How to size a room for Home Theatre
Ok, so you ready to build that new home theatre room you have been dreaming about forever. You convinced your wife, that prices have dropped as low as they can go and you compromised on making part of the finished basement an exercise room. So do you know where to start? Sure, you say, I’ll go out and buy the biggest TV I can get through the basement door and the most powerful subwoofer know to humankind. Hold on a minute Mr. 2000” TV. Size does matter but I’m talking about room size here! Yes a properly sized display and a high quality subwoofer are essential to the theatre experience but there is something that is even more crucial. The room! That’s right! Believe it or not the room is the most important part of the equation. If you are blessed with the opportunity to start from scratch when planning your new Home Theatre there are many factors to consider to obtain superior sound and visual bliss.
Here are some very basics rules:
- Never build a perfectly square room or a room with dimensions of exact multiples. Example: 10’ X 20’, 15’ x 30’, 16.5” x 33”…… unless of course you really like to hear echo, echo, echo. Just alter the dimensions somewhat like: 10’ 4” x 20’. It doesn’t take much.
- Minimize the use hard materials such as; tile, glass, stone and metal. Think soft and absorbent; Rugs, carpets, fabric.
- Dedicate your room as a cinema room. There nothing wrong with putting the pool table and bar in its own room. You can always add a TV in the rec room.
- Avoid opening into another room. Sound like four properly dimension walls to bounce off.
- Choose the display wall and seating arrangement paying particular attention to the size of the TV in relation to the seating distance. See the previous article on “Sizing your new TV”.
- Layout speaker location. The attached link is a great resource for laying out a surround sound theatre
- Locate display height for ideal viewing from as many seats as possible but with particular attention to the main seating. It is most desirable to look straight into the center of the display while seated. In a true theatre seating arrangement it is more desirable to step up rear seating by 6” than to raise the screen.
More than the basic:
http://www.dolby.com/consumer/home_entertainment/roomlayout.html
http://www.hometheaterbuilder.com/issue/OptRmDim.htm
http://cedia.net/homeowners/acoustical.php
http://www.hometheatermag.com/bootcamp/140/
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/surround_sound.asp
2 comments:
. They recline quite far back as you can see and can still be set pretty close to the wall. The chairs are made by Vanguard HTS and are called Charlize.
With a typical Filipino home fond of 'videoke' and movie marathons specially during holidays, this home theater projection would be an ideal alternative for large families with a large number of audience. It can project movies of up to 300 inches of crisp,
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