A little over a year ago I began the Home Theater journey and now it is time to remodel. After learning more about it and wanting to have a more polished theater look we are venturing out to reimagine the room. I decided that watching the Ghostbusters: Afterlife 4K as I had just gotten the preorder in, that would be the time to start the process.

We moved into this house a year ago and one of the features I wanted was a theater room. This place has a small theater room essentially around 19x11.8 feet and there was even existing equipment. The original equipement included the theater chairs, an interlaced HD projector from 2004, an old Denon AVR, several old speakers and a blown out subwoofer. The screen was 100 inch Stewart Filmscreen silver or grey screen type. We used this setup for several months until I started towards the first set of upgrades. You will also notice in the photo that there was even a bookcase to the side of the screen.

For audio, I went with Klipsch and I got 2x RP-280F, 4x RP-250S, 4x RP-500SA, and RP-504C. The subwoofer I went with 2x SVS PB-1000 and so this became a 7.2.4 setup. The screen at first I had gotten a 135" 16:9 Akia CINEWHITE UHD-B screen but soon afterwards I replaced it with a Stewart Filmscreen 144" 16:9 StudioTek 130 G4 which made a huge difference in picture quality. The project is a Sony VW715ES native 4K and I used a Denon AVR 4700 with an Outlaw x7000 amplifier for the extra channels.

The rear is being raised to 21" and this was decided through evaluations. These evaluations included the size of the room, where the front seats could go, the length of rear seats opening, the height to the rear soffit among other items. We built two pallet like platforms of 6" height and a square enough to hold one chair to evaluate varying heights for the seats. Even up to 30" may be more ideal, always depending on the line of sight to the bottom of the screen, however at 30" you do need a railing installed and we are getting to close to the soffit overhead. The room to build the stairs also comes into question then as well so the happy place was 21" high and 73" depth to the rear wall.

So why is the theater room being reimagined? First I just ran all the cables across the room and so we want to have a more hiden build. The second is we want to have two rows of chairs and for that the rear needs to be raised up further. The room currently only has a 7 inch riser in the back and so we want to rise it to at least 21" and get two rows of chairs. Lastly, there are some audio replacements I want to consider. For example, I would like to replace the RP-500SA speakers with in-ceiling speakers. The journey begins...