New Room- layout recommendations

[NorCalRP]

I am moving into a new house, and there is a sitting room within the master suite. The room is 16 ft by 11 ft. The volume is about 1550 cubic feet. The room can be completely closed off. I currently have a 5.3.2 setup (my AVR is the Denon 4400 and I am running the mini DSP with Dirac plug-in). In that size room I'm honestly not sure if I will need to use all three subwoofers- two SVS pc2000 and a HSU VTF-3 MK4. It's got me thinking that I might just go with the two SVS and put the HSU downstairs in my 2.1 setup. My questions are:

1) given that I usually don't exceed 85 or 90 DB for my output requirements, and the volume of the room being what it is, would the two SVS be sufficient?;

And, 2) given the layout of the room, I am thinking of putting the TV in front of that window. The back wall in the room does not go all of the way across so I think the spacing on the left and right front towers would be funky. I'm totally okay with the television blocking the view out the window as it will be a dedicated room and I'll have blackout curtains. I'm thinking that the 16 feet in length of the room will work out better since I have two rows of seating.

Thoughts?

 

[mtrycrafts]

What's it look like where you were standing to take a picture?

Don't think you want to set up something in that bay window unless you mount a motorized screen on that flat surface above the window.

 

[John Parks]

Hey - are those Barcelona chairs genuine? Sweet!

Did you get kicked out of the living room or is this a different system?

 

[John Parks]

I agree with @mtrycrafts in that I would not put a TV in the bay window area unless it was retractable. A couple speakers in front of that area for music only can look nice. Never mind - I reread your whole post and the stuff about the blackout curtains... The dimension of the wall with the picture of the severed horse head looks generous enough for a system with listening/viewing on the opposite wall.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I agree with @mtrycrafts in that I would not put a TV in the bay window area unless it was retractable. A couple speakers in front of that area for music only can look nice. Never mind - I reread your whole post and the stuff about the blackout curtains... The dimension of the wall with the picture of the severed horse head looks generous enough for a system with listening/viewing on the opposite wall.

Thanks.
I failed to read all the way through, my bad.
That settles it, have the TV in front of the windows.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Two rows of seating facing the windows. An electric tab-tensioned screen that drops down in front of the window area, and blackout roller shades on the windows.

Paint the room black.

What's funny, is I looked at the photos and made these recommendations basically as a joke. It really is a decent layout for a 110" projection setup doing exact this, and seems to be the direction you were headed to begin with. HA!

 

[NorCalRP]

What's it look like where you were standing to take a picture?

Don't think you want to set up something in that bay window unless you mount a motorized screen on that flat surface above the window.

I agree, but from an imaging standpoint, the wall behind the pic is less than ideal. It does not span the full width of the room- just about 7' of it. The mains and center would be sticking into the most natural place to walk to and from the bath and bedroom (the master bath is off the sitting area, the pocket door in the pic leads to the bedroom).

If your comment alludes to something other than acoustic performance, it's not a really tremendous concern. I have a 65" tv. Projector and motorized screen probably won't enter the budget until next year (thinking it'll cost me at least $5k for something decent), as I've dropped about $20k on the move.

 

[NorCalRP]

Hey - are those Barcelona chairs genuine? Sweet!

Did you get kicked out of the living room or is this a different system?

This us my system, but moving into a different house. I'll be putting a 2.1 in the living room. I don't want the theater equipment in there.

Those are photos from the staging folks. I imagine they're reproductions.

 

[NorCalRP]

Two rows of seating facing the windows. An electric tab-tensioned screen that drops down in front of the window area, and blackout roller shades on the windows.

Paint the room black.

What's funny, is I looked at the photos and made these recommendations basically as a joke. It really is a decent layout for a 110" projection setup doing exact this, and seems to be the direction you were headed to begin with. HA!

I should hire you as my dedicated purchase agent! Hell, we all like to spend other people's money here, huh?

 

[NorCalRP]

I should hire you as my dedicated purchase agent! Hell, we all like to spend other people's money here, huh?

Oh Christ- now I'm looking at projectors!!!

 

[mtrycrafts]

Oh Christ- now I'm looking at projectors!!!

Well, you came here for input and we know how to spend other peoples money for them.

I have a drop down screen from my ceiling to handle that projector. Built a very nice box around it as I did for that projector.

 

[shadyJ]

Regarding your original question, I think two PC-2000s would get you the adequate SPLs, but three subs is always better for a smoother response, of course. Do you have a way to measure the response?

 

[BMXTRIX]

Oh Christ- now I'm looking at projectors!!!

As you should! Any room that a human calls their 'home theater setup' - should be using front projection. Under 100" and it's just a TV.

If someone is willing to have a dedicated space, it certainly allows for what home theater can really deliver. Of course, JVC at $5,000 and BenQ at $1,500 give slightly different results.

 

[NorCalRP]

So I got the keys to my new house yesterday. It's kind of a sweet situation for me- someone bought the house for me to lease, which is nice because of anything goes wrong I don't have to pay for it. I'm not looking to buy a house anytime soon, as I don't plan on moving until I build my own place.

With that being said, the landlord gave me permission to throw some in ceiling speakers up for the Atmos effects. However, I saw on accessories4less that they have some Canton elevation speakers, just like the SVS Primes. The difference is that they are $200 less a pair. My question is: do you think that this would work better? My thought here is that by putting them upside down, with the midwoofee higher up than the tweeter, I can get them firing pretty much directly down.

Also, with the room being 16 feet long, and assuming that my first row of seating will be about 7 ft back, making the second row about 11 ft back, that I have adequate space for doing a 7.3.4 setup, with side and rear surrounds?