Thomas our offer on a house was accepted yesterday so I now have a real HT room with which to start designing etc! I will be getting some measurements this wednesday evening but basically its a long narrow shoebox of a room. At the end where the TV and gear will go there's a small window that I plan on covering up with a black sheet that will cover the entire rear wall. I'm considering putting some sort of acoustic treatment behind this to help with rear reflections (ideas?) The centre will be suspended from the ceiling to allow me to angle it down towards the chairs and rears will be possitioned behind the seats as required (considering wall mounting them with piano hinges)
Anyway my real question is regarding IB's. Directly above the TV is a bedroom that will either end up being the office or the spare room and it has a closet direct above the right front speaker (or there abouts). My question is if I build an box that exits above the main speakers in a corner will that interfer with that main? Question #2 I would mount a tempest (or two) onto the box so that they are accessable at the base of the closet...what sort of sound or pressure would be felt in that upstairs room? #3 would the closet doors have to be open all the time?
If an IB isn't do able I'm considering building some box that will be long but not tall with a driver or two in each corner behind the maggies...given the narrow room I want to give the fronts as much breathing room as possible and I'm not sure where the sub will go up front and still provide room for the mains...unless I build another sub so both mains have a sub behind them. Option X is to just place the sub in the back of the room behind the rears..or build a box into the wall beside the gear rack where the driver and port could fire sideways into the room...as you can tell I'm only begining to think about what I will do once we take possesion on april 1st..and I have no real measurements at the moment to deal with real placement issues.
Below is a rough sketch of the basement layout...its not to scale but should give you an idea of what I'm talking about (hopefully anyway)
Anyway my real question is regarding IB's. Directly above the TV is a bedroom that will either end up being the office or the spare room and it has a closet direct above the right front speaker (or there abouts). My question is if I build an box that exits above the main speakers in a corner will that interfer with that main? Question #2 I would mount a tempest (or two) onto the box so that they are accessable at the base of the closet...what sort of sound or pressure would be felt in that upstairs room? #3 would the closet doors have to be open all the time?
If an IB isn't do able I'm considering building some box that will be long but not tall with a driver or two in each corner behind the maggies...given the narrow room I want to give the fronts as much breathing room as possible and I'm not sure where the sub will go up front and still provide room for the mains...unless I build another sub so both mains have a sub behind them. Option X is to just place the sub in the back of the room behind the rears..or build a box into the wall beside the gear rack where the driver and port could fire sideways into the room...as you can tell I'm only begining to think about what I will do once we take possesion on april 1st..and I have no real measurements at the moment to deal with real placement issues.
Below is a rough sketch of the basement layout...its not to scale but should give you an idea of what I'm talking about (hopefully anyway)
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