i was bored so i made this

[craig7]

the ultimate home theater, maybe

120" panasonic tv 18" subwoofers

3 htpc's

behind the seats, 5 18" subs

in the walls, 4 3 way speakers with 2 10" woofers, and a 2" tweeter

sony STR-DH700 7.1 receiver (very similar to the one i have), VCR, TIVO, Xbox 360 elite, ps3, blueray player.

buttkicker tactile transducers under every seat

9 subwoofers, 20 10" woofers, 10 2" tweeters, 3 1.5" tweeters, 6 8" woofers, 7 tactile transducers

took me 4 hours

 

[lsiberian]

Kinda cool, but 4 corner loaded subs is the most optimal sub placement according to the harman white papers.

If you want to see a real life theater that's awesome check out TLS Guy's setup.
http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=394697&postcount=1

 

[jamie2112]

Why in the world would you have a sony avr in there????

 

[lsiberian]

Why in the world would you have a sony avr in there????

Yeah I didn't even see that. You gotta have a pre-pro and a stack of pro-amps in there.

Not to mention no PJ?

You gotta have a PJ, vertical center behind an AT screen. I'd use those klipsch surround speakers for surrounds. Maybe the B&W 802d's for the fronts.

 

[dkane360]

Why 3 HTPC's? I'd go for one fully loaded mac pro

And this Denon, and one of these for every channel. For the speakers, a matching set of these Bowers and Wilkins.

And this is a nice home theater to look at: The Greatest Show on Earth

 

[highfigh]

I think I would use these-
http://www.dougronald.com/sound_images.htm

 

[j_garcia]

It includes a Sony receiver. Definitely NOT ultimate.

As mentioned, those subs are probably not going to work well the way they are setup.

 

[craig7]

well, i will re do this just for you guys

 

[craig7]

i can download a pre made emotiva xpa-5, would that work?
edit: they look the same so ill just use the xpa 5 and put xpa 1 on it

 

[j_garcia]

You are going to need a bit more than one XPA-5. That might handle one side of the room; you have like 15 speakers in there . For a home system, most likely don't need that many either. 7 would easily be plenty for an enclosed, treated room.

When you throw around terms like "Ultimate", I am thinking more along the lines of this:

http://stranger-worlds.blogspot.com/2010/09/most-expensive-home-theater-6-million.html

 

[craig7]

You are going to need a bit more than one XPA-5. That might handle one side of the room; you have like 15 speakers in there . For a home system, most likely don't need that many either. 7 would easily be plenty for an enclosed, treated room.

yea but this is about complete overkill, right now its 10.2, i want to do 22.2

 

[j_garcia]

I know, it is fun to play around with this stuff and props for the effort and taking it to the next level In reality though, I shoot for the simplest system that can get the job done well. Fewer components to do the job means fewer things to go wrong

 

[craig7]

I know, it is fun to play around with this stuff and props for the effort and taking it to the next level In reality though, I shoot for the simplest system that can get the job done well. Fewer components to do the job means fewer things to go wrong

soo true

 

[craig7]

Why 3 HTPC's? I'd go for one fully loaded mac pro

i was going to use one but i coldnt find a good model of one but i got one for it now, it is really mindblowing how awesome the mac pros can be

 

[craig7]

and since were doing overkill, im thinkin, 3 mac pros, 32gb ram each, 4tb hdd each. just them alone wopuld be about $90,000 because each of them would be about $28,000

 

[craig7]

my new additions

12 xpa-1's

2 subs in each corner

Two 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” (12 cores)
32GB (8x4GB)
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
Two ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Two 18x SuperDrives

 

[Davemcc]

You are going to need a bit more than one XPA-5. That might handle one side of the room; you have like 15 speakers in there . For a home system, most likely don't need that many either. 7 would easily be plenty for an enclosed, treated room.

When you throw around terms like "Ultimate", I am thinking more along the lines of this:

http://stranger-worlds.blogspot.com/2010/09/most-expensive-home-theater-6-million.html

I think I'd go with this one but I would have to clean it and reorganize to suit my style.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

I think I'd go with this one but I would have to clean it and reorganize to suit my style.

Oh I can't wait for that thread!

 

[Davemcc]

Oh I can't wait for that thread!

Seriously...who lines their amps up in a circle around the room.

 

[Alex2507]

Seriously...who lines their amps up in a circle around the room.

I would but a circle is hard to make with one receiver.