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This picture shows the screen on the north wall. It is eight feet wide by six feet tall (ten feet diagonal).

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The entrance to the media room is on the east wall.

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The rear of the projector is shown. It is flanked by acoustical panels. These panels are located above the seating area to reduce audio reflectivity in the area of the viewer.

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You can see the gear and left front speaker next to the screen.

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Notice the acoustical foam mounted to the left side of the seating area. It reduces audio reflectivity. That's the "captain's chair", by the way (my seat).

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We've got acoustical foam mounted on the rear wall, too. You can see bass traps in all the upper corners. I mounted them in varying directions to achieve maximum dispersion.

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Here is another picture of the rear (south) wall but on the other side of the room.

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You can see the ceiling-mounted acoustical tiles above the seating area in this picture. You can also see the binding posts around the perimeter of the room. I also have one mounted near the floor for the subwoofer.

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Here is the seating area. It consists of two recliners, which translates to me and my wife or me and a guest. Notice the hand-crafted pillows, courtesy of my mom.

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This is a shot of the southeast corner of the room.

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This picture shows the entrance of the media room and the acoustical foam tiles on the east side of the seating area.

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This is a good picture of a bass trap in the northeast corner.

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Zach Winter made these speaker stands for me. I requested two more than are pictured here in case I ever go with a 7.2 configuration.

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All the binding posts terminate under the screen. There is a better picture of this later.

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Here is the wall-mounted rack (Peerless), which holds all the gear. Not pictured is the VCR. I'm not really sure what to do with it because I ran out of room on the rack. I've got an extra shelf, but nowhere to mount it on the column.

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This picture shows the bass trap mounted over the gear in the northwest corner. You also get a good view of the wall sconce we chose for the room.

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Here is another shot of the pillows that my mom made for the theater.

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This picture shows the center channel stand that Zach Winter made for me. I use a full-sized floor speaker for my center channel because it seems to work better for DTS-encoded discs.

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This is a good picture of the binding post terminations. Most of them are empty. I asked them to add more than I currently need for future use. You never know where this madness will end. I don't have any binding posts on the north wall. I figured that I didn't need any there since the gear is on the north wall. You can also see my other non-electrical wiring pictured. We are wired for two separate phone lines (CAT5E), two LAN lines (CAT5E), and two RG6 in this room.

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An unused binding post for future use.

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This is a good shot of the acoustical foam tiles we used on the walls to either side of the seating area. I mounted them in alternating directions for maximum dispersion.

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Here is the front of the projector.

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It's a homemade subwoofer. I guess you probably guessed that. Mike Meier built the enclosure for me.

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You can see the weather stripping I had installed around the door in the theater. The goal was sound isolation and to keep light from the hallway from seeping through the door.

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Here is an IR repeater I mounted behind the projector. If you're patient you can operate the projector by bouncing the signal off the screen. The repeater just makes life easier.

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This is a really bad picture of the ceiling-mounted outlet. The projector and IR repeater are plugged into the outlet. It has a surge suppressor built into it. I suppose this is a bit redundant, considering we have a whole-house surge suppressor but you can never be too careful. You can also see where I patched the hole where the conduit ran. The conduit was cut sometime during construction rendering it useless.

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This is the 5 BNC to VGA coaxial cable I use to bring the signal from the video scaler to the projector. I had to run it up the wall and across the ceiling because the conduit I was planning to use was broken during construction. Bummer.

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Here is another bass trap. This one is mounted in the southeast corner.

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This shot of the rear (south) wall shows some of the acoustical foam tiles I installed.

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This is another shot of the acoustical foam tiles on the east wall across from the seating area.

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This is another shot of the projector and acoustical foam tiles.