cinema room given the green light!

[lawtoni]

Hi All,

I know this may be a common question, yet despite looking for ages in the search function, I can't find the answers I'm looking for all.

I am about to move into a new house and I have the green light from the Mrs for a cinema room!

This will be used for movies and PS3 games.
The room is 10'6 x 9'10

my budget is 2.5k ish

So I guess I need:
TV
amp
surround sound speakers

So do I need anything else? I already have the PS3.
Please could you recommend me a system.

I'd be incredibaly grateful and will make sure I give a full write up upon completion to assist others in a similar position.

Many thanks in advance guys and girls

Cheers

Paul

[Zaxxon]

Sound proofing?

Unless your cinema room is located in the East wing and your Mrs sleeps in the West wing, you may need to block out the sound of your sound system at 2am.

[CraigVmax]

im a bit out of touch as me and plotty did my setup a couple of years ago but for your budget, something like this...

http://www.richersounds.com/product/plasma-tv/pana...

with this:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/av-receivers/y...


with these:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/speaker-packag...

That should result in a good sounding clean system. You can use the ps3 for blueray and dvd.

I've used Richer sounds for speed but I'd actually reccomend sound and vision in Bolton, I always get my kit from there and Derestrictor on here is the owner and a very knowledgable and great guy to deal with.

Everyone has a different opinion and some may suggest much bigger speakers but for your room size I'd say this would work well.

[CraigVmax]

in fact...

http://www.soundandvision.co.uk/tv/plasma/panasoni...

http://www.soundandvision.co.uk/hifi/amplifiers/ho...

and

http://www.soundandvision.co.uk/hifi/speakers/av-s...

even better!

[rex]

Try AV forums for second hand stuff. Bought loads off there and usually very well looked after gear.

[Council Baby]

The kef 3005se are a good speaker, if you look out for them they occasionally come up for around the £600 mark on clearance. I recently chopped mine in for the T305.

I'd also look at the last seasons amps on clearance to help your budget stretch, when the new models come out you can often find them 1/2 price and let's face it, unless you have to have the latest thing the last models usually offer 95%+ of the new models at this level.

Spend the money you save and the tv budget on a reasonable projector

Not saying the above is bad advice but £2,500 isn't a huge budget for a cinema room, may as well make it stretch!

[Trustmeimadoctor]

not going to get a great screen with a projector in a room that small your needing a short throw one so your limiting what you can buy also then there is the noise and the heat

[Driller]

Zaxxon said:

Sound proofing?

Unless your cinema room is located in the East wing and your Mrs sleeps in the West wing, you may need to block out the sound of your sound system at 2am.

After sound proofing a room that size, he's going to be left with something about the size of a Tupperware box.

[Council Baby]

Ah - I missed the room size - scrap the PJ, or knock a wall through

[CraigVmax]

I have this tv, if set up properly the quality is astonishing and for movies its absolutely superb, very wiiiiide

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ctg/Philips-Cinema-21-9-56PF...

[lawtoni]

sound proofing is not essential guys, the mrs will be 4 rooms away and is forgiving!

[BoRED S2upid]

Projector.

[CraigVmax]

size of room would make it tricky, no?

[marctwo]

CraigVmax said:

I have this tv, if set up properly the quality is astonishing and for movies its absolutely superb, very wiiiiide

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ctg/Philips-Cinema-21-9-56PF...

What settings do you have for yours?

[NewNameNeeded]

CraigVmax said:

http://www.richersounds.com/product/plasma-tv/pana...
with this:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/av-receivers/y...
with these:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/speaker-packag...

I went for a similar combo to this about 18 months ago - 42" Pana plasma (G20), Yamaha amp (V765) and the KEF 2005.3 system - it's absolutely great. Would strongly recommend all three brands.

My only regret was ignoring the little whisper telling me to get the 50" plasma. Don't scrimp there, no matter how big it may look.

[CraigVmax]

marctwo said:

What settings do you have for yours?

Hi Marc, tbh Im not sure of the top of my head, plotloss spent a long time researching and getting them as he/I wanted.

If you have one and need to know I'll go through them and film it and send you the clip.

Did make a big difference to the out of the box picture.

[BoRED S2upid]

10ft is fine for a projector I use one in mine and don't have it much further back than that.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

you wont get a large screen without a short throw unit also heat and noise is a major issue with them as at 10ft you will be sat underneath it

[BoRED S2upid]

Now I come to think of it 10ft is small better to stick with a wall mounted TV.

[marctwo]

CraigVmax said:

Hi Marc, tbh Im not sure of the top of my head, plotloss spent a long time researching and getting them as he/I wanted.

If you have one and need to know I'll go through them and film it and send you the clip.

Did make a big difference to the out of the box picture.

Thanks. The out of box settings were terrible and I've changed them quite a bit. SD picture still not amazing though.