Planning A Home Theater?

HOME THEATER SYSTEMS ARE THE RAGE NOW.  Even if you don’t have room for one, you plan one in your daydreams.  But if you could have it all, what would you come up with? 

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Well, here’s that champion home theater…. Home Entertainment Magazine’s “Installation of the Year” winner for 2007.  This house in Austin, Texas, was 5 years in the building phase with all top quality fittings and the entire interior finished with custom wood carved panels and trim.

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You enter the theater room through a pair of massive bronze doors similar to the 19th century opera houses.  Once inside on the single-piece carpet, you choose your seat that is covered with hand-screened and embroidered fabric.  Some of the chairs are made without armrests so that you can lay down a la couch.  Then you sit back while the 200-lb. Runco MBX-1 high optics projector (capable of displaying a 40-foot-wide image) lights up the 8-foot screen. 

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The twenty four 12-inch sub-woofers have enough drive to vibrate the seats.  There are 38 distinct audio zones.  The least expensive speaker in the system is a $2,000 pair of in-walls.  Every piece of audio cable is trimmed to the precise length and the connectors are soldered on.  The photograph shows the system with the fabric-covered speaker grills removed for inspection.

If you think this room has even more goodies to run the price up to $3.4 million, then you’re right.  You can read all about the rest of it HERE.