Thought I would share some photos of my Home theatre room. 

I'm on a pretty tight budget so everything is DIY, helps when your an electrician but most of the gear is also budget conscious.

Speakers: Fronts: Richter Wizards Mk4 ex demo from Len Wallis last pair to be sold I think.

                Centre: Richter Unicorn Mk4 from Audio Junction runout model half price

                Surrounds: B@W DS6 the expensive item in room purchased before marriage

                Surround back: Wharfdale $200 from grays I think

                Subwoofer: Richter Thor Mk 4 

Reciever: Yamaha RXA 2000 refurbished model from Eastwood HiFi

Bluray Player: Sony  BDP-S790

HTPC running Kodi

Projector: Benq W1070

 

Ceiling was done by painting ceiling black first and than painting 12mm thick 1200 by 900 sheets of MDF with a stone textured paint and fixing to ceiling.

Fixed house frame timber sourced from building sites onto ceiling against cornice for LED strip lighting and then nailed 230 wide timber panels to that for the shelf and nailed 40mm by 20mm timber to that to hide the LED lights.

Led lights from bunnings at around $10 a roll.

Hooked up a 12v trigger cable from projector to relays normally closed contacts so when projectors turns on the LED lights turn off.

Edited October 20, 201510 yr by powerav

Blue lights aren't my thing but .....     

Love it

My main reason for doing this was for re-sale value. I would like to sell home in a couple of years, would sell with screen and projector still in place and put the proceeds to a dedicated stereo room. Really not into HT much anymore.

Update to System.

Integra 30.5 and Rotel 1552.

Thanks to Bruno28 for the Rotel. WOW! first time with separates and YES baby they do make a difference. Very happy. Was scared it wouldn't be an improvement over Yamaha Rx-a2000 but it kills it.

Bloody awesome.

excellent ! always nice when an upgrade pays off too. 

Have just ordered a Elektra 3 Channel from Bill McClean so exciting times ahead. Will be keeping the Rotel for Atmos heights speakers. 

Have just ordered a Elektra 3 Channel from Bill McClean so exciting times ahead. Will be keeping the Rotel for Atmos heights speakers. 

 

 

awesome ! will be very pleased with that for the front stage... and great thing can get upgraded to upto 7 ch down the road when need arises  ! 

awesome ! will be very pleased with that for the front stage... and great thing can get upgraded to upto 7 ch down the road when need arises  ! 

That's what I was thinking in the end, get the meat first and the sides later.

Getting ready for something else.

Part 1 has arrived now waiting on Cambridge 651R.

Silly me got excited and I thought they gave me a 7 channel one but upon opening case realised it was what I ordered a 3 Channel.

 

Congrats mate, I also thought you must have upgraded to a 7 channel too! The CA and Elektra combo should be very very nice!

Having withdrawal systems as I am still waiting n the Cambridge, should be here tomorrow hopefully but yes very boring with out Audio.

Yeah sounds great but er I dunno I miss my Integra I used to have already.

Nice, power to burn, great work.

I take it back about the Integra, this 651 kicks ass baby.

good to hear enjoying the benefits

 

I can sure bet unpacking that elektra had you going all ooh and ahh... sure has had me even on the 3rd time !   never fails to amaze and thats before plugging it even in hehe

 

ps what ever you do, dont throw away the shipping box for the elektra. will come in handy down the track, if ever need to ship it to arthur...when want those extra channels 

3 hours ago, powerav said:

I take it back about the Integra, this 651 kicks ass baby.

You've gone through a massive change and can take a while to tune the ears to a new sound, i reckon it ail just get better and better!

 

Nice work!

I think I now have a dilemma, I think the Elektra is too powerful for the Richter Wizards. When going thru Power Amp it was sounding very harsh so I pulled the out speaker wires and put into the 651R and it sounded sweet.

So looks I either need bigger speakers or to sell the Power Amp.

Have you level matched properly with the elektra driving proceedings?

 

Sound odd that it would be "harsh"

sounds odd to me. the elektra is the definition of iron fist in a silk glove. as a note my first experience of elektra many years ago was with richter centre, surrounds etc. shouldn't be harsh….

 

not to say speaker upgrades don't bring gains…. but as suggested by pie face…sounds like something else going on...

34 minutes ago, Pieface said:

Have you level matched properly with the elektra driving proceedings?

 

Sound odd that it would be "harsh"

Sorry but what is "Elektra driving proceedings"?

Good examples were Hotel California and Linda Randstadt poor pityful me. I am sure anyone doing a blind test would pick the audio coming straight from the 651R everytime.

Sorry but what is "Elektra driving proceedings"?

Sorry mate. With the elektra driv8ng the speakers. The gain staging might be different between the 651r power section and the preouts to the elektra.
You would need to level match seperately for each power section...