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I'm looking for a theatre display again.....
saint:
My buddy built me a fixed 100" screen for less than $200. Works a treat.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 12, 2012, 05:00:45 pm ---Well, most of those are usually nonissues at a decent theater. But the easiest counterpoint is that a 100" screen with a consumer surround sound system is also absolutely nothing like a good movie theater. At all. That's an important part of the comparison. It's not just the environment. It's also 20' of screen size and about 7500 watts of sound system.
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But the 20' screen and 7500 watt sound system is also meant for a much larger space at a much greater viewing distance.
Personally, I have a 92 inch screen, HD projector and 500 watt 7-channel system + 750 watt subwoofer, and I find it gives comparable experience to a real movie theater. Minus the annoying whispering, crinkling of candy wrappers or cell phones.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: Ond on July 12, 2012, 05:50:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 12, 2012, 05:00:45 pm ---
Well, most of those are usually nonissues at a decent theater. But the easiest counterpoint is that a 100" screen with a consumer surround sound system is also absolutely nothing like a good movie theater. At all. That's an important part of the comparison. It's not just the environment. It's also 20' of screen size and about 7500 watts of sound system.
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No. Sorry, but this is not necessarily so. Pompous mode on: [Come over to my place and I'll radically adjust your thinking on this. Sure a cheap all in one sound system is not going to reproduce big commercial theatre sound, but it is possible to not only match the experience but it exceed it with high fidelity consumer systems. It's also a matter of space, in a large or even medium theatre 7500 watts is appropriate, in a home theatre the same quality can be achieved with wattage appropriate to that space. A well matched and configured system with powerful subs can reproduce the wide dynamic range and quality of a commercial theatre.] Pompous mode off. :P
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^ This.
IMHO, I've found a good subwoofer properly EQ'd can exceed the quality of low-end in a commercial theater. At least in my experience.
saint:
There's also subjective size. I sit 2/3 back in a movie theater. The screen is a certain subjective size. I sit much closer in my home theater. The subjective size is pretty close match. These days, we prefer watching a movie in our home theater than out. If for no other reason, there is always some jackass talking or txting during the movie. No exaggeration, at least 3 of the last 4 or 5 movies we've been to in a theater have had someone being a jackass that way. Infuriating.
I also pay a ton less for food/drinks, set the temperature where we want it, eat/drink whatever we want, etc. Home theater is where it's at for us. We host movie night parties with our friends that are always a good time. We did obscure science fiction movie night one time, martial arts night another. Before the avengers we did a re-watching of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, etc.
Again, to each their own, and there's a lot to be said for dropping in a TV and being done with it without much fuss, but I believe the majority of folks who get to try someone's home theater with a projector would want to have one of their own.
nickbuol:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 12, 2012, 05:00:45 pm ---Well, most of those are usually nonissues at a decent theater. But the easiest counterpoint is that a 100" screen with a consumer surround sound system is also absolutely nothing like a good movie theater. At all. That's an important part of the comparison. It's not just the environment. It's also 20' of screen size and about 7500 watts of sound system.
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7500 watts (I know, made up number, but I get the point) is for large rooms. You need to fill massive air volumes. Plus you need to understand that watts can start becoming somewhat meaningless. I mean, take a receiver with 7 powered channels (plus the sub output of course) at 100 watts each. Some other company may have the same thing at 125 watts per channel, but you would be hard pressed to notice any really volume difference with the extra 175 watts. It just doesn't work the way that people think it does. I can say this that at 700 watts plus subwoofers (nothing too monsterous) and it will be a LOT louder than your local theater, even at well under max power. Pair that power with good circuitry and speakers that can reproduce clean sound at high volumes, and you are almost there.
I have only heard a movie in a theater maybe a handful of times where I didn't think that it would sound as good or better at home. A nice IMAX theater that I've been to, and the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood (has the brand new, fully calibrated, played at deafening reference level, Dolby Atmos.
I'm not talking HTIB setups with crap speakers (been there myself), but something a little decent with treated wall/floor/ceilings just like the big theaters. A hard surface box with the world's best speakers will still sound muddy and terrible with peaks and valleys all over the frequency range and different depending on where you are in the room.
Maybe you have some top 20 theater in your area and the "best" you've heard is Bose. It is hard for me to know, and theaters are definitely NOT for everyone. However, hit up the AVS forum http://www.avsforum.com/ and you will find that the hobby of home theater is HUGE and most people rarely ever step into a commercial theater again once they have one in their house.
Again, not for everyone, just like BYOArcades and such. Nothing wrong with going out to movies either, just don't be quite too quick to judge the home theater experience.
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