Home Theater For Beginners

nikolas812

I didn't exactly know the best place to post this thread. If I am in the wrong place please point me in the right direction. But any way we are about to build a house. It will have a 1500sq ft unfinished basement. At least untill I finish it. The question is when I finish it I plan on dedicating a room for my home theater and I was interested in what would be the best size. The gear I will be putting in it will consists of 4 rt800's a cs400 center and a 200x5wpc emotiva amp. And maybe one or two svs subs further down the road. I want to make it as large as possible but still small enough to hit reference levels with no subs. Does anybody have any ideas or done a similar project like this?

McLoki

How many people and how far away do you plan to sit from what size screen?

engtaz

Are you going with projector or rear projection tv? Sub's a must for HT. Need more details: room size and dimensions, seating positions in room, and why not 6.1 or 7.1?

engtaz

nikolas812

8 people max. I haven't decided on screen size yet. I don't know how large I will be able to go. Mayby some where in the 75'' to 110" range. I will probally go with the largest size my basement will allow. I don't imagine the walls will be very tall down there.

Edit: I will be using a projector.

nikolas812

My main question was what size room should I build, 12x12 20x18 exc..... Sorry if that did not come across in the first question.:o

McLoki

Definately not square. 17 x 25 sounds nice - do a google search on home theater room size.

engtaz

Never even if you can help it.

engtaz

McLoki

Google search yeilded this (among other articles.)

Choose the Correct Room Shape
If possible, avoid square rooms and long narrow rectangular rooms because deep bass sound waves misbehave or "pile up" in square or extra-long rooms. They produce "standing waves," which result in areas with bass peaks where you'll hear way too much bass, and "nulls," where you'll hear virtually no deep bass. Sometimes these areas of too much or too little bass will vary every one or two feet.

Trying to fix the standing-wave problem after the fact using electronic band-aids like Equalization or an AV receiver's auto-EQ program is virtually impossible.

Instead, select a rectangular shaped room where the dimensions (length, width and height) are not evenly divisible by a common denominator. For example, don't choose a room 24 x 16 x 8 ft.; instead lay out dimensions of 23 x 13 x 7 feet. That way, you'll minimize standing waves.

Keep the Room Size to Practical Limits
How many viewers do you expect to have? Figure out how many seats and what sort of seating you'll need-- several rows of real theater-type seats or a couple of couches plus some recliners? Then choose a room that accommodates the furniture and provides a reasonable viewing distance versus your preferred screen size. Note that the larger you make your home theater, the larger the speakers and more subwoofers you'll require, as well as having to spend more for bigger amplifiers.

It is what I was trying to say. (well - thinking of anyway)

Here is the search you want to perform.

nikolas812

I found that same site. I been reading everything I can ever since. Thanks everybody.