Home theatre
 

Anyone build one into a spare bedroom or part of the living area.

Any stores around here have them on display?

Bavarian who posts here is planning one in the house he is building in our village.

Friend of ours built one in his 3rd bedroom. Decided he didn't need a 3rd bedroom more than he wanted a home theater set up. So he took out the closet bi-fold doors and built in his home studio theater.

Galaxy Electronics is pre-wiring our home for speakers and volume control switches as part of our build package. We met with them -explained where we wanted speakers and the volume control switches in the lanai and great room. He put together a bid and the numbers were provided for our Villages contract. He does a lot of the low voltage wiring for new constructions (cable/telephone). We are also mounting a 2x6 in our great room wall for mounting flat panel TV.. We also raised the cable outlets and added electric outlets where we will hang TVs on the lanai. All this came up with the discussion with our planner Melissa Standford. - she was excellent!!! Roof went on today - we are excited about a 11/16 closing on Silk Tree terrace. We are building a super stretched custom Iris.

Home Theater install
 

Jay of Audio Video Authority is excellent. 352-516-7900. He will reinforce the 24" center interior wall metal studs, go into the attic and run HDMI cable to a remote location (closet), add electric and cable outlets high on the wall and in th closet, run infrared sensors, then hang it on the wall for a no wire "look." He will do the same for speakers throughout the room.

A good guy with a great attitude. He will get online to find the info to make anything work properly. AND - he'll find a way to eliminate all but one of those clickers!

Bob's Home Theatre on 27 He gave me ideas when I built mine.

I'll check him out, tks

Home theater
 

Congrats! Now I just told my buddy that TV won't allow pre-wiring for speakers ect. I'll PM you for contact info. This is great!!

I can understand adding a 2x6 for wall mounting a large tv and moving cable outlets but aren't there a lot of wireless speakers out on the market now? It would save needing to move the wiring if you wanted to move the speaker or add more of them.

Been working on this a bit over the last couple of weeks, I decided to work an into our dining area which we will never use to dine.

The area is about 10 x 14, rather than use a large TV, I learned you can paint a wall with special paint, cost about $150, and use a projector instead. cost about $500-$1000

I have a 10' X 10' wall that I can make a 100" screen on, much nicer than a $3,000-$5,000 Plasma etc.

Then get 5.1 system, that is a 6 speaker setup. they cost anywhere from $700-$1500 on average.

Not as much as I first thought.

So it can be done for $1350 - $3,000 for a very nice system

The wires can be run in walls from the attic, or before hand if building.

You can also have zone out on your lanai.

In researching it I learned it'd not rocket science, if anyone wants more info I'll try and help or give you some links to good web sites.


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If you go the projector route, be sure to price replacement bulbs for the projector you're considering as bulbs can be very expensive. Also check the number of hours of the bulb and compare.

When I move down here in a month or so, I might have a used Meridian system that you might convince me to part with for pennies on the dollar. Meridian is the state of the state of the art for home theater audio...it just got too bloody costly to keep it up to date - we are talking front... mains that run $16g new....yeah, it's not HDMI...but, it still will shake your socks and I am serious about penny's on the dollar...heck, my rear speakers came from the president of COSTCO's exercise room. I decided that I liked analog better than digital (and am moving back to vinyl in the process..either that or Bluray). Please don't consider this an ad...given the loss I'm going to take, I'm not all that interested in selling it...but, if you listen to it and fall in love...I'd rather see it go to a good home than languish as my bedroom sound system. Besides - rooms in TV homes are small.

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