Peer Home Theater

[bmoney]

thats very reasonable

[AVSCraig]

Re - painted the soffit over the screens with Rosco Velour Black paint last night, to better match the back walls and eliminate the Rustoleum " flat " black paint shine. Much better now !  These photo's are over exposed, or it would be hard to see anything !

[AVSCraig]

Some old photos of previous home theaters. This one had a stacked NEC HT1000 ( 4:3 aspect ratio - good for 16:9 and 4:3 movies ) and an Optoma H79 720p projector - which i used for 16:9 and 2.35:1 movies ). the soffit was ventilated. Obviously I had no concept back then that a white room was bad. I have a feeling that painting it black would have caused a divorce ( which happened eventually anyway ), but it was more of a " media room ", and it worked at the time.
The NEC HT1000 was bought in July 2003 - they were $ 4000.00, and one of the best home theater projectors at the time. The Optoma H79 was bought from ( drum roll please ) - AV Science, Feb. 21st ( two days before my birthday ! ), 2005 ! that projector was $ 6199.00 at the time !

 

[AVSCraig]

The former Sim2 Lumis Host, which was then replaced by the JVC RS600 / Sony VW600 stack -

[AVSCraig]

Recent theater improvements -
Installed a pair of SVS SB2000 subwoofers in the front of the theater. They are hidden behind curtains - but when something blows up on the screen, you know they are there !
Moved the two PC12 Plus cylinder subs in the back out of the corners, and got them as even to each other and the front subs position as practical.
Installed SVS SoundPath Subwoofer Isolation System feet on the PC12 Plus subs.
Lowered the center channel to right above the screen ( not as easy as it would sound ).
Plugged one port in the PC12 Plus cylinders for 16Hrz mode.
Moved my seating forward about 2 inches.
Set each subwoofer at the identical volume with an SPL meter.
Re - ran Audyssey ( front subs as one subwoofer, rear subs as one subwoofer ).

Those improvements really tightened the bass, and evened out the bass over my 14' wide sectional sofa. Any " boomy-ness  " is gone, and it hammers you harder and quicker. 4 subs really make a difference. The center channel sounds better now too. It made a noticeable difference. Especially when the floor boards feel like they are rolling under your feet during the shelling in Hacksaw Ridge !!

[AVSMike]

Welcome to the dark side of multiple sealed subs.

[AVSCraig]

Other improvements - I re - oriented my Panamorph Paladin DCR lens, fine tuned it's positioning,  and now the picture geometry is nearly perfect, from nearly the minimum throw distance ! The picture looks so good with scope, I'm re -watching all sorts of movies !   

[AVSCraig]

Welcome to the dark side of multiple sealed subs.

Two test runs with them - " Saving Private Ryan " on 4K, and " Hacksaw Ridge " on 4K. Multiple subs really improve LFE !

[AVSCraig]

Screen shots of The Pacific on Blu-ray, on my 16:9 Stewart Cima Neve screen -

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Some more current theater shots -

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and a few more -

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The front and rear ends of the projector -

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Movies and equipment rack -

[Tom Bley]

Nice rack!     

[AVSCraig]

Nice rack!     

You couldn't help yourself - I know !