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Mojo I’m not shocked in the least you tried stacking your 500/600. !!!

Thanks everyone for your chatter here on this topic. It’s helpful.

We are moving into a new house soon and I’m speculating on future places in the house to try out for systems. Which is why I asked about ceiling heights. We will have one large open room which is a “great room “ with 12 foot ceilings that drops to nine feet into the kitchen and dining room. About 1100 square feet in all. ( still need to measure accurately ).

And then we have an unfinished basement with 7 foot ceilings. 1200 sq feet. All concrete floors and walls with 2 inch rigid styrofoam insulation bolted to the concrete all the way around. Thinking about a home theatre down there?

There’s going to be many options to try. It will take time to have $$$ to upgrade and build up systems but the house has many interesting spaces to utilize.

Anyway we don’t move until March and nothing will happen quick but wanted to share my stoke for new spaces to build up systems and start to learn about how ceiling heights effect the outcome.

I knew you were going to say that

If using a projector, height matters. If you need/want a second or third row, heigh matters. Ceiling speaker placement can be a bit more forgiving if you have the additional height to play with (geometry). My HT has about 8.5' ceiling height. 9' would have been better. 10' better yet. 11', too much height......

Perhaps, but I needed extra room to raise the floor. It’s actually a platform in the room. Also the top speakers are mounted below the ceiling (M3ow’s on FMBs). Guess I wasn’t giving you the whole story .... plus I was inconsistent with the meaning of the numbers I gave since the 8’ 10” includes the floor.

Our HT room dimensions are:
13.5 w x 16 L x 7 H

The tv and primary speakers are setup on the short axis so from our chairs, the left to right distance is 16' and thus our distance to the tv looking straight ahead is about 11'. This is not a rectangle though. We have one angled wall on the left side, the ceiling angles down behind the couches, and on the right side we have a bulk header block all of which breaks up the room.
It is one i have yet to measure, but i think i'll probably do it relatively soon. Trevor passed on some info about apps for phones and at least it gives something to use for a test, even if not overly accurate compared to using REQ and a proper mic.

Once the last of changes are made i'll repost pics of the latest media room. The ones i had posted years ago seem to no longer be up in the gallery.

Indeed.
One of the reasons we decided to not continue forward with a plan to put in a projector in the room. It would sit too low with the ceiling height and with noise and heat, plus a limited screen size of 80" maybe, it made sense to wait for cheaper large screen tvs to evolve.
Now they have.
And 4k on this LG OLED is damn impressive.
I could post pics but the pics wouldn't do it justice.

Audiotools is accurate. Mic capsule is compensated for (ipad/iphone mics are supported -no other manufacturers.). External mics work as well but you must use a mic preamp interface.

I don't believe that is a free app though correct?
REW is, but i have nothing to run it on (not a laptop house).

No. Think its 20$ and plugin modules on top of that are extra.

Charles, I'm going with dual, stacked EP1600s up front. You'll see.