Hello again everyone. I'm once again under construction here, rebuilding the theater in my new home.
This new theater will be in the family room (no longer confined to the basement!). The room has an existing brick fireplace, which I had considered removing, but it would only buy me 8 inches of depth in the room, and dad convinced me that down the road, having this tucked away may help sell the house...and leaving it there is a WHOLE LOT easier.
The new room brings some new challenges with light control (bay window, back door, and adjacent kitchen), but some advantages (open windows=music on the patio, spillover seating in the kitchen, and the space for 2 rows of seating).
Here's the latest plan for the room...I will be going down to a 2 column equipment rack, and locating the amplifiers in the garage...heat management will be a whole lot easier, and I don't need to dress up all the amplifiers with nice face plates, and best of all I'll be able to keep the wire runs to the speakers very short. Unfortunately, with the limitations of the room, my rear channels can no longer be UREI's, I just don't have the space...so I'll be custom building back channels this time around.
Construction is underway. I've already framed the front wall, half wall, and most of the riser. I decided to go with 2x6 for the front wall this time...stronger can't hurt.
I also have room this time around for two rows of seating. I realized that there would be considerable volume in the riser, so figured why not let it double as a sub-woofer cabinet as well. This will only be used to augment the main sub-woofers in the front of the room, I'm suspecting I'll need to compromise on the level due to the tactile effect we experience from sitting on top of this "cabinet".
I'll keep you all posted on the progress, I'm very excited about getting this room back together.
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