Garrett Home theater

[AVSMike]

When I installed my Unistrut rail system for mounting my projector and A-lens, I ran the pieces long on the ceiling with the intention of adding sound panels for the reflection point on the ceiling. I came up with a way to secure the ceiling panels to the nistrut that is simple and cheap to do. I cut small wooden blocks that can slide into the unistrut and painted them black. I will screw the sound panels to the wood blocks. Cheap, simple solution. I have made the blocks and painted them. Hopefully I find time to install this weekend.

[AVSMike]

Pictures of the two panels I finally added on the ceiling. The panel has 2" of mineral wool and 3" gap between mineral wool and the ceiling. Panels are 3" deep and 25.5" x 49.5".

[AVSCraig]

Nice Mike ! I bet it sounds awesome in there.

[AVSMike]

Added a couple amps to my system. Replacing some old amps. Added another Crown Drivecore XLS1002. Have a total of 8 of them. Five of these power my front three 3-way DIY active LCR's. The other 3 are powering surrounds and atmos speakers. I replaced another amp with a Behringer NX6000D. The NX6000D is now powering my 8.0CF sealed 18" RE XXX. I also added an AC Infinity Aircom T8. The Aircom T8 is a nifty little device that offers Programed or smart cooling for AV equipment. New product line we started carrying.
https://www.acinfinity.com/

[AVSCraig]

Added a couple amps to my system. Replacing some old amps. Added another Crown Drivecore XLS1002. Have a total of 8 of them. Five of these power my front three 3-way DIY active LCR's. The other 3 are powering surrounds and atmos speakers. I replaced another amp with a Behringer NX6000D. The NX6000D is now powering my 8.0CF sealed 18" RE XXX. I also added an AC Infinity Aircom T8. The Aircom T8 is a nifty little device that offers Programed or smart cooling for AV equipment. New product line we started carrying.
https://www.acinfinity.com/

The Aircom T8 looks like a great cooling solution. Pretty quiet ?

[AVSCraig]

How much weight can you put on that T8 unit ? Is it plastic or metal ?

[AVSMike]

How much weight can you put on that T8 unit ? Is it plastic or metal ?

It is metal. You can equipment on top of it, but only 30 pounds. Nice looking unit. What I like about it is the rack space it saves me and the clean look. I used to keep four rack spaces above my prepro, for good cooling. Now I only use one rack space.

[golden04]

I bought one also a few months ago for my denon reciever that gets hot . i love the auto feature where can set it to come on at certain temp and it fits perfectly on top of it looks very clean like it goes with it.

[AVSMike]

Technically this post is not about my dedicated room, but I am slowly updating my family room setup to 4K and decided to also add atmos speakers. Family room has a 7.2 sound system using an Onkyo RZ1100 AVR and RBH SI-760 and RBH 661-SE speakers. Today I ordered four RBH SI-615 speakers for atmos.
https://rbhsound.com/si615.php

[golden04]

Very nice! let me know how you like those atmos speakers once you have them up and running. I have been looking at those, the rsl ceiling speakers, and the beale street audio ceiling speakers. What are you using for a display in living room?

[AVSMike]

I have a small 55" 4K TV and a 127" diagonal electric Stewart FireHawk screen. Currently the projector is a JVC RS57, but will move my RS640 into this room, when I get the RS3000. The speakers are arriving tomorrow, but probably will not get to start on this project until the following weekend.

[AVSMike]

Finished the install of the atmos speakers in the family room setup. The Onkyo RZ1100 has 9 channels built in, so needed to add two channels for the 7.1.4 system. I have had an old Kenwood KM-X1 amp sitting around unused for many years. Finally put it to work. Using two channels for the rear surrounds. 130 watts per channel with two channels driven at 8 ohm, so plenty of power for rear surrounds.

[golden04]

Finished the install of the atmos speakers in the family room setup. The Onkyo RZ1100 has 9 channels built in, so needed to add two channels for the 7.1.4 system. I have had an old Kenwood KM-X1 amp sitting around unused for many years. Finally put it to work. Using two channels for the rear surrounds. 130 watts per channel with two channels driven at 8 ohm, so plenty of power for rear surrounds.

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So whats the verdict? how does it sound with the atmos setup now?

[AVSMike]

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So whats the verdict? how does it sound with the atmos setup now?

Sounds good. Really expands the sound field. I really liked atmos in my dedicated room, so I knew that I would like it in my media room.

[golden04]

Mike, how tall is the ceiling in that room ?and is it same height ceiling as in your dedicated theater room? I was just wondering if it made big difference on how tall the ceiling was and effect of atmos speakers whether the taller ceiling was better/worse or same for expanding the sound field and the atmos effects how they compare.
I like those windows in your familyroom, you must have a pretty bright room during the daytime .