Home Theater
Today was the grand opening of my home theater. We watched my second favorite movie, Gladiator, and it was a good pick for grand opening. Maybe just because it’s my second favorite movie but I also think the soundtrack was a great showcase the technical aspects of my speakers. You have the opening battle with a great soundtrack. The orchestra challenges the speakers ability to reproduce clear crisp natural sounds. There’s plenty of places for the bass to shine with bone crushing blows and the war drums. All in all, I’m happy with it. Last think I would like to do is replace the hanging blinds with thick drapes to block out more light.
Here are some pictures from my theater construction. You can check out my facebook album for all the pictures.
First some shots of what the room used to look like.
Check out that ugly wallpaper. The blue carpet was nasty and the linoleum flooring uninviting.
The back of their room, the front of ours. More floral trim wallpaper. What’s up with all the antiquated flowers?
More flower trim, more flower wallpaper. About the only thing I liked about the room was the size, the drop ceiling (you’ll see why later), and that bar in the back corner. It’s a great place to store drinks and food, and an ice cream birthday cake 
Gunny helping me remove that ugly wallpaper. Good riddance!
Back of the room with no flowers and repainted. We left the furnace. Now I’m thinking we should rip it out and put in a new nice looking gas fireplace.
After we stripped the wall, we painted the walls a light peach to go with new light coffee colored carpeting.
Bar area repainted. We also ripped down all that flower trim. No more flowers!
Front of the room repainted.
Audio pier housing my Onkyo TX-SR606, upconvert dvd player, and my RSW-10d Klipsch subwoofer.
I wall mounted my rear surround speakers, Klipsch RS-42′s. I ran the audio cables through the ceiling which was made possible by the drop ceiling.
Front right corner. Pier completed with a Wii standing nice and pretty next to my Klipsch RF-82′s which are just about the same height.
The front setup minus a screen and a center channel.
Ceiling mounted my projector. I ran my power, vga, and hdmi cables through the ceiling. Thanks to DeepSurplus.com and Monoprice.com for offering good cabling at cheap prices. You’d be insane to purchase 40+ feet of Monster HDMI Cabling. Best Buy offers it for $250 for 35′ when I got 48′ for $62 at DeepSurplus.com
The front of my completed home theater. The screen is wall mounted with my Klipsch RC-62 completing an all Klipsch audio setup.
View of the rear of the theater from the front. The ceiling mounted projector keeps it out of the way of people and people more out of the way of the projection (unlike my apartment). The two rear surround speakers hang nicely from the wall create a nice surround experience. I plan on building a riser to elevate one couch to create some stadium seating action.
Taft took some pictures of my theater in action so if they come out well.
Here’s a list of my theater components if anyone’s interested.
- Optoma HD70 – 720p HD projector
- Panoview 92″ Screen
- Onkyo TX-SR606 Black AV Receiver
- Toshiba SD-K860 Upconvert DVD Player
- Nintendo Wii
- Klipsch RF-82 Front speakers
- Klipsch RC-62 Center speaker
- Klipsch RSW-10d subwoofer
- Klipsch RS-42 Surround speakers
- Sauder Miranda Audio Pier