hi i'm scott newnam ceo of audio advice today i'm going to take you in a theater
we're just finishing up it's actually a converted attic space the customer loves
music concerts and movies so i'm going to spend a little bit more extra time today talking
about behind the scenes how to get your audio right and get your video right let's head in
all right so the first thing i want to talk to you about is the screen itself is a 2.4
aspect ratio meaning we've got a full wide screen that's used for movies it's a 127 inch
acoustically transparent screen from stewart filmscreen this means that we've got the three front
speakers behind the screen so the sound is coming directly at you from the screen that's paired up
with a sony 715es projector now why sony why this 715 it's about an 1800 lumens projector many
times people come to us and say oh i want the most lumens i can get and what i can tell you is that's
not what you should be looking for you're trying to find the right balance for the right amount
of lumens for the size screen that you've got how much light you've got in the room but also maxing
out with great colors and with great processing these sony projectors that are out like the 715
they have incredible processing meaning when you're watching something you don't see all the
blocking or slow moving objects everything is fast and looks tight and the colors are just beautiful
so this room has incredible lighting so we've got a blue led lighting strip that's going along
facing upwards so it's not hitting the screen we have recessed lights that are the task lighting
in the room plus we've got the sconces which add those accents but again do not shine on the screen
itself while the movie's being watched and then we've got the floor led lighting that enables
people to move around during a movie safely get their popcorn etc we actually have an entire
video on how to do this correctly if you go to audioadvice.com and jump over to our home theater
section we have a bunch of videos on how to's but one of them is just how to get the lighting right
in a theater room like this you'll see here where we did a control4 keypad on the way into the room
so you can turn on the lights when you come in one button press the lights go off the projector
turns off everything turns off when you leave the room and all this is controllable from the remote
control itself you can see sitting here that when the customer presses play on the remote
it actually turns off the recessed lighting and sets the sconces at a certain level and
when you hit pause it automatically pauses the video turns on the lights and has it ready but
i can tell you sitting in this room in any of the seats the picture just totally pops
okay so let's talk about the audio in this room as i mentioned the customer loves movies so this
had to be an atmos room so what have we got set up here it's actually a 7.3.4 system so what
does that mean so first we have an acoustically transparent screen as i mentioned with the left
speaker center and right behind the screen those are all jbl synthesis which have incredible horn
tweeters which give you that smack and pow when you're watching a movie and action films
the other thing we have is we have two sides right here and you'll see they're actually hidden behind
the acoustic panels and then we have rears back in the back the next thing to note is the ceiling
speakers so we have two atmos speakers that are angled down at the main seating position
and then we have two behind it that are angled at the main seating position as well
giving us the full atmos system and then we get to the subs and as many of you know if you're
into theaters you know doing more than one sub is critical in nailing all the seats and you can see
there's six seats in this theater we wanted them all to have an incredible experience including
through the bass so we actually have two 13-inch subs up front and a 13-inch sub in the back and
by doing that we're able to even out the bass in all of the seats in this room if you're trying to
figure out how to design your own theater jump over to audioadvice.com go to our home theater
page you'll see we've actually got a full interactive tool you put in the dimensions
of your room and tell it how many speakers you want and it will actually interactively tell
you where every single speaker should go and help you design and build your theater
okay so here's the rack in the back of the room a couple things i just want to point out to you so
first we've got incredible networking gear up in here and actually a control4 processor that we're
using for the remote control that i'll show you in a minute below that you'll see this open spot
that's where the ps5 is coming in for christmas below that we've got a roku apple tv and a blu-ray
player and i'm going to leave the customer one of the cool audio advice demo discs in here as
well below that you'll see the anthem receiver and an extra anthem amp for the extra channels
to power this entire room above each you'll see we have a perforated screen that enables heat
dissipation to come out because we've got this back in this area for people getting started in
this industry one of the things we teach them is you really got to learn calibration and you've got
to learn how to do a rack in a way that dissipates heat really well so one of the things we're really
focused on is nailing remotes in the theater room nothing's worse than having four or five remotes
all floating around you can't find them no one knows how to use them in this case we're using
control4 system, a control4 remote when the customer hits play it automatically starts to
play the movie it turns the lights down sets the scene in the room when the customer hits pause
it automatically pauses the movie turns the lights back up so you can use the restroom grab something
to eat and come right back in addition you'll see there are custom buttons one two and three
and what we typically do is program custom button one that goes to a 16:9 screen so that they
can watch football and other sports and television custom button two pressed moves the screen to
full 2.4 movie position and custom button 3 toggles the sconce lights on and off
all right so let's talk about the theater seats a little bit they have six row one revolution home
theater seats in here what's really fascinating about the revolution seat there used to be a chair
called the evolution it was the number one selling chair that we sold in home theaters then i went
to row one and said we can make this thing better and i came up with three things i'm like we could
make the ultimate chair by making these three adjustments which had the ability to adjust the
leds in the cup holder and below it also have the right memory function so you could move the chair
to the right memory functions it's actually got a little place where if you drop popcorn etc it
catches it so you don't have all the popcorn below the seat anyways they made the chair for us it
is now the number one selling chair by far in the history of audio advice we actually ship them
all over the country one of the cool things that i came up with when we were designing the revolution
chair was to have the actual tray tables sitting in the arm of every single chair so every chair
comes with them and then you simply pop it in here you've got a place to put your drink
that doesn't slip off with the indention here put your food or your popcorn and you're good to go
okay so one of the things i want to show you in terms of projector calibration most companies that
are starting out learning how to do home theaters that watch our videos you all know how to set your
colors right and basically get your shift right your zoom in right but one of the things i find a
lot of people don't do well is to understand to go in here and actually do panel alignment so you'll
see on the sony here if you go down to the tools section you can actually drop down and you'll see
there's a space here called panel alignment go down there click adjust and what you're really
trying to do is to line up the red green and blue panels so i'll just show you as an example
if i'm shifting by zone i can go down to adjust and this will bring up a grid on your screen
and you'll bring the cursor to the middle and you can actually select it
and move the panels to get your red green and blue perfectly on we actually do this after every
single theater that we do in this particular case i came into the theater our technicians were done
and the thing is just rocking they've nailed the video and the customer just loves it
so the final thing we do in every theater once it's all completely done is to calibrate the
audio itself so i'm actually running arc genesis on the system right now it's actually calibrating
the frequency response of every single speaker in the room so all the audio device team members
are experts at doing these calibrations if you're buying an anthem from us nationwide and we ship it
to you we actually will send you the tips and tricks on how to do arc genesis the very best
so a big thank you to the install team that did this theory you guys did an amazing job
thank you to the customer for letting us come in here it's been a lot of fun videoing this theater
if you want to learn more about home theaters or setting them up or how to design or how to
install jump over to audioadvice.com we've got lots of content videos on theaters we've
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