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Wife and I are in the prelim stages of designing our upcoming home build. I'm putting a dedicated HT in the basement that will be around 20x15. The screen wall will back up to an unfinished part of the basement. I've done some prelim guesswork and $10k should equip it well. I told her the price I'm looking at and she just said "Ok".
Yay!
The budget includes all equipment - projector, amps, screen, speakers, and HT seating. Not included in the budget is room construction, carpet, lighting, ect.
I'm carrying over my H/K 247 AVR to act as a pre/pro for the time being. It does HDMI processing and has pre-outs that I can dump to a dedicated amp.
Because I have an unfinished area on the other side of the wall, an IB build for subwoofers will work great. It'll cut down on extra costs, keep things tidy, and provide very good sound quality.
Here's what I'm looking at right now...we're probably 6-8 months out from really busting out the wallets so if anything, I'll likely get a little bit nicer PJ for a few bucks less. Everything else should remain fairly constant.
PJ & 100" white screen:
Epson 6100 (1080p) bundle from PJ Guys for around $1800 after rebates.
http://www.projectionguys.com/packages_Epson6100.cfm
5 channel Amp: Emotiva XPA-5
http://emotiva.com/xpa5.shtm
$850 shipped
Sub Amp: EP2500
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...Channel_Rackmount.html
Under $300 shipped
Subs: 2 x fi Audio IB 18" in an opposed manifold setup
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://ssl.perfora.net/www.ficaraudio.com/sess/utn;jsessionid=154a0b3cac40523/shopdata/0050_Speakers/0050_IB3/product_overview.shopscript">https://ssl.perfora.net/www......verview.shopscript</a>
$500
Fronts: av123 Rocket 850's
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$1300
Center: av123 bigfoot
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$450
Surrounds: av123 rocket bipoles
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$600
BR player: Panny BD60
$250
Power conditionings - some model of panamax
$400 - $600
I've got another $1000 budgeted in for room treatments, cables, and misc hardware.
And then around $2000 for the cinema seating.
All that added up comes in just under $10,000. If you were building is there any glaring excess I'm doing way or another? I'm not really sold on 7.1. The room just doesn't seem like it would be big enough to benefit from it.
I know it's hard to use the word "value" and $10,000($8k not counting the couch) in the same sentence but it really is a pretty modest budget for a dedicated HT setup compared to what I've seen a lot of people do. Performance wise I think I'm really going to get a lot out of system and don't know if I'd see significant gains without major additional costs.
Yay!
The budget includes all equipment - projector, amps, screen, speakers, and HT seating. Not included in the budget is room construction, carpet, lighting, ect.
I'm carrying over my H/K 247 AVR to act as a pre/pro for the time being. It does HDMI processing and has pre-outs that I can dump to a dedicated amp.
Because I have an unfinished area on the other side of the wall, an IB build for subwoofers will work great. It'll cut down on extra costs, keep things tidy, and provide very good sound quality.
Here's what I'm looking at right now...we're probably 6-8 months out from really busting out the wallets so if anything, I'll likely get a little bit nicer PJ for a few bucks less. Everything else should remain fairly constant.
PJ & 100" white screen:
Epson 6100 (1080p) bundle from PJ Guys for around $1800 after rebates.
http://www.projectionguys.com/packages_Epson6100.cfm
5 channel Amp: Emotiva XPA-5
http://emotiva.com/xpa5.shtm
$850 shipped
Sub Amp: EP2500
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...Channel_Rackmount.html
Under $300 shipped
Subs: 2 x fi Audio IB 18" in an opposed manifold setup
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://ssl.perfora.net/www.ficaraudio.com/sess/utn;jsessionid=154a0b3cac40523/shopdata/0050_Speakers/0050_IB3/product_overview.shopscript">https://ssl.perfora.net/www......verview.shopscript</a>
$500
Fronts: av123 Rocket 850's
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$1300
Center: av123 bigfoot
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$450
Surrounds: av123 rocket bipoles
http://www.av123.com//index.ph...m_virtuemart&Itemid=37
$600
BR player: Panny BD60
$250
Power conditionings - some model of panamax
$400 - $600
I've got another $1000 budgeted in for room treatments, cables, and misc hardware.
And then around $2000 for the cinema seating.
All that added up comes in just under $10,000. If you were building is there any glaring excess I'm doing way or another? I'm not really sold on 7.1. The room just doesn't seem like it would be big enough to benefit from it.
I know it's hard to use the word "value" and $10,000($8k not counting the couch) in the same sentence but it really is a pretty modest budget for a dedicated HT setup compared to what I've seen a lot of people do. Performance wise I think I'm really going to get a lot out of system and don't know if I'd see significant gains without major additional costs.