akdave

Baby Steps: Today cleared the room out (I had moved everything in there for the winter). I put insulation up between the floor joists. The track will run perpendicular to the joists. The sound board and sheet rock are next. Although the rock and track may be a few weeks out it was nice to finally take a step toward completion. It may be late summer before this room is completely buttoned up because we don't have a solid timeline on the double solid core door. This is a very interesting process for me. I have read a great deal on line on soundproofing, but I'm amazed at how many framers, insulators & drywallers up here find this to be a relatively foreign concept (with the exception of some separation for multifamily dwellings)! The pics show a sort of before and "during". The duct pic is flex duct we had put in which is allegedly designed to reduce the echo chamber effect & reduce sound transmission. Behind the beam (left side of the room facing the tv) there are solid metal ducts which we had lined with sound deadening material as well (by the heating co). The blue tape on the wall is a rough out of some screen sizes (130" - 150" 16x9) I'm toying with. The far right and left "dashes" are for a 2.35:1. This is relatively trial & error. Hopefully when someone else looks to do this they will be able to learn something from my experience. I have No One up here (Alaska) that has any experience trying to knock down serious sound. So far the HT's that I've seen up here they've gone for in wall or gear that ties in with the room - most on this forum can relate with trying to manage serious sound leak. (Especially you PRO guys!!) Anyway - sorry they're not Youthman quality but it's nice to be able to share! PS - Ok - so I'm having issues posting pics but am worried I will lose this text so I am posting and will HOPEFULLY ad pics when I figure this out!

Great setup new and old! Dust covers = attention to detail! Very nice!

What size is your screen right now? (sorry if I missed it)

This room keeps getting better and better! Going alllll the way back to the before pic to now - what a radical transformation!

Ref your room looks so great! I love how clean this is and when you invite a new person over they'll probably think what a cool screen you have but no idea what kind of monster sound you have hiding back there! Incredible! When you get the itch to upgrade, go to the movie theater and realize how superior your home experience is and it may "cure" you for a while! Just awesome - congrats!

I'm a big Tolkien fan. Read all the books, watched several versions of the Hobbit. This movie was a bit of a let down for me. I haven't researched it but I'll bet it was originally meant for 3D. There's too many scenes where it looks like the cinematography was geared toward an effect as opposed to telling the story. I also agree on it being a little long in the tooth. +1 - I love action but when the laws of physics are completely out the window (floating down rapids, making sniper perfect bow shots while jumping dwarf head to drawf head), it became distracting. It felt like effects were being forced over the story to me as well. I LOVED the Smaug diaglogue at the end, the SW 115 blended so well (with the Rf7ii's) it FELT like there was a large creature dialoguing in the room. That made me smile! My room is still studs and subfloor only above, so when the kiddo is down there is only so much volume that can be added at this point. Hopefully in the next 8-10 weeks we'll button it up!

I thought I heard a little something from down your road up here in alaska! Those are loud!

Late to the dance, but watched Capt Phillips last night as well. Good movie!

Any noise bleed upstairs? ;-) Congrats - that's an awesome set up! I enjoy your reviews and look forward to more.

The bar is set!

The shift of this thread to physical prowess challenges with speakers is intriguing! Soon there will be an "acrobatic positions on Klipsch" (all completely appropriate of course) thread and the forum will never be the same... Sound and fitness challenges - Crossfit will have nothing on Klipsch! One armed stand on an Rf 7ii anyone? I will not volunteer - we haven't met our deductible for health insurance this year...

Hopefully it will be loud enough! ;-) Congrats!

Yes. Indeed.

That's a huge bummer, sorry to hear they didn't get this one right. Frustrating would be a huge understatement. PS - I agree with Youth - hopefully a discount to come for your trouble!

Wow!

These are great prices, thank you for sharing! This may be painfully obvious, but if I bought the acoustic grid or pyramid and tried to surround them in maybe printable canvas to put another design on, would that essentially ruin the effect or would the sound still go through and "die" in the foam? Might be too subjective a question, but this is something I definitely want to employ in the future.

Good tip I'm about to start work on finishing up a room this summer, I will look into that! Thank you for the post.

Just WONDERFUL! Congrats - you should be proud! I bet every movie is a great experience!

So looking at the calendar, I haven't checked this thread in a while either. First of all - thank you for the responses. We have been moving on the addition to our house, but the theater room is mearly weathered in (insulation + vapor barrier) to date. Here's an update where I stand at the moment: I'm told there is some concern with the weight load of putting double drywall the entire span of the ceiling. A few options have been explored and the best consensus is this. We will be putting insulation in the ceiling (between the floor joists above) and running a track to decouple the ceiling. We will put soundboard in as well and I had someone with experience doing this in Seattle stop by and he recommended adding a layer of foam board insulation (R Max style) if weight was a consideration. I read through your link Tasdom (THANK YOU - That's a good site!) and I'm not sure how effective the various light weight mediums will be especially on knocking down the lower end sound. I will say we used the R Max in our new master bedroom upstairs and it knocks the wind noise down substantially! (we get 30-50mph winds 4-5 x's/winter) I realize there is a significant difference between wind noise and 100dB of home theater explosions... Additionally I am now debating the order of the layering of these materials - I was thinking dryall-foam board-track-sound board-floor joist; but it may be better to not have the smaller air gap according to that link and it might be better to run the two boards flush with the drywall, then the track and joists. (thoughts - suggestions please!) As for the door - here comes a decent expense: I am probably going to have a custom door(s) made that will be solid core wood on the theater side and probably exterior grade french doors on the house side due to the WAF. We will be running furring channels along the existing house side wall and stuffing that with insulation as well. (it's an insulated exterior wall as is). I have in mind to still push for the dual solid core door, but I imagine we're close to a year from this taking off so I need to space my battles. I truly appreciate your feedback and any more that you have I look forward to!

Glad the kids made it through surgery ok! :-)

Jealous! Great find!

Max thanks for the post and the review. No one around here that I know has one and there aren't opportunities to preview. Reviews like yours are beneficial to me.

First class as always! Just awesome! Clean. Blends in, but beautiful when one takes the time to look and I'm sure it sounds incredible! I am in awe! Thank you for sharing! Wow!

Thank you I just about choked on my lunch at work!

This thread is like following one of your kids through surgery! I hope they turn out ok! It's fascinating!