What are the ideal dimensions for my home theater, and what is the ideal screen size?
The size of a home theater is dependent upon the number of people that you wish to seat. Because it is important to preserve proper sight lines, it is crucial to make sure that seating is arranged to allow everyone an unobstructed view. To seat a lot of people, the room needs to be deeper, wider and/or have multiple levels (risers). Because the size of the screen depends on viewing distances, it is important to size the screen according to the first row. Pay attention to this acoustic formula: Your room’s width, height and depth should never be even multiples, or each other. Example: A 10-by-20-by-8-foot room would not be a good choice. How do we make sure that the sound from our theater stays in that space? Proper design/construction of your theater and some basic common sense will go a long way towards keeping the sound in the room. Holes, gaps, spaces, cracks all allow sound to escape the room. Just having a good, solid core door, with minimal clearance between the bottom of the doo
