🏡 Better Homes blue-sun's basement home theater
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Yeah I thought I posted about paining. The thought at first was black but realizing I don’t HAVE to go black let’s us choose a different dark color for the walls. Dark grey, navy blue, maroon. Etc. We will decide on a color later and paint away. This thread will be kept alive later this year with minor updates like that. Oh and I think I want to cut a hole in my workshop wall and build shelf’s inside there for all the equipment. Saw a post on Reddit that had that and I want to do that now, get rid of the IKEA cube.
I painted my wall black, then did the wood planks. Then a 75" peasant TV, no projector here, I'm poor.
This was put together piece meal, receiver and 3.1. Then 5.1. Then proper seating. Speakers can be upgraded later. This has been 6-8 years in the making. Slowly and surely it’ll be done!
So the sales guy called me just now after his all day meeting with an update. The projector we ordered, Epson 4010 is out of stock. They have the next one up, Epson 4050 in stock and they are selling it to us for the same price as the 4010.
Don’t know exactly when it will be installed, but it will be ASAP.
He was off work and called me with a solution when he really didn’t have to. Top notch customer service, I’d recommend him 100%.
Don’t know exactly when it will be installed, but it will be ASAP.
He was off work and called me with a solution when he really didn’t have to. Top notch customer service, I’d recommend him 100%.
Finally mounted the ATMOS speakers as high as I can get them and tilted as far down as I can. View from each seat, left to right. No bad seats in the house if you ask me.
Not enough physical space in the room for 5 seats.
I could have done a 3 seater, but that leaves 1 of the kids without a chair. Doing the best that I can in the space that I have with the budget that I have. It's never going to be perfect and ideal, but it is going to be awesome either way and 100% better than watching on old misc seats on a 65" with "just" a 5.1 setup.
So, along those lines. When you finally get things setup and calibrated, watch the ending credits to For All Mankind, S1 Ep 10. They mixed Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and the sound stage is phenomenal. Feels like you are in a concert hall, makes the room feel so much bigger than it is.
On re-watching the show, I've noticed that the sound engineer they hired for For All Mankind really knows his stuff. The Atmos mix is phenomenal, especially at the beginning and end when they use some big name songs in the credits.
I do have some Dolby Atmos raw demo files, and I own Hans Zimmer "Live in Prague" which is an Atmos mix.
On re-watching the show, I've noticed that the sound engineer they hired for For All Mankind really knows his stuff. The Atmos mix is phenomenal, especially at the beginning and end when they use some big name songs in the credits.
I do have some Dolby Atmos raw demo files, and I own Hans Zimmer "Live in Prague" which is an Atmos mix.
I was actually planning on rewatching that show, among a few others in this hella large format.
If we ever get a projector, that is. Got an email confimation from BB randomly around 3PM, appointment is March 23rd. Need to confirm that with my guy, wasn’t able to talk to him today.
Man, awesome build. I built a home theater in my house 10 years ago. Still enjoy the hell out of it today. Same size screen as you.
Definitely focus on getting a big ass rug and some acoustic treatments up next and paint those walls. Also, sub placement is difficult and always a compromise between asthetics and perfect location. Get some low frequency bass clips and walk around the room and see where the bass fades out and then mess around with the placement. When your done invite us over for a movie!
Definitely focus on getting a big ass rug and some acoustic treatments up next and paint those walls. Also, sub placement is difficult and always a compromise between asthetics and perfect location. Get some low frequency bass clips and walk around the room and see where the bass fades out and then mess around with the placement. When your done invite us over for a movie!
I paid for a year of Best But Total Tech as part of this. Included in that is their tech will fine tune the audio for me.
Really looking forward to being done and start using it!
Talked(texted) with the Magnolia BB today. Confirmed that the new projector is slightly delayed, due to be shipped by March 15th (not sure if to my house or the local BB store like the screen was) with an install date of March 23rd. If the projector arrives earlier than the 15th and their install tech finishes a job earlier than expected and is near by, he’ll come sooner.
That being said, we’ve decided paint down here before then. Wall with screen will be painted black. Rest of the walls will be painted either a dark blue or dark red.
Plan is to grab some color samples tomorrow at HD or Menards, I’ve got to get a container of small sparkle to fill some holes and get the walls ready for paint between now and the 15th. We should be able to paint in a weekend. Prep first then paint.
That being said, we’ve decided paint down here before then. Wall with screen will be painted black. Rest of the walls will be painted either a dark blue or dark red.
Plan is to grab some color samples tomorrow at HD or Menards, I’ve got to get a container of small sparkle to fill some holes and get the walls ready for paint between now and the 15th. We should be able to paint in a weekend. Prep first then paint.
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