Home Theater
I’ve been planning a home theater system for the media room (aka The Bonus Room) for quite some time, and I now have almost all of the components I have planned for:
- Denon AVR-2105 receiver (Pictures: Back Front)
- Philips DVP-642 DVD/Divx/MPEG/MP3/pretty much anything that will fit on a DVD-R or CD-R player
- InFocus 4805 DLP projector
- 4 Cerwin Vega V-5M bookshelf speakers
- 2 Cerwin Vega V-15F 3-way floor standing speakers
- 1 Cerwin Vega V-5C center channel speaker
- 1 Cerwin Vega V-12S 12″ powered subwoofer
The speakers are on backorder and haven’t actually arrived yet, and we don’t have a ceiling mount or screen for the projector, just a blank white wall and a card table. Has that stopped us from enjoying it? Of course not.
The original plan was to purchase everything at once, paint the room, buy furniture, and have everything set up before we started actually using it. But, a deal for the projector came along on Woot! that I couldn’t resist, and as soon as it arrived we wanted to “try it out.” That put a bit of a kink in our plans of “doing it right.”
The projector, DVD player, and crappy speakers hijacked from my wife’s computer are all sitting on a table in the back of the room, wires all tangled up and surge protector suspended between the table and wall. Not the elegant setup I was hoping for, but it’s good enough to watch old episodes of Smallville.
Oh, yea, one more thing. “Light control” quickly became an issue, and instead of buying/making curtains, we tacked bath towels on the wall to cover the windows. Pathetic, I know. I’d provide pictures, but I’m pretty sure my wife would have a heart attack (Disclaimer: my wife had nothing to do with the towels. It was all ubu’s idea).

