New Construction - Wanna do it right!

[chugger]

Hi Everyone!

I'm new here but wanted to kick off my newness with a question or advice thread. My wife and I will be building a new home and I don't wanna do anything cliche like I'm doing now. I have a 60inch tv, with Yamaha receiver, 5 speaker setup, and its all on a stand and wires are run to the speakers over the ground.

Now is the time I can build something and do it right with in wall wiring and banana plates/jacks, etc. I do wiring all the time so I can handle that and know how I'm gonna do it. My issue is with the command center part of things.

Does anyone have any good pics, links or anything that would help? I was thinking of building out or extending the wall with a small enclosed area to put my receiver and other streaming devices so I don't have to use a stand. My TV would hang from the wall, and everything else would be in the wall sorta speak.

What are my options here?

 

[Bryce_H]

Welcome to the journey of building your own HT. I did mine several years ago with the understanding that the most important thing in a HT is the room (i.e. not equipment). So I spent a lot of time researching how to actually build a HT. Most resources focus on the equipment or placement. That said if you go back through a lot of my old posts they focus on the building of the HT. I tried to attach a compilition (now several years old) from an old thread on another forum called "I wish I..." but for some reason the upload process kept crashing. I'll keep trying...

 

[Bryce_H]

Ok, I switched browsers (got to love IE). Several things are attached:
HT Layout - my HT
Wish Id done - a list of things that other people said in retrospec that they had done in their theater. Gave me a LOT of ideas (and design changes)
Home Theater Design Blank - an excel spreadsheet I built years ago to help me with room dimensions and viewing angles
Pics of my theater (minus some acoustic panels that are now there)

Also pop over to http://www.acoustics101.com/common/acoustics101v3_0.pdf to download the PDF. It actually discusses HT construction from an acoustics perspective and contains a lot of good info.

Again - good luck and keep asking questions.

 

[herbu]

I was thinking of building out or extending the wall with a small enclosed area to put my receiver and other streaming devices so I don't have to use a stand. My TV would hang from the wall, and everything else would be in the wall sorta speak.

Don't forget ventilation. If you're gonna enclose your AVR and other components "in the wall", I think you should plan on vents and fans. Also, consider access to plug/unplug wires.

 

[Bryce_H]

I have a "closet" in the back of my room for all my gear. It has both front and rear doors to get to all the equipment. It is ventilated and I ran 2.5 inch conduit from all locations to this closet (including the projector mount area). This allows me to swap out cables if I ever need to rather than re-running them through the wall. I already benefited from this by pulling out my component cables and running an HDMI.