FINALIST: Best Home Theater $50,000-$100,000
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This home is located on a bluff with a panoramic view of St. George, Utah, and its mountain vistas in the distance. It was only fitting that the home’s theater room was built with stunning vistas as well.
“This came to The Audio Installation Company as a spec project,” says company owner John Staples. “The contractor, Dave Jensen, has been known for his attention to detail and for giving the client just a little extra then the next contractor.”
This theater room will give the homeowners a lot extra. Start with the massive 160-inch Draper Onyx screen that’s, obviously, the first thing you see when you walk in the room.
Actually, you may not see it—the theater features automated curtains that draw in front of the screen, adding drama to the true cinema-like experience.
“The home is 11,300 square feet with a separate casita. With 20-foot ceilings in the entry and a great room with full window walls it was only fitting that the theater should have the same feeling of luxury and scale to match the rest of the home,” says Staples.
Beautiful mahogany hardwood adorns the room, and the JVC projector is mounted to not call attention to itself. There’s no hush box to enclose it, but any sound emanating from the projector would be overridden by the wave of sound to match the video performance.
All the speakers are hidden behind sound panels, including the two Velodyne in-wall subs and nine (yes, nine) B&W Speakers.
An RTI T2-C handheld controller is able to activate all of the gear, including those motorized curtains, to make for easy playtime in this theater.
Systems Design & Installation
The Audio Installation Company
St. George, Utah
www.audioinstallation.com
Equipment
1 Draper Onyx. 161“ wall screen
1 JVC DLA-RS-1U projector
1 Sanus mount VMPIB
1 Marantz SR 7002 7.1 Receiver
1 SpeakerCraft BB 505 2 channel amp
1 Marantz DV 4001 Blu-ray Player
8 B&W CWM 6260 L-R and surround speakers
1 B&W CWM Cinema-center speaker
2 Velodyne SC-1w in-wall sub Hidden Thunder
1 Velodyne SC1250 sub amp
1 Dish Network HD DVR receiver
1 Audioquest HDMI cable package
1 Tripp Lite HT 1000 UPS. Surge and UPS
1 RTI T2C
Doug said..>>I’m so tired of reading snotty comments by folks who feel free to judge someones set up as “lacking”. Compared to what? Your dream room? It’s all well and fine to attack someones set up…<<<
You are contradicting yourself here, from one sentence to the next. In addition, if you don’t want the “snotty” comments then don’t publish the theatre in a magazine! Sheesh! Are all HT installers just as thin skinned as the ones here?
Very impressive regardless of what people think. But hey, guys, for 100k, could you at least clean up the wiring behind the equipment stand? Speaking of, why did you go with a stand like that and not a rack installation?
Uh…yes the size of the screen is pushing it.
But short of spending about 30k more, if the owner digs it, whats it to you?
100k is a pretty steep budget for a home media room.
I’m so tired of reading snotty comments by folks who feel free to judge someones set up as “lacking”. Compared to what? Your dream room? It’s all well and fine to attack someones set up, but at least this guy put his money where his mouth is and BUILT A DEDICATED ROOM.
It looks like a fun room to watch a fun movie.
Would I use it to color grade a film? No.
Would I use it to watch Star Wars? You bet.
FYI: My screen is about the same size (154’) and it totally rocks! Joe Kane may not approve, but he ain’t payin’ the bills now is he ;-)
I currently own a JVC hd1 projector and love it but using a 160 ” screen is really pushing it. I have to agree that the equipment doesn’t match the level of the room. This seems to be the typical I don’t know anything about hometheater so just give me a room that has a big picture and makes noise. I blame it on the installer.
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This is another apparent aplication that is the destruction of the video excellence may companies try to achieve. They really did their customer a hugh miss service by not providing an adequate projector. Another case of people not knowing video perfomance. So sad