High-Performance Media Room

Chapin, SC

The owner had already chosen and bought the equipment, and brought us in to pull it together into a room that performed. Starting over was never the brief — the job was to get everything out of what was already there. We reconfigured the seating around his existing couches, replaced the 82-inch panel with a 98-inch TCL QM8L, and repositioned every speaker for the room and the seats. Two matching in-wall side surrounds went in, and every surround and Atmos run was routed through the walls and ceiling for a clean finish. We added a second subwoofer, and planned and installed the acoustic treatment: the red panels, the ceiling clouds, and four black panels in the front corners that are easy to miss against the stick-on foam, which was already in place and is the owner's own. The system was then set up and calibrated with Dirac Live Active Room Treatment. The result is a high-performance media room built almost entirely from equipment that was already in the house.