Hi to all,
Well it has been sometime since I last posted, and while the HT is still a work in progress, thought I would post some pics.
The room itself was an unused combined lounge/dining room, so I had solid doors fitted to both openings, then built a false wall to accomodate the screen and electronic masking system.
The false wall is covered in a black fabric and there are two doors which run from floor to ceiling on either side of the screen behind the Dali MS5's that allow access behind the screen to the motor and both masks.
The masks are basically two 3mm MDF panels covered in black velveteen fabric that move between the screen and the screen frame. Both top and bottom masks move via threaded rod driven by a garage door motor that runs off a remote.
The bottom thread is standard thread, and the top section is left hand thread, and when driven they either move outwards or inwards in unison. I have set the timing where one push of the button, the panels will mask the screen for a 2.35 movie and stop automatically. Another push of the button, and both masks will retract and stop behind the screen frame and out of sight for 1.78 movies and HDTV
This has made huge difference to watching movies and certainly was worth the effort; as you can see in two of the attached photos.
I built the riser, which is free standing, and this has blue rope lights running under the lip of each step and is filled with blow in insulation.
I would have preferred to house the equipment in flush with the wall, but with space contraints and the floorplan of the house this wasn't an option, so I decided to build a flexi rack with stainless steel all thread and followed on that theme with a DVD/CD rack.
The Sony 1272 is fixed to an aluminium plate, which in turn is fixed via 6 smalled wheeled chassis' and then simply slid into the unistrut. Because the room is the ground floor room to a two storey house, I had to cut out an access panel about the footprint size of the 1272, to be able to get access to the ceiling cavity of about 1 foot, and fix both unistruts to the bearers. The unistrut spans about six ceiling bearers and are fixed with bolts.
I still plan on doing some acoustic treatments to the room, and all the curtains need to be ripped out and hemmed, leaving about 5mm from the bottom of the curtain to the carpet. At the moment the curtains are all cut to long and they bunch up at the bottom, so they don't sit right. We have been told to let them hang for a little while as they will drop, so this is what we have done. My wife did all the curtains and helped me in many other areas, so kudos to her.
And before I forget, I want to once again thank Peter for doing the voltage conversion and shipping of my two Halos...they do sound great.
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, I do look forward to any feedback.
Oh and before I go, the HT system is:
Anthem AVM-30
Halo A21
Halo A51
Lumagen Vision Pro
Toshiba HDTV Box
Toshiba SD900E
Energy AS180
Dali Euphonias MS5's, CS4, AS2 and RS3's
Cheers Andrew....
Well it has been sometime since I last posted, and while the HT is still a work in progress, thought I would post some pics.
The room itself was an unused combined lounge/dining room, so I had solid doors fitted to both openings, then built a false wall to accomodate the screen and electronic masking system.
The false wall is covered in a black fabric and there are two doors which run from floor to ceiling on either side of the screen behind the Dali MS5's that allow access behind the screen to the motor and both masks.
The masks are basically two 3mm MDF panels covered in black velveteen fabric that move between the screen and the screen frame. Both top and bottom masks move via threaded rod driven by a garage door motor that runs off a remote.
The bottom thread is standard thread, and the top section is left hand thread, and when driven they either move outwards or inwards in unison. I have set the timing where one push of the button, the panels will mask the screen for a 2.35 movie and stop automatically. Another push of the button, and both masks will retract and stop behind the screen frame and out of sight for 1.78 movies and HDTV
This has made huge difference to watching movies and certainly was worth the effort; as you can see in two of the attached photos.
I built the riser, which is free standing, and this has blue rope lights running under the lip of each step and is filled with blow in insulation.
I would have preferred to house the equipment in flush with the wall, but with space contraints and the floorplan of the house this wasn't an option, so I decided to build a flexi rack with stainless steel all thread and followed on that theme with a DVD/CD rack.
The Sony 1272 is fixed to an aluminium plate, which in turn is fixed via 6 smalled wheeled chassis' and then simply slid into the unistrut. Because the room is the ground floor room to a two storey house, I had to cut out an access panel about the footprint size of the 1272, to be able to get access to the ceiling cavity of about 1 foot, and fix both unistruts to the bearers. The unistrut spans about six ceiling bearers and are fixed with bolts.
I still plan on doing some acoustic treatments to the room, and all the curtains need to be ripped out and hemmed, leaving about 5mm from the bottom of the curtain to the carpet. At the moment the curtains are all cut to long and they bunch up at the bottom, so they don't sit right. We have been told to let them hang for a little while as they will drop, so this is what we have done. My wife did all the curtains and helped me in many other areas, so kudos to her.
And before I forget, I want to once again thank Peter for doing the voltage conversion and shipping of my two Halos...they do sound great.
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, I do look forward to any feedback.
Oh and before I go, the HT system is:
Anthem AVM-30
Halo A21
Halo A51
Lumagen Vision Pro
Toshiba HDTV Box
Toshiba SD900E
Energy AS180
Dali Euphonias MS5's, CS4, AS2 and RS3's
Cheers Andrew....
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