Ha Wolski: If you are going to spend that kind of money then have the system designed by a professional. Supply input as to what equipment you want to use. Don't just accept something the designer wants to sell you. (possibly because it is something he sells and can make a good profit on) As for the TV, how big the screen is depends on the size of the room and how far from the screen the seats will be. When considering screen size, remember you are talking about television and not a projected motion picture. A TV picture is made up of pixels. The larger the screen the more apparent those individual pixels become. Even at the highest standard resolution available, 1920 X1080, if you enlarge the picture enough the pixels will become apparent. There are higher resolutions but not in media readibly available to the consumer. If you are looking for some real great sounding speakers, the original Altec "Voice of the Theater" speakers are without equal. No separate lo! w frequency driver is needed. As far as sound equipment McIntosh is the best for sound and quality. They have a great audio/video control center and power amps. Also JBL speakers are some of the best. (James B. Lansing of Altec Lansing speaker fame) Note that if you buy some efficient speakers you will not need huge megawatt amplifiers. Some of those Altec VOT speakers ran to earth shattering volumes with only 50 watt amps. As far as how popular or practical 3D will be... the jury is still out on that. I suggest you go to a dealer and check out the 3D sets for yourself. Such a matter is very subjective....Show more
Ervin Overbee: First congratulations on your new home. I hope your home theater project is a fun one. I would agree that you should consult a professional, you should investigate your local independent hi-end audio video stores as they carry the better brands of equipment and the salesmen generally have years of experience to help you design the! right system for your needs. Your dealer will play a vital r! ole in not only designing and installing the system but with any service and issues you may have in the future.There are numerous things to consider when designing a home music or home theater system, and since your home is being built this would be a good time to consider some of the things that may be needed and will save you time and money. Most builders will not allow you to come in during construction and add any additional wiring needed but you may be able to talk to him in adding conduits that will allow you later to pull wires to the locations you will need them. You might also get him to add any additional electrical or venting you may need. If you will have attic access later on then it will not be a concern but if not then you should strongly think about getting any options added before walls are closed.First thing you will want to figure out is the layout of the room, screen, projector and seating. Next most high end 'home theater" systems have equipment roo! ms were all the equipment is located, which will need again proper amounts of power, and ventilation. You will need cable or satelite and internet pulled to this location. You then will need speaker wire (or better yet) conduit so you can pull any type of speaker cable you want, or change it when desired. You will also want a conduit to in the rough location of the projector and electrical there as well. Lighting should also be considered.Suggestion on electrical power to all locations; When pulling dedicated lines make sure the electrician pulls all dedicated line from one side or your electrical panel as this assures they are in phase. This will minimize any ground loop issues. All electrical panels coming into you home come in with 220volts. They then split the 220volts to 110volts to each side of the panel. Each side is 180 degrees out of phase to the other, and when sharing a common ground any equipment on electrical outlets that are out of phase with one anot! her and sharing a common ground you will get ground loop issues, or noi! ses. This goes for the projector as well. When pulling conduit have him use the Plastic flexable conduit with no or very slight bends to you can be assured not to have difficulty pulling any cables, and the larger the diameter the better so you do not have issues.As far as equipment; which is the fun part lol. Your certainly going to get many different opinions on what is good and what isn't, even trade magazines will give you conflicting recommendations. If your doing any research on your own, (which Im sure you will) read the better trade magazines like Perfect Vision, or Absolute Sound, Wide Screen Review, Stereophile, these are highly respected magazines as they review the better equipment and the reviewers are very knowledgeable with many years of experience. Unfortunately there is a tremendous amount of poor information out there and its really up to you do decipher who is giving you the best advice. Certainly you independent dealer should be your ultimate guide! if they have the knowledge and experience. I have written many articles on hi end home audio and video systems and I have started to post some of them in my forum that your welcome to read, and hopefully they will give you some insight to what is important in a system. Your more then welcome to email me with any questions as I have extensive experience in designing and building some of the very finest in hi-end home audio and video systems. I started writing you some recommendations on products and ideas but ran out of room as they dont give you much space lol. So feel free to email me and will be happy to give you more information.Kevin40 years hi-end audio video specialist...Show more
Theresia Fashaw: I personally see 3-D as a fad that will go away unless they invent a new holographic technology that doers not require glasses. That's just me though, I could be wrong.I would suggest a 2.4:1 aspect screen since that's what most of the bigger movies are. I would a! lso suggest using an anamorphic lens http://www.prismasonic.com/englis! h/index.shtml You will also need video scaling to go with this. This is something that is built into the upper end Anthem Preamp/Processors like the AVM 50v and D2v. http://www.anthemav.com/products/anthem/a-v-proces... With this you can set up a "CIH" (Constant Image Height) system meaning never any black bars top and bottom. (Unless you watch a movie with an aspect higher than 2.4:1) You will want to make use of the calculator on Projector Central.com http://www.projectorcentral.com/projection-calcula... You can use it to determine things like screen gain requirements based on projector brightness and ambient light conditions. You will need to decide if you want a perforated screen so you can put the speakers behind it. I chose not to do this because I feel it degrades both picture quality and sound quality. I put my main speakers off the ends of the screen behind curtains made of Football Jersey material. This Material looks very plush and nice from the seat! ing area and yet is very thin and acoustically transparent so it hardly effects the sound at all.You can save money by building the screen. Bulk material can be found here. http://store.cousinsvideo.com/cut-to-size.html I used a 1.3 gain material but your requirements might be different. Here is my DIY screen... http://www.mfk-projects.com/theatre_screen.htmYou can save money on amplification by using Emotiva amplifiers. Great quality, low price!Speakers are a little harder. You're likely stuck with commercially available products and not many are very good. Even ultra expensive ones typically are not very good. They may boast exotic cone/dome materials that really doesn't mean much but completely lack any acoustic engineering competence. The one thing that can help especially for home theatre applications is having a lot of surface area. This improves acoustic coupling making effects like explosions snappier. Also more area moving less means less distortion. I! n other words, use a lot of cones/domes. Line arrays are a good way to! do this.. If you want to do the research and have the ability to build them I would suggest you visit Don Keele's web site and look into building CBT arrays. http://www.xlrtechs.com/dbkeele.com/papers.htm Use more than one subwoofer. You should maintain stereo bass down to the lowest room mode. In my case this is about 18 Hz but you are talking a screen size that will require a room larger than mine so you may as well plan on not even using the subwoofer output of your processor. Just put a sub on each the left and right channel and put one on each side of the room. Again especially here, more and larger cones is better. Two 15" woofers each moving 6 mm peak will be better than one 15" woofer moving 12 mm peak. Even if you can't go DIY main speakers at least go DIY subs. Infinite baffle is a good way to go and use multiple large drivers in each. I use twelve 15" woofers each with 14 mm peak excursion in each of two open baffle (dipole) columns. I'm currently pl! anning an infinite baffle sub to handle from 18Hz down to single digits using thirty two 15" drivers. With DIY this is not terribly expensive, only a few thousand $$ and there are no commercial options that can match it.Use flat black (as flat as you can get it) for the ceiling. Use neutral colors on the walls. My theatre started out putrid red on the upper half the wall and barf purple on the lower half. These colors are still seen on my web site as I have not posted photos of the renovations now in progress. http://www.mfk-projects.com/home_theatre.htm The light gray ceiling was a mistake, it's now flat black. The upper half the walls is a medium neutral gray and the lower half is a very dark blue. The gray painted trim is currently being replaced with stain grade Cherry. Don't screw up the colors the way I did, get it right from the start. Due to constant business travel it might be months before my renovations are complete but the photos on the web site will ! be updated once it is.Go with electric Berkline recliners. Make sure yo! u put in power outlets in the floor for these. It's amazing how comfortable these chairs are.Don't forget to put floor lights in especially if you do a raised floor which I do recommend. Also go on the AVS Forum and get ideas there. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=...Also, just google "Home Theatre" and select "images". You can see all sorts of examples this way and get ideas.It's a fun and rewarding project, have fun!mk...Show more
Sol Bayn: I just made a website dedicated to 3dtvs if your interested in check it out.Thanks,www.absolute3dtv.com
Clifford Riggleman: http://www.overtureav.com/usedaudiovideoequipment/Firstly, I am not an expert, but I know something about what you ask. The average $1000 LCD TV has a reported 60,000 hours of service life. Projectors can range from 100,000 hours or more, it all depends on use and frequency in both cases. What you have to consider is will a projector be user friendly and idiot proof so to speak.! It has to work in unison with everything else in the room. For the sake of the discussion, lets say it makes sense to get a 50 inch LCD or LED TV because it is simple and straight forward to use for anyone who operates your equipment in the room. Alongside said, un-named tv I recommend Aprerion audio to bring into focus audio visual decisions. Below is an interactive exercise accompanied by a Gallery that answers your questions and better clarifies what makes sense. http://www.aperionaudio.com/flash/isb.aspx Given some sort of screen will be the focal point in the room, below is professional advice on screens.http://www.aperionaudio.com/AperionU/flatpanel.asp...Best....Show more
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Fritz Hawkey: You want to be careful. You can spend $20,000 on the install alone and more for the equipment.I have some suggestions:A few years! ago the magazine "Widescreen Review" had a year of articles where a co! uple spent over $150,000 on a built in theater room that performed poorly. The author (Hershelman) came in and each month illustrated what the pros had done wrong and what to do to fix the problems. While his tone was a bit arrogant, he did a good job listing light-control issues, seating position issues, wiring and AC issues, power issues, etc.It would be worth your time to order the back issues (or hit your local library) and read these articles BEFORE you make decisions or start to build.Last year at CEDIA (an organization that certifies home theater installers) they created 2 demo rooms with identical equipment and movies. They brought people into 1 room for a few minutes then had them move to the second room. The acoustics of the two identical rooms was dramatically different. Proper positioning of the seats, the subwoofers and a bit of equalization made all the difference.You might also order "Sound studio design on a budget" by F Alton Everest from Amazon. (This ! guy wrote the Master acoustics handbook - the definitive guide on room acoustics). This book is a toned-down, but practical discussion of room acoustics and has designs for 2 different home theater rooms.Good luck....Show more
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