>>I can't speak for others, but having a specific room, separate from, but attached to, the house, is just flat out the best
Amen to that. I was over at my brother and sister-in-law's place for dinner tonight -- they're the ones with my PSB sub. There was some discussion about setting up the home theater somewhere outside the house, along with a few gentle suggestions from my sister-in-law that I could take my sub back any time and *now* would be a very good time. I begged out, claiming there was not enough room in the Jeep to carry the sub back.
My brother-in-law, on the other hand, thinks the rec room (right under the master bedroom) is a mighty fine place for a home theater and is starting to ask about 7.1