Advice on mini cinema setup for attic room

[barchetta_boy]

Hi everyone,

We are converting our attic to a soundproofed room and I'm looking to kit it out with a decent TV and at least a sound bar, possibly a home cinema system too.

I've attached an architects drawing below showing the plan of the room (ignore the shower room bit, we have decided not to do this so it's just one open room). The blue line shows where the TV will be, under the eaves wall, with the blue box showing roughly where a sofa will be.

There will be a custom unit built into the eaves with a mounting bracket for the tv to enable it pivot out and face into the room more if required.

I think 40" is the right size for the room, and we really bought a really excellent Panasonic 4K 40" set for the main lounge which I'm really happy with, so we might just get another one of those. I need some advice on home cinema systems and soundbars.

I'm assuming there will be a big difference between a sound bar and a proper home cinema system. I need something with small speakers that also play music well. Doesnt need to be Dolby Atmos, maybe even 2.1 would do, although it would be nice to have 5.1 as that's something I've always wanted to try and never had.

Bear in mind that the horizontal lines show where the eaves are at 1m high so space is at a premium, it needs to be compact.

Any ideas gratefully received.

Joel

[barchetta_boy]

Er, right my use of the word cinema appears to have thrown people off

It’s not a cinema. Forget cinema, it’s an attic room with a big tv screen (I don’t care what anyone says I grew up in an age where a 25” Trinitron was big!) and I want advice on the best kit.

I want a good screen, which can’t be bigger than 40” and a good AV setup to go with it, bearing in mind room size and the requirement for small speakers.

Thanks for the Denon recco, that is currently the front runner.

Joel

[barchetta_boy]

Thanks very much everyone. That Denon and Q Acoustics setup has been mentioned in this forum before and it does look incredible ( lot of money too).

One concern I have is where the speakers would physically go and would they be on stands etc.

The Denon system linked above with the microspeakers is better from that point of view. I wonder if the space is just too small to do justice to the Q system.

Joel