Just wondering how many of you have sound proofed your theatre room/listening room/living room and how happy you are with it?

If you didn't, I am also wondering if the bass comes though the ceiling at all (if you're in the basement) and if it is noticably disturbing above.

Also, if you used Resillient channeling on your ceiling (from Home Depot, RC-2) please pipe in as I am exploring this option.

EDIT: I added "Listening Room" in case you don't have a dedicated theatre room. Your welcome Ken.

Where's the "I don't have a home theatre, you insensitive clod," option?

haha.

I'll keep you in mind next time

No dedicated HT room and it is in the basement. LFE only thing heard/felt in the top floor and it comes up through the heating vents more than anything else, not a real issue, the kids can still sleep and I can still watch my movies almost as loud as I want, my wife keeps me in check.

I only did minor sound proofing by adding batting inbetween studs and trusses (in the ceiling). No double sheetrock, or channeling, or Green Glue, or stagered studs, etc...

Maybe in the next house.

It does help that the room is a bit more isolated. it is in our basement with 3 of the walls being outside, underground, walls. So the only significant sound loss is through the ceiling and front wall that is not an outside wall. I know, I am loosing sound elsehwere as well, but those are the most noticeable.

And yes, I can still hear (and feel) my sub upstairs during a really intense scene.

My room has 9' coved ceilings, hardwood floors, a very large picture window, and an arched opening to another room. The wife will not allow too large of a rug on the floors so I've had to do some careful sound suppression work. The rug I picked is nice and thick, I had my wife buy new curtains for the room (which she was more than willing to do) as long as they were very thick (she bought 2 thin sets and sandwiched a very thick but ugly set in between) and did some corner treatments as well as having mostly stuffed upholstered furniture bar the leather couch. The corner treatments were re-covered by my wife to match the room.

It just dawned on me that I misunderstood the meaning of the question, but since I already voted.....

...naw...my room is not soundproofed, but once a year it gets better! When the "stockings were hung by the chimney with care...." The room gets tamed and the tunes sound a lot better!!

Stockings hung on the fireplace, along with an extra large wreath above the mantle really help, as do the Christmas trees next to the fireplace and in the bay window. And the yards of garland strung around helps too!

My M50s really like Christmas...they really do!

In the process of building a house now and did line the walls and ceiling with Roxull (the green stuff). However due to the forced air furnace, ducting and cold air returns, I believe the insulation will do more to keep the room warm then to sound proof. I think a better term is sound deadening.

BTW, those of us who own an EP500 or 600 might just as well build a structure in the back yard if you don't want to hear bass in the house. And even then...

Yes....

6" walls with sound batts.
5/8" sound board and 5/8" rock. Acoustical sealant at the ceiling/corners under the tape for vibrations. Insulated duct work with no straight runs spanning between rooms.

Was it worth it? Hell if I know. Them damn LFE's go wherever they want and I don't think it's possible to stop them without going exotic. but, when the door is open, big time difference throughout the house, so my effects do keep the High freq's contained.

Like Nick, I did some insulation between the ceiling raftors using the fluffy paper backed material which claimed to be sound rated. Our entire basement is an ICEBlock foundation, which includes foam in the inside and outside, with 8" of concrete poured in the middle of the rebar voids. Much better in many ways to just standard poured foundations.

As John mentioned, some noise gets upstairs, but I still am able to watch movies at a somewhat loud level and the kids don't complain, right above the HT room.

Not a lot is going to contain EpiCenter LFE from EP500's or 600's.

I've set up my home theater in an old room that was added to the house and there's really no sound proofing done at all. Last summer my parents came to visit and I was demonstrating my home theater to some friends and I put on The Lord of the Rings full blast just to show them how loud it could play (pants-dropping bass that's for sure! ). Anyway my dad went outside the house and stood right in front of the outside wall where that room is located and he barely could hear some thumping, nothing major; I had to check myself and I couldn't believe how quiet it was.
It's a little louder inside the house but definitely not bothersome. All in all I'm very satisfied with the results considering I didn't do anything to the room!

Thanks for all the replies all. I figure right now its just me and my wife in the house (and for another 5 years at least) so the there is really no point in sound proofing as she will be in the theatre when I will be pretty much all the time (with the exception of video games).

I have decided to just screw the drywall right against the joists. Can't wait until Jan! I have already stuffed the joists with Roxul safe n' sound insulation which should provide about 4 STC.