16, a Switch, a Series X, plus the usual scatter of small...

Someone posted a bedroom setup asking whether the equilateral triangle rule is a make-or-break thing, and it is worth pulling apart because that rule gets repeated here like scripture. Their numbers were roughly ten and a half feet back from the speakers, about nine feet of separation, and a...

Someone finished a basement build this summer and the part that caught me was not the theater itself, it was the room outside it. Eleven by fourteen for the main space with a projector, then an overflow room through the doors with a sectional seating eight and an LG CX with a soundbar, and an...

A bedroom setup post caught my attention because the numbers in it are the ones people agonise over for no good reason. Roughly ten and a half feet back from the speakers, the pair about nine feet apart, and the question is whether the room needs rearranging to widen that spacing because...

Someone on r/hometheater posted a diagram of two USB fans sat beside a Denon S770H, plugged into the receiver's own USB port, meant to pull hot air out sideways. There is apparently plenty of room either side but only an inch to an inch and a half above the unit. I have been in exactly that spot...

Someone bought a house that came with a dedicated theater already built in the basement. Dated, but good bones, and he is not looking to spend heavily, just make it usable and reasonably future proof while he replaces pieces. What is in the rack now: a Marantz SR8002 with what sounds like a...

Good thread over on the home theater side. Someone finished rebuilding their room, sat down, and realised the white French doors were now the brightest thing in it. Under a hundred dollars of black velvet and Dacron from Amazon, a staple gun, a brad nailer and some door trim from a hardware run...

Good writeup doing the rounds and it is the constraints that make it worth reading, not the gear list. TCL 85QM851G, Denon X1700H, KEF Q350 across the front with the rear ports plugged, Polk XT15 for surrounds, two RSL Speedwoofer 10e subs, and a miniDSP 2x4 HD in the chain. The rental part is...