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vito
You know with a large projector screen, high quality sound. kind of like having one room like a single theater in AMC all to yourself. Seating and carpet design isn't important. I would liked to note that I am not planning to do this anytime soon. Kind of like a foolish 17 year old boys dream to have oneday maybe when he's in his 40s if everything goes as well as he wishes in the future.
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Seating Carpet and wall treatments are important it all effects the acoustics of the room and how the Theater will sound also it adds to the emersion experience which is what surround sound is all about too...so maybe $30,0000 and up in todays dollars....
Seating Carpet and wall treatments are important it all effects the acoustics of the room and how the Theater will sound also it adds to the emersion experience which is what surround sound is all about too...so maybe $30,0000 and up in todays dollars....
How much is a home theater?
hiii
I was around best buy and I noticed one of the hone theaters they had for display. It had a nice projecter and chairs too. You can feel the sound. I'm just curious as to how much does such a thing cost. How much would it be to keep/maintain it?
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There is no fair way to answer this question because you can spend as much or as little as you want. The range is literally from a few hundred dollars to a few hundred thousand dollars or more. You would have to decide what you want to spend the money on depending on what your focus is.
You can get pretty nice theatre seats for about $600/ea, there are more expensive ones and cheaper ones so maybe you would rather go with less expensive chairs to allow more funds for audio or video components. The screen depending on size and quality can cost a few thousand or you could opt to save money on this by building your own. You can get bulk Da-Lite screen material from Cousins Video. http://store.cousinsvideo.com/cut-to-size.html You can build a three or four thousand dollar screen for a few hundred dollars.
You can get an AVR for as little as a few hundred dollars but the quality of these really leaves a lot to be desired. A better quality but more expensive option would be to buy a preamp/processor plus external amplifiers. This can get really expensive but personally I don't think you need to spend more than $10K on a processor to reach a level where spending more would gain nothing. You don't need to spend more than about $2K before you reach a point where spending more diminishes rapidly. For power amplifiers, there is a dirt cheap option in a company called Emotiva http://emotiva.com/xpa3.shtm For the money these are really hard to beat. A good compromise is to buy a nice AVR with preamp outputs in the $1000 range then buy something like the Emotiva 3-ch power amplifier to power the left/right/center speaker. This frees up the AVR's power supply to power the surround speakers very effectively.
Speakers is the most difficult for me to make suggestions. There are very few commercially available speakers that are very good at all in my opinion. I've been designing and building my own for decades. There are a bunch of typical mass market brands that are recommended here on Yahoo all the time but in reality none of these are any good. One of the favorites is Klipsch and while I would never want these myself, they do have the advantage of higher efficiency than some of the competition which means you need less amplifier power which in turn means you are less likely to distort your amplifier so the net result is that they may work better in a typical mass market system especially if an AVR is used to power the main and center speaker. If you really want astounding dynamics however you need something a little more substantial like commercial grade cinema speakers or my favorite, some big floor to ceiling line arrays. The commercial cinema speakers are relatively inexpensive, maybe a little over $1000/ea.
The best subwoofers are custom DIY designs. Outside of that there are a couple brands that make some nice subwoofers. SVS and HSU make some of the best commercial subwoofers and are not terribly expensive, around $2000. Emotiva also makes some nice subwoofers for the money in the few hundred dollar range. If you can do DIY yourself you can save money but if you have to find someone who knows what they are doing to do it for you it will likely be more expensive. One big advantage to DIY is that there are no limitations. You can make what ever you want, enough to structurally damage your house if you want. If you really like to feel the room shake with movie sound effects then that's the route to go.
You can also get bass shakers to attach to your chair but from my experience these are pretty lame. They tend to operate only at too high frequency, perhaps 30 ~ 50 Hz. They buzz more than they shake. I would rather just have the woofer capacity to shake the room and not need bass shakers.
Best Buy isn't the place to buy a high end system. You need to find an independent high-end audio video store in your area and let them show you what's possible.
mk
There is no fair way to answer this question because you can spend as much or as little as you want. The range is literally from a few hundred dollars to a few hundred thousand dollars or more. You would have to decide what you want to spend the money on depending on what your focus is.
You can get pretty nice theatre seats for about $600/ea, there are more expensive ones and cheaper ones so maybe you would rather go with less expensive chairs to allow more funds for audio or video components. The screen depending on size and quality can cost a few thousand or you could opt to save money on this by building your own. You can get bulk Da-Lite screen material from Cousins Video. http://store.cousinsvideo.com/cut-to-size.html You can build a three or four thousand dollar screen for a few hundred dollars.
You can get an AVR for as little as a few hundred dollars but the quality of these really leaves a lot to be desired. A better quality but more expensive option would be to buy a preamp/processor plus external amplifiers. This can get really expensive but personally I don't think you need to spend more than $10K on a processor to reach a level where spending more would gain nothing. You don't need to spend more than about $2K before you reach a point where spending more diminishes rapidly. For power amplifiers, there is a dirt cheap option in a company called Emotiva http://emotiva.com/xpa3.shtm For the money these are really hard to beat. A good compromise is to buy a nice AVR with preamp outputs in the $1000 range then buy something like the Emotiva 3-ch power amplifier to power the left/right/center speaker. This frees up the AVR's power supply to power the surround speakers very effectively.
Speakers is the most difficult for me to make suggestions. There are very few commercially available speakers that are very good at all in my opinion. I've been designing and building my own for decades. There are a bunch of typical mass market brands that are recommended here on Yahoo all the time but in reality none of these are any good. One of the favorites is Klipsch and while I would never want these myself, they do have the advantage of higher efficiency than some of the competition which means you need less amplifier power which in turn means you are less likely to distort your amplifier so the net result is that they may work better in a typical mass market system especially if an AVR is used to power the main and center speaker. If you really want astounding dynamics however you need something a little more substantial like commercial grade cinema speakers or my favorite, some big floor to ceiling line arrays. The commercial cinema speakers are relatively inexpensive, maybe a little over $1000/ea.
The best subwoofers are custom DIY designs. Outside of that there are a couple brands that make some nice subwoofers. SVS and HSU make some of the best commercial subwoofers and are not terribly expensive, around $2000. Emotiva also makes some nice subwoofers for the money in the few hundred dollar range. If you can do DIY yourself you can save money but if you have to find someone who knows what they are doing to do it for you it will likely be more expensive. One big advantage to DIY is that there are no limitations. You can make what ever you want, enough to structurally damage your house if you want. If you really like to feel the room shake with movie sound effects then that's the route to go.
You can also get bass shakers to attach to your chair but from my experience these are pretty lame. They tend to operate only at too high frequency, perhaps 30 ~ 50 Hz. They buzz more than they shake. I would rather just have the woofer capacity to shake the room and not need bass shakers.
Best Buy isn't the place to buy a high end system. You need to find an independent high-end audio video store in your area and let them show you what's possible.
mk
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