Cinema Renovation

Our client contacted Sydney Hi-Fi Castle Hill after recently purchasing a home that had a pre-existing media room in the basement. He explained that the previous owners had left some equipment but had taken some key components rendering the room inoperable. He asked for some indication on what it would cost to get the room running again and if we would come out and have a look.

Before

Based on the images of the old system it appeared that the company that designed the room had very little to no idea of speaker placement plus the room was not long enough to accommodate two rows of seating comfortably. Once we had visited the room and assessed what we had to work with we could go about designing a system to meet our clients brief of a single row of seating with high-performance image and sound.

Design

We proposed a design that added wall mounted surround speakers on either side of the row of seating and used the existing ceiling speaker cutouts for Atmos. We proposed an acoustically transparent screen in 120″ which was as large as the room would take and not have the image to low. The new screen allowed the placement of three speakers in a custom wall box to sit behind to assist in overall immersion. Two subwoofers were suggested to supply plenty of bass.

Client Decision & Equipment List

KRIX speakers were proposed throughout the cinema, We specified KRIX Magaphonix In-Wall for the front left, centre and right, KRIX Dynamix Mk2 surrounds, KRIX Hemispherix for Atmos plus a pair of KRIX Volcanix subwoofers for bass.

Other Components Specified

Projection is by JVC, Screen is Majestic AT, amplification by Marantz, control is provided by Control4 and networking is Araknis

Completion!

Due to all of the walls being constructed of core filled block the room is very quiet and the system fills the room with awesome dynamics and tones of bass which is exactly what our client requested. He and his family are thrilled with the results and are certain to give the room plenty of use.