New Garrett Theater

[David Vaughn]

Here is what the brackets for the wides and rear surrounds will look like. I placed the wall mount on top of a speaker that was sitting on a pedestal and then flipped the picture upside down. I will have two horizontal runs of 3/4 unistrut, so that position is adjustable.

New Garrett Theater

I got dizzy looking at this picture!

[bmoney]

The upside down couch didn't make you wonder what Mike's up to?

Hahah. Eyes went right for the speaker. 

[AVSMike]

Just ordered the amp for the four 18" subs that will be in the baffle wall. A CVR DSP-1504. I decided to get this ordered, in case tariffs are added.

[bmoney]

Just ordered the amp for the four 18" subs that will be in the baffle wall. A CVR DSP-1504. I decided to get this ordered, in case tariffs are added.

Does that amp have built in EQ?

[AVSMike]

Does that amp have built in EQ?

Yes it does. 

[bmoney]

Awesome. 

[AVSMike]

Ordered five 4.0CF sealed flat pack subwoofer boxes. Will reuse two existing 4.0CF sealed boxes. Three will be for the lower 18" woofer (TD18H+) for my LCR's in the baffle wall and four of these boxes will be for the UMII 18-22 subs going in the baffle wall. Two of the boxes arrived last Thursday and I have put those together. Waiting on the other three. 

I also ordered two 4 ohm LaVoce SAF184.03 Drivers to actively pair with the side surrounds (RBH 831-SW/R) speakers. Purchased another DBX PA2 for crossover duty for the side surrounds. These boxes need to be built custom. So will build the box for these, at some point.

Last I ordered a Buckeye Hypex NC502MP six channel amp. 500 watts per channel amp. This amp will be used to power my front three speakers RBH SI-831 R/9 speakers actively paired with the TD18H+ drivers. The wides, side surrounds and the rear speakers will be powered by an existing Buckeye Hypex NC252MP six channel amp.   

[Paul Heroy]

Very cool, Mike. Those Buckeye amps don't look great but who cares - they are state of the art Class D sound from all accounts. I was considering them vs VTV amps a few months ago. This was due to a failed 8 channel Marantz powering my surround & height channels. Decided to instead go with a Starke Sound Fiera 8 which frequently goes on sale for $999, and is plenty good enough for what I'm running in those channels.

I saw an article somewhere recently about testing done with bass and uncorrelated vs correlated - basically stereo / multi-channel vs mono, which showed that a sub for each channel truly does yield big benefits that can easily be heard by untrained listeners. Your room sounds gloriously uncorrelated!

[AVSMike]

Very cool, Mike. Those Buckeye amps don't look great but who cares - they are state of the art Class D sound from all accounts. I was considering them vs VTV amps a few months ago. This was due to a failed 8 channel Marantz powering my surround & height channels. Decided to instead go with a Starke Sound Fiera 8 which frequently goes on sale for $999, and is plenty good enough for what I'm running in those channels.

I saw an article somewhere recently about testing done with bass and uncorrelated vs correlated - basically stereo / multi-channel vs mono, which showed that a sub for each channel truly does yield big benefits that can easily be heard by untrained listeners. Your room sounds gloriously uncorrelated!

Eventually I want to actively add 18's to my wides and rear speakers. Looking at pro woofers, because I want to cross them over at 200hz to 300hz. Then all nine lower level speakers will have the ability to be run full range.

[AVSMike]

Received my Buckeye Hypex NC502MP 6-channel amp today. Will install this weekend.
https://www.buckeyeamp.com/shop/amplifiers/hypex/nc502mp/6_channel

[AVSMike]

Equipment list added to first post.

Planned equipment list
JVC RS4200 (repurpose from exiting room or whatever I own at the time)
Lumagen 4242 (repurpose from existing room)
ISCO 1.25X DLP Cinema Lens (purchased)
Seymour Screen Excellence Trim L120 (purchased)
LCR RBH SI-839/R9 (purchased)
Three TD18H+ woofers actively paired with LCR to make them 3-way full range (repurpose from exiting room)
Two DBX PA2 for active crossovers for LCR (repurpose from exiting room)
Buckeye Hypex NC502MP 6-channel amp for active LCR's (purchased)
Wides RBH 821-SF/R (purchased)
Side surrounds RBH 821-SW/R (purchased)
Two LaVoce SAF184.03 actively paired with side surrounds to make them 3-way full range (purchased)
One DBX PA2 for active crossovers for side surrounds (purchased)
Rear surrounds RBH 831-SW/R (purchased)
Atmos Six Volt 10 sealed (two purchased to go with four repurpose from exiting room)
Dual 24" sealed sub ((repurpose from exiting room)
CVR 3302 amp for dual 24" sub (repurpose from exiting room)
Four UMII 18-22 subs for baffle wall (purchased)
Four DIY Sound Group 4.0CF sealed boxes (purchased)
CVR 1504 amp for UMII 18-22 subs (purchased)
Prepro Marantz AV10 (purchased)

[AVSMike]

Decided to not reuse my RBH 66-SF speakers for rear surrounds. Ordered and received today a pair of RBH 821-SW/R speakers. Will use them for side surrounds actively paired with LaVoce SAF184.03 18" drivers to give the side surrounds full range (20hz to 20k hz) performance. Will move the RBH 831-SW/R speakers to rear surrounds. I also ordered a Marantz AV10 today.

Have purchased all of the speakers and subs for my new room. Have the prepro and amps purchased. Only piece of equipment left to purchase is the Screen Excellence L-120 power masking screen. 

[AVSMike]

Ordered my new screen yesterday. A Seymour Screen Excellence L-120 with Neo fabric. Ordered 2.37 aspect ratio, when masks are fully open. Using IR control, so that I can use my universal remote to control the masking. I am not interested in auto masking, because I do not want the masking to be opening and closing on aspect ratio movies. I know you can lock it in position, but if I am not there to do that, then whoever is using my system will have a problem. Much simpler to just press the aspect ratio button on the remote. This is how I have my current screen an L-110 set up now. Been very happy with this setup. Bought that screen in 2020.
https://www.seymourscreenexcellence.com/trim.php

I have now purchased all the equipment for the new room.

[SRW1000]

I absolutely love having a remote-controlled masking system.  It's RF instead of IR, so I can't control it with my URC remote, but it's one of those things you only have to adjust once per movie, so that's not a great deal.

In my old system, it was a manual process and nowhere near as convenient.

As good as the blacks are with JVC projectors, masking is still a noticeable improvement.

[AVSJason]

I absolutely love having a remote-controlled masking system.  It's RF instead of IR, so I can't control it with my URC remote, but it's one of those things you only have to adjust once per movie, so that's not a great deal.

In my old system, it was a manual process and nowhere near as convenient.

As good as the blacks are with JVC projectors, masking is still a noticeable improvement.

Have you ever looked into the Bond Hub? I used one of these for a customer with a Control4 system, it converts IR/RF to a wifi signal that I was able to get a driver for and integrate his fireplace and blinds into the C4 interface.