Tour Paul's Home Theater
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2018
- Paul brings us into his home to view his modest 12.1 channel Dolby Atmos theater build with an acoustically transparent screen, Emotiva amps, 4K projector, all ribbon loudspeakers and powered by 2 P10 Power Plants. An intimate view of the family's theater. Have a question you want to ask Paul? www.psaudio.com/ask-paul/
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I think I'm as impressed with the photography as much as the home theatre.
more so, actually.
Yes - 8x10 chromes are awesome; I’ve even seen 8x10 Kodachromes. I used to do 4x5 Ektachrome, and that was special.
paul lovely home cinema but some of your speaker cables look like cables used in uk homes to run power into lights and plug sockets. have to say only thing in my cinema set up that looks 100 times better is my qed genesis silver spiral bi wire lol and DENON 3313UD over any oppo prefer movies in 3D to 4k as denon picture quality and 3D imaging is pretty flawless in 2k
Gawd, the cost of framing those treasures shows that Mr. P.G. is well-heeled..!
For being a two channel guy, I still think you've got a very nice home theater. Thank you very much for sharing.
Oh but Paul! Do a Part II and give us a tour of what's behind the screen! 😀
Omar Alvarado I second that!
"Voice Of The Theater"'s, perhaps? :)
Paul said they were Bohlender Gaebener drivers (at least for the mids and highs).
@@ronshaw80 Yeah, true, but, I wanna see what's back there. 😀
Omar Alvarado, I want to see it too. The comment was actually aimed at David Perkins.
Thanks for sharing Paul. Love the photography as well!
Fantastic and beautifully done!!! Thanks for sharing.
What a nice warm FAMILY'S theatre you've got Paul!
I guess you rarely go there alone!
Thank for sharing Paul. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, Paul!
Thank you for sharing your personal home theater. Looks awesome!
wow it was a fantastic wonderful room. thanks for showing us.
Beautifully put together, wouldn't have expected less. Loved the photos too!, really good eye.
This is my type. Simplicity, clean, but elegant. One of my favorite in youtube. Some have too much decoration.
That was great to watch, thanks for the share Paul and I look forward to watching your content every single day 🙂
Thank You for showing us this.. Namaste
Great tour! Thank you for sharing.
Great room. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for the illuminating tour.
Very cool, Paul! Thanks for sharing!!
Big thanksfor sharing your amazing system with us.
Very nice Paul! That’s what I call a realistic approach to home theater and that’s what it all about. Simple, quality, and comfort. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Paul. This is great inspiration for me as I'm currently designing my own...and in a similar sized room.
Finally we get to see it ! Looks nice !
Wow Paul, this should be in my bucket list! Love it!
Outstanding set-up...Thanks for posting.
Very nice sir. Thanks for letting us have a look.
Thank you for showing us a personal space in your home.
Very well done Sir...!
Yes Paul it is a JVC lol, I can tell by the lense...Very cool setup, we have been waiting a long time. Thanks 🙏
What a great home theater. I love the hidden speakers and the equipment room. Really professional set up resulting in a really comfy but high performance theater.
The P10 Power Plant has certainly brought a more natural timbre and faster transients to the kernels popping in our machine. Hulls are now wedging much deeper into gums and with greater authority. Even the AVR remote buttons feel buttery smooth after 100 hours
That's thanks to the added harmonics of the P10 and the amplification of other harmonics from your mains. Woot woot!!
amazing, just shows you can have windows in a theater room! thanks for showing!
Wow, thanks so much for doing this! Someday if I am ever able to do a home theater I will look into the acoustically transparent screen. Thanks again I really do enjoy the videos and have learned much, much much!
Awesome video, thanks for sharing.
NICE HOME THANKS FOR SHOWING, GOD BLESS
Nice to see The Life Aquatic in your collection!
Totally agree on the speaker placement (behind the screen) it makes more sense to have it this way.
Very nice!!
Impressive, Paul! Wow...
Very Nice..... Thanks for shairing
Wow this is a setup to dream about. I hope I have one like this one day.
Very nice Paul, thanks for sharing.
Small but incredible! Great job!
That's nice, beautiful and simple!
That’s a nice looking home theatre there man loving the Emotiva amps I’ve just bought an XPA GEN3 5 channel variant and it’s definitely made a difference to my setup
Gorgeous set up!
Thanks for sharing your setup.
Very nice functional set up.
Love the pictures. The sculpture is exceptional indeed! I’m glad to see that you and your family are enjoying the fruits of your labor.
Personally I was lucky enough to make it to Heinz Hall this evening and see the Pittsburgh Symphony perform. Exhilarating performance btw.
As an amateur photographer I must say your photos are top notch! I shoot mostly in black and white but I love the landscapes you have captured! Very very nice. Your home theatre is just what I would do. Very strait forward and functional, thank you for the tour!
very cool! great post, Paul! hopefully I can get a room like this myself someday :)
“Some crap speakers, I don’t remember which”, followed by “I’m an audio guy”. 😂😂 Love ya Paul. You also convinced me to trust Emotiva amps.
I am the owner of Custom Quality Theaters in Boulder, CO. I designed and built Paul's home theater from start to finish.
I'm not sure why Paul chose to not acknowledge me and my company in this video. Very disappointing.
Anyway, I will try to clarify some details and questions.
The correct nomenclature for Paul's theater is a 7.1.4. Front LCR behind the screen, left and right side surrounds, & left and right rear surrounds (7). One subwoofer (1), and four in-ceiling Atmos (4). Side surrounds are Sunfire Cinema Ribbon CRM-2BIP dipoles.
Two rear speakers are not "crap", they are Golden Ear Invisa 650's. Ceiling Atmos speakers (4) are Golden Ear Invisa HTR 7000's, each one in a custom enclosure.
Other points/ questions answered:
Projector is a JVC DLA-700 4K capable projector. It is not a "true 4K' but uses JVC's eShift technology to double the frame rate. JVC has consistently tied or ranked ahead of "true 4K" projectors because of superior contrast ratios and black levels.
Room was originally designed for maximum audio and video, including darker walls that are now too light for best video/ contrast balance. Front side walls and ceiling are black velvet to minimize image reflection/ washout.
Zoltar808: Yes there is a seal on the doors to maximize air pressure, but unfortunately the doors are often left open, which also destroys the right surround channel quality. Rear small door was also designed to seal tight but is also often not closed.
Projector box is hermetically sealed, has intake in the adjacent hallway, outtake above front of projector, with 6" dia. pipe going to nearby mechanical room, and 1650 cfm exhaust fan activated at 90 degrees F.
I'm not a fan of popcorn makers in theaters, especially when they block off one side of a side surround channel and also introduce a large area of highly reflective glass. I know of other theater designer/ builders or installers who get frustrated about designing a theater for maximum performance and then have changes made later that negatively affect the performance. Of course, once it's done the owners can do whatever they like with the finished theater.
You can see a more complete review and pictures of the theater at my Houzz site:
www.houzz.com/projects/1197701/boulder-atmos-theater
Sorry, Robert, didn't mean a snub. Folks just wanted to see what our theater looked like. You did a great job designing and building our theater.
Nice work. Enjoyed the additional photos via your link.
Wow! What a great home theater you have Paul. 👍👌
Thanks. It's fun and cozy.
Thanks for sharing! I'm looking forward to hopefully meeting you at Axpona.
Paul is down to earth , Glad he is who he pretends to be . Me I think this is a very well thought out ,comfortable ,relaxing room . That family can really lay back and and enjoy . Nope we don't always need the giant ,multi million dollar rooms to entertain us . We can go to the theater for that if we want . Nice Paul , thanks for sharing .
Love everything but the projector housing unit. The sound panels are very sharp looking. Great work!
Cool. It looks nice. Simple and clean.
Very nice Paul
Awesome 🥰
Very impressive.
Brilliant! A giant bean bag chair or two is exactly what I need to add to my home theater! Thank you! Right now I just have one really nice powered recliner/zero gravity chair and I really didn't want to buy another one.
I particularly love the sculpture, it's like a modern buddha :)
I remember having the "THX" button on my surround receiver. Apparently it softened the treble of the center speaker because movie soundtracks would turn up the highs to account for the loss that would occur when using transparent screens in cinemas. I think that was back in 1996... I completely geeked out back then.
Very very pretty, I love your home, the pictures were very cool too, and the home cinema is very... as you may say...feet flat on the earth? I mean, it is at reach of a lot of middle class people, not outrageously expensive. The details of the installation are peerless, the tidyness in the back of the electronics, the soundproof casing of the projector, the acoustically transparent screen, you have class, money isn't everything. I like it all!!!
Not outrageously expensive??? I'm not sure most would agree with that assessment. The electronics he has in this room is probably worth more than most people's car. I mean, most people wouldn't spend $1,000 on speakers, let alone (I'm going to guess about) $20k+ on a home theater.
Very cool. Goals
I love the screen and the fact that the entire front is black velvet!
Hi Paul, just from your talking you can hear the DN60 timing of the room. Nice timing, nice life.
Nice clean setup, Paul.
We briefly entertained the home theater concept for the new basement media room.
Jim Smith's book (Get better sound ) helped us realize that in the long run they end up unused. Besides we tend to turn down the volume in action scenes. ..... (!)
So a second two channel music setup with room treatments it became.
This week my wife looked around the room while listening to " HMS Pinafore" (Linn) and concluded we didn't need a tv in the room at all.
Music wins!
This room is used every day for a couple of hours :-)
+Carlito Melon You are a man after my own heart, but some people really do like to watch movies, a lot, especially kids, I think. I prefer listening to good music myself.
bery nice set up you have there paul
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing
Very nice home theater Paul!
That is how you do the screen right! Finally - someone did it right. NICE
I'm not big on theater seats as well. Got 3 couches in my HT and my family likes to lay down on there and just get comfy and not be situated in one position.
Nice! I have all sunfires from my good Friend Bob Carver and there all CRS - 3c's YES I used the center for all 5 channels and love it. I use the Sunfire EQ12 subs as well with the Epson Projector
Love the Pop Corn Machine !
Very nice, hadn't heard of acoustically transparent screens, makes sense to have the speakers behind
J DeKong All commercial theaters has LCR and subs behind the screen.
Very nice!
Wow, I'm impressed with the photography 👍 and we share a similar home AV theatre 😎
Very nice. Loving the photos. You should check into museum glass for your frames. Less reflective and makes the art pop more.
Thanks for sharing.
thanks for the tour! if i had this i might never leave the house!
Jason Isip You will leave the house, to buy more popcorn and movies lol 😄
Retro Force that’s what my teen kids are for! hahaha
Wait,..you 'Stream' your movies????????????
I totally agree about the sound needs to come from the screen. Your solution works but there are other ways too. I use a Yamaha processor and it has a system that splits the voice between the centre and present speakers. The voice can be adjusted in hight to match the projector screen. It enables you to lock the voice to the picture left right and center. I don't know of any other processors do the same.
S Gals. In your system OK. In mine l often watch poor quality sound. 2 channel or 5.1. I don't even have Atmos. But the sound is locked to the center, and slightly left and right of the screen when needed. The only way to do this corectly without the present speakers is 3 speaker's behind the screen or 2 center speakers above and below the screen. Once you hear it there is no going back
Ooh. Sunfire. I remember when they released their subwoofers. So much power and low frequency in such a small box.
enjoy your movies !!!
Very cool!
I went the same way on the seating. Originally I had 4 theater seats and quickly realized that it was way more comfy for parties, football and movies to have a few couches. Nothing like having a party and everyone looking at those 4 seats and waiting for someone to get up lol.
That setup is what is almost exactly like my dream setup.
Acoustically transparent screen is a very elegant solution for a correct audiovisual display and it looks very sleek.
It's very pricey though.
HI Paul! Impressive Theater! Can i check what brand of balanced Interconnects your using?
Nice theater. How do you keep the rack and the projector cool? Do you have an A/C duct feeding the area?
Good question?! 😶
Finally, someone else that uses laid-back family seating!
Yeah, couch is way to go, not theatre seating. Why take the worst thing from a movie theatre and bring it home. If I could, I'd take my couch to the movie theatre instead.
+Charles Ludwig I don't go to the theater much, but I believe some have fully reclining seats and leg rests now.
Or a big overstuffed recliner
no no no.... big comfy power recliner. two arm rests, cup holder, snack tray to place your pizza.
sooo versatile. its the only way to go. a sofa has zero options & only one position. ..pass
Very nice 👍 👍
nice and we share your distaste for seating in the theater, we like the places that have recliners when were out ( Regal Cinema around here )
nice setup :)
I'm surprised to see the Emotiva amps rather than a stack of Stellar or some BHKs.
that's a nice setup.
i just have a 55" insignia TV and a pioneer VSX 515 receiver, a mixed bag of speakers..... two polk T15 bookshelf speakers hanging on the wall in the front of the room, and 2 klipsch satilite speakers in the rear, a klipsch center speaker, and a klipsch subwoofer. im going to buy one more T15 set and a T30 polks so they at least match.
i bought the reciever about 15 years ago but it still performs well. its a 6 channel.
Thats a cozy family room good job and a nice amp setup too!
Its just that when you begin with sound transparent screen I thought the man knows his stuff.
But then you hook up trashy surround speakers with decent electronics, you call the projector 4k and its not,
you put glass in front of your JVC, not a word about speakers or sub configuration.
Streaming 4k? Cmon that jvc even though it’s not 4k and shooting through a glass it
deserves no compression at all.
Maybe at some point we end up doing what we want, not what we should :-D
While I agree with you, this is his setup, and all that matters is whether he's happy with it, and I suspect he probably is, at least for the most part.
Great theater I want that projector hush box!! I think the only thing missing to take this theater to the next level would be some sort of aspect ratio masking?
Love to See this Video Finaly.
Bin im a Little undewhelmed, Not that it’s Not a gorgeous Home Cinema, but i expactet some more high end of a paul McGowan 😅
It always amazes me when I read responses like this. It reminds me of when 'friends' come by my home to see one of my collections, home , cars and although they haven't accumulated ANY wealth in their lives due to poor decisions, they find something to criticize .....unbelievable...
Just because someone can afford a Ferrari doesn't mean they can't just drive an old Ford truck-if that is what they like....
+Tim von R I don't think he charges admission or concession fees.