is this set up any good for home theatre????

johnmc

Hi guys and girls,

I would be very appreciative if someone could advise. I am currently building a home theater room. The room is approx 16 foot by 20 foot. The video will be a projector on to the 16 foot wide wall, screen size approx 8 foot by 6 foot via a denon avr. The seating area is approx ten foot back from the screen.

I am looking for discrete speakers(minimal to please the misses). My thought at the moment are;

center speaker- 255c rt
front left and right 65 rt
side speakers in ceiling above seating area- 2x 90rt or 2x 60rt
rear speakers in corners at top rear of room- 2x owm5

not picked a sub or subs yet as my head hurts with trying to pick the speakers.

if any of this sounds daft please let me know.

many thanks

signed

confused and headhurt

naturallight

Well first wellcome to club Polk.

Now if your really "Building " this room, and going to spend a good deal of money on this. I don't really understand your speaker selection. The 65RT was never really built to be a front set of speakers in that size room. Now i suppose anything can work, depending on how loud you want to play this stuff. But I don't see this working to well.

Now i'm just a 2 channel guy, but even to me..if you try and crank this up...your just going to blow up speakers.
I will leave this to the HT guys. But I think you have the wrong speakers to do what you want.
To me you'd need a set of 9's and 300watt amp just to run the fronts...but thats just me.

B Run

What's your max speaker budget, and which Denon are you currently running?

deronb1

Seems like an awfully big screen from such a short viewing distance. There are web articles that advise on proper screen size to seating distance. 10ft. (120 in) diag screen from 10 ft away?

A good rule of thumb is 1.5 times the screen size at a minimum. That would put you 15ft away.

zane77

You can see by my signature what I am running for a 15' x 24' room. You could do this as a 5.1 eliminationg the wides and the rears or go 7.1 and eliminat the wides only. The RTi series sounds fantastic gor home theater IMO. Good luck

blairfrischx

Forget having in-wall speakers as fronts. They won't give you anywhere near the performance you want. Even if you aren't trying to stretch the budget, you could get some Monitor 60s or 70s for around the same price, with a CS2 Center.

If you aren't worried about going up a little in budget, you could go to the TSi line or the RTi-A line. In-walls for rears and sides could be fine, but the front soundstage will need to be powerful enough to fill a room that big, and the speakers you chose just won't cut it.

johnmc

ouch............it seems the only thing i got right is asking for help............thats good though you only learn by realizing you know little.The selection of speakers was made from the descriptions online but obviously this needs revising.

i would love to have a great sound but need to compromise on appearance, either hidden or white and discrete????

Dont really have a budget, if i can not afford them right now i will save up so i can and buy as and when.

not bought anything yet and am glad.

will read all the comments carefully but needless to say thank you so much for all your advise it is very much appreciated guys.

F1nut

Polk's TOTL in-walls, the LS seires are excellent and will outperform most of their floorstanding models. I know, I've heard them and I'm not easily impressed.