Mr. Ashok Yerneni-Home Theater
Type: High-End Home Theater
Location: After the Rain - Total Environment, Yelahanka
Scope of Work: Home theater Acoustics Design and Consulting, Home theater Audio Visual System Supply & Installation
Application: Movies & music played via OTT platforms
Room Size: 25’2” length x 16’9” wide x 9’ height
Interior Scheme: Contemporary
Status: Completed- June 2023
Mr. Ashok Yerneni, a returning NRI, desired a luxury home theatre in his basement with top range audio-visual equipment and comfy seating to accommodate long viewing sessions. Mr. Ashok wanted the home theatre interiors to recreate a cinema experience complete with airtight soundproofing and an audio system capable of creating immersive soundscapes. Our Symphony 440 Design Group Home Cinema Architects and Technicians revamped the basement’s interiors to optimize acoustics and installed the audio-visual equipment required for a Professional cinema-grade viewing experience.
To deliver a luxury home theatre designed for comfort and entertainment, complete with attractive & sound-friendly home theatre interiors, optimized subwoofer placement with fine-tuned bass frequencies, and a high-fidelity audio-visual system for an incredibly immersive Dolby Atmos Experience. All delivered after coordinating closely with Mr. Ashok for aesthetics and technicalities.
Acoustic Interiors
- As the first step in creating the home theatre interiors, we put in laminated wooden flooring to help maximize convenience, reduce extreme hard reflections from the concrete flooring. The flooring also imparted an auditorium-like feel to the home theatre and made for a smooth finish.
- Next, we moved on to the ceiling. Since it had three level differences (16’ towards the front, 10’ at the center, 9’ towards the back), we decided to put in a false ceiling with tapering highs and lows in line with the ceiling’s level. This allowed us to maximize the usable height while leaving the ceiling’s beam concealed. We also installed ambient profile lighting to enhance the tapering and make it easy on the eye. The false ceiling was Acoustically treated internally to maximize absorption and finished out with fabric.
- To straighten out ceiling levels even further, we had two cassette AC units installed at the centre. This also helped with ventilation and maintaining temperature.
- A 7” thick column ran up vertically next to the entry door, with an exact ceiling height of 7’10”. This presented a structural anomaly that could have affected audio quality. We planned the interiors to conceal these structural differences and ensure clean levels.
- The last leg of the home theatre interiors involved home theatre wall design. We made a partition wall 2’ from the front concrete wall and finished it out seamlessly with fabric. Next, we ran a band of fabric panels over the left and right walls, from the floor to the ceiling. These panels were 8” in thickness and covered the protruding column at the front of the room. The panelling at the back continued all the way over to the rear wall. These rear panels were made a little thinner (4.5” thick), as per our calculations to balance out the amount of sound absorbed versus sound reflected.
- To finish up the home theatre wall design, we put in hexagonal panels at the centers of the left and right-hand walls to enhance the overall symmetry of the room. The patterns of the panelling were accentuated by installing profile and cove lights in between.
Audio-Video
We began by mounting the fabric-finished front wall with a 150” Diagonal Acoustically Transparent screen.
All the major audio-visual equipment was placed behind the screen on the front wall. Two Klipsch RP 8000F speakers were placed on the left and right, and a Klipsch RP 504C II speaker was placed at the centre behind the screen. We calculated the alignment and height at which these speakers should be placed as per human anthropometry, to ensure a full and harmonious listening experience.
For surround sound and a 360-degree listening experience, we used four Klipsch RP 500 SA speakers. Two of these were all wall-mounted to the left and right of the recliners. Two more were mounted on the wall behind the recliners. This speaker placement enabled more dynamic acoustics, by capturing the movements of sound and replicating this within the home theatre.
We rounded off the primary audio equipment with ceiling atmos speakers to give an extra dimension of height to the listening experience. To achieve this we installed two Klipsch Pro 16RC flushed in level with the false ceiling.
To flush the audio with strong bass, we placed two SVS PB-2000 SUB subwoofers behind the screen, in front of the recliners. Deciding on the placement of the Home Theater subwoofers was a major challenge for the Our AV Consultancy team since it can be tricky to get that perfect bass. However, after conducting rigorous analysis and fine-tuning, we were able to bring out a deep and thumping bass sound.
For seating in the home theatre, we arranged a total of 8 electric recliners in two rows of 4 seats each. With the second row placed on an in-built raised platform of 7” height for optimal viewing. Mr. Ashok wanted the home theatre’s audio to be tuned to the central recliner (the money seat), which we accommodated by measuring out sound angles. We also put in a Butt-Kicker as a special request from Mr. Ashok – this was installed under the money seat to give a tactile feel to the bass by making the seat shake according to the sounds being played!
Finally, the AV rack with amplifiers – the heart of the home theater’s AV system, was placed in a back corner of the room. The amplifiers used were – a Marantz MM 7055 and a Denon 3800H. For viewing, we installed a Sony XW 5000ES native 4K projector.
Interior Design
The Symphony 440 team completely transformed Mr. Ashok Yernerni’s basement and turned it into an entertainment hub capable of delivering an immersive audio-visual experience, where Mr. Ashok and his family could watch their favorite movies and shows, play audio with a rich bass and full surround sound, and unwind for hours on end.
Our client-centric approach to home theatre design paid off as we were able to work closely with Mr. Ashok to scope out his requirements, customize interiors and fine-tune audio levels to meet his expectations, and deliver a premium home theatre project. We were also able to overcome the challenges posed by the interiors of the basement without causing delays or compromising on quality.