About 6 years ago my wife and I built a new home. I wired up the bonus room for HT use and it was gonna be awesome! Theeeennnnnn.... the first mortgage payment came in and I realized the HT wasn't going to happen.
We sold the house a few years later and re-built. I, again, made the bonus room purposed for HT. We moved in last July. Since then I've been saving pennies and going back and forth with gear. Ultimately winding up building my own towers (you can view the build thread
here). In a somewhat rash move, I pulled the trigger on the projector and screen. Then I went selling a ton of stuff to try to recoup the money so my wife wouldn't kill me.
I'm now almost finished with the room. Speakers are built, amp rack is built, everything is wired up and making music. I still have some things here and there to do. Obviously the screen still needs to be mounted to the wall (110" fixed screen). I need to add acoustic panels here and there. Still need to configure the Rane DSPs and get the sound system EQ'd and all that jazz. etc, etc, etc. But, I can do all that as I go. The important part is that I've finally got all the major pieces to the puzzle. I am pscyched!
My 3.5 yo has requested Beauty and the Beast as our first movie. I'm looking forward to watching some "daddy" movies with some b-b-b-b-b-b-bass.
Just wanted to share my excitement. I know there are many guys here who have some killer setups. Glad I'm able to finally join in the ranks of a fellow HT dude.
Just in case anyone cares, here's the specifics:
Room size: Approx 17x26x8 with 5ft knee-walls.
Source: Oppo BDP-103 (feeds directly in to Rane DSPs). AppleTV or DirecTV feed in to the HDMI input as a 2nd source.
Projector: Epson 8350 (refurb)
Screen: Visual Apex 110" (got a good package deal)
Front L/R Speakers:
3-way Active with Kef concentric and Scan 10" powered off Crown amps and processed with Rane RPM26Z[/URL]
Additional Processing: Rane RPM88 to process sides, center, and subs
Center: Kef R200c
Surrounds: Kef Q100 on wall-mounts
Subs: JL Audio E112
Here's a couple pictures taken with the cell phone.
Speakers are in place and wired up with the rack back in the closet.
Got the PJ mounted. Didn't have time to assemble the screen but I couldn't resist throwing the image on the wall just to see what it would be like. Hope to have the screen up by Friday for our first movie night.