Welcome to The Farm House Cinema Third time's a charm.  This is the remake of my second room which was a remake of my first room for our second new house in North Carolina.  This time, I've gone with more of a traditional to match our new house which is a farm house style.   If you'd like to see a pictorial description of the construction of the theater, check out the Construction Thread over on AVS Forums.   I'd like to thank everyone out at AVS Forums but especially Bryan Pape for his acoustic help, and my wife, Sharon for moral support. The columns are typical of these rooms now.  They are both decorative and functional.  The rear columns hide the side and rear surrounds (Axiom QS8 quadpoles).  I treated the bottoms and tops of mine with hand made wood v-groove and finished them in a chestnut stain with satin finish. The walls are a combination of acoustic materials (cotton and rigid fiberglass) of varying thickness covered by an acoustically transparent fabric from Guilford of Maine. The carpet is a commercial grade Berber from Beaulieu. In the rear there is a bar area with built-in mini-fridge.  All the necessities of home... The lighting is a combination of 4” downlights, wall sconces from Lowes and a blue rope light which is concealed in a tray built in the soffit and reflects off of a 45 degree angled portion of the ceiling providing a warm  "glow" during movie viewing. The whole system is controlled by a Lutron Grafik Eye 3106 and is operated from the remote control with appropriate light settings enacted when play, pause and stop are engaged on the movie. The Projector is a Sony “Ruby” (VPL-VW100) firing onto an 92" (visible) wide 2.35:1 (full cinemascope) screen custom made from an acoustically transparent material by SMX.  Total cost of the screen -- around $150.  Additionally, there is a Panamorph UH380 anamorphic lens on a swing mount in front of the Ruby. This, in combination with some digital trickery, allows me to project 2.35:1 movies in their full-fledged glory. The forward wall is a stage with a stepped radius front and three layers of walls -- a proscenium wall which hides various acoustic treatments including two acoustical cotton bass traps and a sealed membrane bass trap, a screen wall which is just framing covered with a black, acoustically transparent fabric and contains the screen all three front speakers hidden behind it and, finally, the actual back wall of the room.  All front wall surfaces and the cavities created by the multiple walls are treated with acoustic cotton and/or rigid fiberglass to provide absorption and “tame” the room.  I have to hand it to Bryan here -- the acoustics in the room are amazing.  Much better even than my previous two rooms. I Started out with a SVS PB12+/2 in the room and was pretty happy. But then I started reading about IB subs and decided to try that out. As it turned out, the IB just leaked way too much energy to the rest of the house so I had to backtrack and go another route. I’ve settled on a large, sealed box custom built in the area below my screen. With the front panel removed you can see the monster here: Four 18” FiCarAudio Q18 woofers powered by a bridged EP2500 definitely move some air – as well as anything else in the room. I can pretty much make anyone crap their pants with this setup and the right demo. The seating is the Cinema Series 088 from Berkline.  Four up front in an arched configuration and four in the back setup as two loveseats.  All seats have the electric recline option and are covered with a micro-fiber cloth that resembles suede and fits in with the rest of the decor. These puppies are uuber-comfy and make for a great Home Theatre feel.  I'm very glad I was able to make room for 8 seats in this room as that will be much more usable when company is over. And now for the "Tim Allen Tool-time" portion of our presentation (ooh, ooh, ooh)... The equipment rack (a Middle Atlantic slim 5) is around the corner to your left as you enter the theater.  Housed within it are the following (from top): Furman power sequencer and conditioner – used to switch on and off the remote amps. AudioControl Ten Series III EQ (rear surrounds) Key Digital 4x1 HDMI Switcher – used for aspect control for anamorphic lens AudioControl THX Bijou EQ (other five channels) Behrenger DEQ2496 – used to EQ the custom Sub Behrenger Feedback Detroyer Pro – currently unused (replaced by DEQ) External DVD drive and Touchscreen PC monitor – The touchscreen is running my modified version of DVDLobby from Cinemar. The external DVD drive is for playing rental or other movies not ripped to hard drive through the HTPC. Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD Player (man is this awesome) Pioneer Elite VSX-84TXSi Receiver used as pre-pro only Monitor for the HTPC/MainLobby machine. Lexicon NT 512 5 channel amp (surround channels) Remote located (due to fan noise) are my three main power amps – two QSC RMX 1450s and a Behrenger A2500. The QSCs power the front soundstage and the Behrenger the IB sub. Behind the scenes there is also an HDTivo Sony PS2, a Sonos digital music system and a balanced power module through which all components run. On a little custom table attached to the arm of my main seat is my newest toy – a TabletKiosk i7209 which acts as a visual controller for the currently playing movie and can also select movies with its own DVDLobby interface. Room Facts Width - 14' 8” (with wall treatments) Length - 19' (17' to screen wall) Height – 10’ (at center in front) Riser height - 12" Soffit build down - 12" Screen - 8’ wide 2.35:1 CIH Distance eyeballs to screen:    Front – 8’    Back - 13 And we close with the entry which sports the faux Ticket Booth with custom designed poster.  It is functional as well as it opens to reveal a storage compartment above for DVD cases and such and below for snacks and other various items. Thanks for visiting and, if you've made it all the way to the end of this site and you're ever in the Charlotte area, look me up and we can watch a movie.