Home cinema room build - pro with some am

[CharlesElliott]

I didn't go for those attachments either, at £100 odd for a small table. In fact, I've been trying to search Aliexpress for someone that makes those attachments but I don't think I can find the right words to search for as there a quite a few sofas that feature that aluminium puck with a hole.

Surprised your seats didn't come with the attachment itself though, that was never an option for us - it was only optional whether we bought the table / wine glass holder / gadget stand - which we didn't.

[CharlesElliott]

Oh, and apparently the blind motor is due first half of next week, and the fabric around will be finished next Saturday!

[CharlesElliott]

OldSkoolRS said:

Perfect timing for the typical wet July weather (since Wimbledon is starting soon!). You can lock yourself away from it all and enjoy the new room.

Have you chosen your first film/concert/series/event to watch on the finished set up yet?

We did watch some of Elton John at Glastonbury on it, and it was great.

We have informally agreed that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will be our first family film viewing, but haven't actually arranged it yet.

I have been watching the first 10 mins or so of Spectre to test the sound calibration as I think that is a great workout for a home cinema.

[CharlesElliott]

justin220 said:

Do those seats come as 3 connected, or 1 whole sofa? Mine are all connected and can be rotated round so the leather wear is even. Although I've owned mine around 3 years now and they still look great.

They are all separate seats, although the two on the ends are effectively fixed position as they have different connectors. The two in the middle could be swapped round.

[CharlesElliott]

Thanks for the reminder. We've been fiddling a lot and it never quite seems finished, but it has been calibrated now and is working very well! It's hard to really have photos of the finished effect given it is dark, and there is no sense of scale but here goes.

Finished seating



Lighting and covered panel for rack and AC unit (flash shows up the vacuuming / dusting that is still needed. Black everything takes a lot of work!)



Door into / out of room.



Going into cinema mode (it's a bit dark for this)

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AjT-H7YC5S5wg-9JhZuXsBG1Ifoe2A...

Gives a sense of the screen

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AjT-H7YC5S5wg-9HGrPe4S0_Lpq5Nw...

And switching off

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AjT-H7YC5S5wg-9ITYMuG5H4kr2Ebg...

[CharlesElliott]

It is great, yes. The calibration guy was an independent that does stuff all over the UK (although it was part of the installation cost we paid). He said that 'even though we only had one sub', he thought the construction of the room and the sound achievable was excellent and was very pleased.

Interestingly, he said that 99% of projectors are better in 4K, non-HDR, rather than HDR. He calibrated both, but we looked at a couple back to back and I agreed that the non-HDR actually showed more dynamic range.

[CharlesElliott]

Thank you all, we are very pleased with it.

We use Apple TV as our source and it works very well.

[CharlesElliott]

Not great as ‘soundproofing’ (especially to the room beneath) but it wasn’t actually designed as soundproofing, rather as sound treatment. It shares quite a lot in common with the soundproofing systems but they generally enforce a complete disconnection between the room spaces to stop any transfer through hard surfaces.

[CharlesElliott]

Sheets Tabuer said:

How's the soundproofing?

Have my dad living with me in a relatively new build, my bedroom is next to the family bathroom and my dads love of a guiness and curry leaves little to the imagination at 6am.

Having said that, it would more than cope with this situation,
I’m sure!