Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Dec 27, 2010 10:35 pm Hi everyone, I have a few questions - and expect I'll have many more - so I thought I'd create a single thread about our HT room, and ask all the questions in here! When I post a new question I'll edit the subject to suit. First, some background: This is the home theatre room in our soon-to-be-constructed house: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The room is 4.1m wide, 6.5m long (6.5m includes the cupboard/screen recess at the front and the kitchette at the back). Room height is 2.7m. "AV store" part at the back is going to be the MDF for data/AV distribution to the rest of the house, as well as house the HT components. It will have tinted translucent double doors to the theatre, and also some sort of mesh or louvred door to the room behind it (garage) for ventilation. I'm planning the followings cable runs within the theatre: Blue circles - 1 in ceiling for a projector, 1 on wall behind TV at about 1.2m height. Each one will have 1x HDMI, 1x component RCA connectors both connected back to the AV cabinet (as well as 1x single power point). Green circle - sub will be located here. 1x RCA run back to AV cabinet. (will be a 2x power point on wall near here). The problem are the speakers. Red dots obviously, and orange for the additional speakers for 7.1. The ones down the left hand side (when facing the screen) will have the door, the window or the AV cabinet door in the way respectively. The easy solution I thought of is the have the speakers ceiling mounted - but with 2700m high ceilings would this be a problem? Would it be odd having the front speakers at ground level (below the cupboards on either side, below the TV/screen at the front) but the rear speakers at ceiling height? I can't really shift the window.. not easily.. Any other tips? Built 3br house in Glenorchy, Tas in 2001 * * * Built 5br courtyard house in Lenah Valley, Tas in 2011 - Homeone thread / Blog Re: Chuq's HT room - Q: ceiling speakers? 2Dec 28, 2010 10:54 am Hi Chuq. In-ceiling speakers are A-OK as surround speakers, and no issue with the 2.7m ceilings. Having the front speakers under the screen is also OK - many expensive custom Home Cinemas have it this way. It won't sound odd having the surrounds high (compared to the fronts) as they are actually supposed to be higher than the listener, as well as being more ambient than direct in the projection of their sound. Your idea of their positions needs correcting though. The primary surrounds (speakers 4 and 5 in a 5.1 setup) are the left and right surrounds. The additional speakers (6 and 7) for 7.1 are the ones in the middle at the back of the room. If you wire up 7.1 your 4 surround speakers should be positioned much more like this (see attached - I still don't know how to embed the picture into the body text the way you did ): Re: Chuq's HT room - Q: ceiling speakers? 3Dec 28, 2010 11:50 am rodd you need to host it on photbucket or imageshack then paste the relevant url to the message Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Chuq's HT room - Q: ceiling speakers? 4Dec 28, 2010 9:21 pm Thanks Rodda, I must've been mistaken by the 7.1 layout - I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_s ... r_channels and must have been thrown off by looking at the "5.1" column and not the "5.1 side" column! In any case, it shouldn't matter for pre-wiring the room, so long as I have seven connections in the cabinet I can sort out which speakers go where later :) I've done some sketchup diagrams of my proposed layout. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Please note, these are just the first speaker models I could find in sketchup - I am not planning to have speakers of this size hanging from the ceiling! The speakers I have now are (looks around and whispers) Bose Acoustimass ones - physically tiny - but I'm considering using these in the living room (where size will be an issue) and getting something else for the HT. Built 3br house in Glenorchy, Tas in 2001 * * * Built 5br courtyard house in Lenah Valley, Tas in 2011 - Homeone thread / Blog Hey, I am wanting to add a second toilet to my house, bit we have limited room. There is a hallway/entry that is never used, so was thinking this could be an option. Only… 0 4709 Hi all, My first post, we are building a house and can’t decide the layout of the lounge room. We have a large N/W facing window and are wanting to have a wood slow… 0 13724 sorry mate, not wasting more time on this. Youve completely missed the mark on some fundamentals and regardless of how many times i try and put it to you differently, you… 11 9187 |