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San Diego home theater installation

GotUWired proudly places itself as having San Diego home theater installation professional teamwork. We will help you plan and design your own home theater system, choosing from a large number of distinguished brands, till you get your well-designed easy to use customized home theater.

Wherever your San Diego home theater installation will be, GotUWired will skillfully mix creativity, innovation and simplicity to get you the home theater system you always dreamt of. Whether you want to install your home theater system in a bedroom, a family room, or even a wide hall, we promise you that you will experience new lively sounds and sights that best entertain you. You will know that passing your vacation at home has become far more enjoyable than before.

Once you decide on installing a home theater system, you will need to choose from three main categories of video, audio and Control System equipments. Our staff will help you make your mind about which receivers, projectors, speakers, and controllers to use. Many people find it difficult to decide whether to use a plasma TV, LCD, or HD TV, we will let you choose from the well-known brands that best suit your design and configuration. But choosing the sets is only a part of the installation process, as there are still other important points to be taken into your consideration. For example, where the video screen is located in the room you selected? How the speakers are distributed throughout the whole place? And how to control all the system after it had been installed? Our professional staff will save no effort to let you set all these factors right, and you will be confident about every step you take through the installation process.

Because we take care of every little single detail, GotUWired is the best San Diego home theater installation service provider. We pay high attention to your individual taste and lifestyle so that we can turn your exact dream into a vivid reality. When we design your home theater system, we make it to be integrated in harmony with the structure of your home. Even when we finish the installation process, we do not leave you until you use the home theater installed system, try every feature of it, and be more than satisfied.

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What is the first step in installing a home theater?

What is the first step in installing a home theater? I plan on including:

Seat risers
Projector
motorized projection screen
theater lighting
Surround Sound
media closet
Acoustics for sound (not sound proofing).

Put them in order if you can. Thanks
Wow, you 2 guys gave me a lot of information and even more things to think about (not be sarcastic). Thank you so much.

Based on just your list, assuming you've already wired, the order doesn't make a lot of different. Here's a couple things to consider first, that aren't on your list:

Since you have a dedicated room to work with, you have some considerations before fixing your final design. The difference between a good theater and an amazing theater is 50% room and 50% equipment.

Decisions to make:

1. Sound proofing. If the room is big enough you can build a room within your room by staggering new studwalls, floor and ceiling and placing special material between the walls. Floors are suspended much like motor mounts in a car.

2. Splaying the side walls. If you build an inner-room you should make the side walls unparallel. A 20 foot deep room should be two feet wider at the back as a minimum.

3. Breaking up the ceiling. Whether you build an inner room or not, you should change the shape of the ceiling from flat to? I like to build a lattice framework that looks like the swells of a wave from below, and then have it drywalled, but there are endless possibilities here. My curved ceiling hangs from the actual ceiling and doesn't extend to the walls in any direction. This allows for stunning lighting designs.

4. Raised seating. If you are planning rows, you will want to pick your seat now so the proper wires can be installed for hardwire control from Crestron, AMX, etc... Best choice is to have your eyes even with the center of the screen vertically and horizontally. If you're married, you might want to split the difference and share the best seating position.

5. Before any construction begins, equipment should be chosen so the correct wiring cna be installed in the walls. I would not use 16/2 or 16/4 in a dedicated theater. That's surround family room wire. I would recommend 12 or 14 gauge non oxydizing high strand count Speaker Wire.

6. The most important components in any system are the speakers, the display and the Remote Control. Those are the items that we interface with and hence will show the best return for dollar spent. The rack full of boxes is far more forgiving than mediocre interface devices!

7. Projectors and screens are available now that will adjust to the full width of a 2.35:1 motion picture and the films can be displayed at 24 fps, just like at the theater. This is a substantial improvement over standard 16:9 fixed with 30 fps limitation. Several companies are making projectors like this now. I like Runco, Vidicron and JVC with anamorphic lenses.

8. Speakers can be hidden behind a faux front wall, even if you don't build an inner room. Side and rear speakers can be hidden in architectural detail walls. Picking speakers is far more complex than I can write about here.

9. Controlling a theater can be a nightmare or a breeze. It all depends on the control system and the programmer. Today, I would choose between Crestron, AMX or LifeWare. There are less costly, lower performance options such as RTI, Pronto, Nevo which work pretty well.

10. Separate processors and amplifiers are great but I've had good luck with high end receivers from Yamaha, Marantz and PioneerElite also, and they cost less money. Depending on the rest of your theater, you might even be able to use Marantz's lower end line, Denon.

11. Cables don't have to be the very best, but don't buy the bargain basement stuff either. I use Ethereal for lower cost installations and Tributaries in nicer rooms.

12. Regardless of the theater you design, hire a professional for room accoustics, sound calibration and display calibration to SMPTE standards. An ISF certified tech is adequate for display, HAA certifed tech is okay and afforable for accoustics and a THX level 2 tech will be qualified to calibrate the audio. NOTE: Room accoustics costs the most, and is the most valuable!

Hope this is some help. Good luck and have fun with your project!

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