New construction 5.1 setup

[cdesangles]

Hello, just joined to drink from the juice of knowledge that this website's forum has. I'm going to move next year into an apartment that is right now in construction giving me the right playground to bring on all the toys I want.

Room specs:
Size: 12.63 ft x 12 ft (3.85 mt x 3.66 mt)
Entrance: sliding wood panel with glass, to be covered with cloth drapes
Window: aluminum frame with double glass window, to be covered with cloth drapes
Floor: to be determined, the constructor will provide us with marble floors, but this hasn't been laid out
Ceiling: to be determined, but will add a plaster design to add lightnings, wifi equipment etc..
AC: will be installing an in wall central air conditioning, the actual thing will be out of the house, not close to the room

Furniture:
Seating: L Sofa on the bottom and right wall
Tables: table on the left and one in front of the sofa
Wall art: at the moment we have some picture frames with glass
Instruments: we have a guitar, an ukulele and a saxophone (won't be using it, but nice decor) which would ideally all be hanged somewhere on the right wall

Proposed gear:
Front Speakers: 2 RP-240D - $600
Center Channel: 1 RP-240D - $300
Sub woofer: 1 Klipsch R-120SW - $329
Back Speakers: 2 RP-140D - $400
Receiver: 1 Marantz AV Receiver NR1509 - $549
In ceiling: 4 Klipsch CDT-5650-C II - $1,040
Wiring: to be honest, haven't thought about this - $100
Total gear - $3,218

I'm looking for suggestions on:

Gear:
Speakers: I love Klipsch, does 3 RP-240D and (front + center) and 2 RP-140D (back) good enough? should it be any other configuration? I'd eventually like to upgrade to two subs
Receiver: would like to setup a 3 room setup, one home theater, dining / living room and a kitchen area
In ceiling: 3 CDT-5650-C II for the living room, 1 for the kitchen area, are these enough?

Room acoustics:
Floor: thought of wood but I read it has a lot of reflection, does wood with floor dampening on the bottom work? Will this even matter if I put a rug on top of it?
Wall art: glass on the frames reflect, is there a solution on how to put these arts without glass but that preserves posters?
Instruments: should I hide these somewhere else?
AC: should I dampen this?

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

 

[shadyJ]

The Klipsch in-walls should be fine for in-walls. The sub should be OK since you can't really jam it very loud in an apartment to begin with. However, it wouldn't be my first choice. I would be looking at entry-level subs from SVS, Hsu Research, and Monoprice Monolith. As for room acoustics, definitely use a rug, and the thicker of a rug the better. As for wall art, that will be a reflecting surface, but it might not be a big deal. I wouldn't worry about that unless they take up a huge surface area. As for AC damping, that is best taken care of during the construction phase. You need to talk to an acoustician about that.

 

[cdesangles]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply! These Klipsch models are on-wall though, not in wall.

Since I'm on the construction phase, the AC dampening will be surely implemented.

The Klipsch in-walls should be fine for in-walls. The sub should be OK since you can't really jam it very loud in an apartment to begin with. However, it wouldn't be my first choice. I would be looking at entry-level subs from SVS, Hsu Research, and Monoprice Monolith. As for room acoustics, definitely use a rug, and the thicker of a rug the better. As for wall art, that will be a reflecting surface, but it might not be a big deal. I wouldn't worry about that unless they take up a huge surface area. As for AC damping, that is best taken care of during the construction phase. You need to talk to an acoustician about that.

 

[HTfreak2004]

Your room is quite small, so until you actually get in there and calibrate your system to work with the room it is like playing darts in the dark. Your room is almost square which will create more low frequency issues. Room treatment will definitely need to be factored in but again without being in the completed room with your proposed gear how can you expect to address all the potential issues? “Enough” is a personal choice that will be better answered once you hear your system in the room and have the feedback the room gives you on your system/room interaction. I have placed my gear in 6 different places from apts to single family homes and from my own experience none of the 6 rooms have the same acoustic feedback that the other rooms had. Each time I needed to find the position for each speaker/sub and make some tweaks to hear what I wanted. The bottom line is you’ll know for sure once your setup and putting it to the test!