Like most companies exhibiting at CES, LG keeps its news under pretty tight wraps until the show. However, the company decided to let one cat out of the bag a bit early—it will introduce a new line of LED-LCD TVs dubbed “Super UHD” at CES 2016. The line includes three models—the UH7700 (with sizes from 49 to 65 inches), UH8500 (55 to 75 inches), and UH9500 (55 to 85 inches, pictured above). I don’t yet know if these are FALD (full-array local dimming) or edgelit.

The new sets will feature advanced IPS (in-plane switching) LCD panels for wide viewing angles with True Black Panel, a proprietary technology that minimizes reflections and enhances the contrast ratio. Another feature called Contrast Maximizer “delivers more depth and contrast by separating objects from their backgrounds.” I don’t yet know what that means, but I intend to find out at the show.

Among the other notable features of the new Super UHD TVs is LG’s HDR Plus suite of technologies, which is said to “heighten HDR performance compared to sets that are only HDR compatible,” whatever that means. The suite includes a feature called Ultra Luminance, which boosts peak brightness while improving black-level performance, and Color Prime, about which there is no direct info in the press release. Also, an SDR-to-HDR conversion engine allows the new sets to display SDR content with “near-HDR” characteristics. Finally, a feature called Billion Rich Colors refers to the ability to render over one billion color variations.

The UH8500 and UH9500 lines up the ante with Color Prime Plus, which uses new, thicker color filters and new LCD phosphors to achieve about 90% of the DCI/P3 color gamut. Both lines also provide 10-bit panels with processing; the press release says nothing about the UH7700 in this regard, which leads me to surmise it has an 8-bit panel. However, it also has the Billion Rich Colors features, which I assume requires a 10-bit panel and processing, since an 8-bit panel can render “only” 16,777,215 million colors, while 10 bits can represent 1,073,741,824 distinct shades.

Also slated to be unveiled is the UH9800, a 98-inch behemoth with 8K resolution. Talk about Super UHD!

All Super UHD TVs will include LG’s latest generation webOS 3.0 Smart TV platform with advanced features to make finding and switching between content options simple and fast. The new webOS 3.0 offers enhanced mobile connectivity and more content options, including streaming HDR content.

As usual, no pricing has yet been announced, but the press release says that select models will begin shipping in the US in early Spring.

Stay tuned to AVS Forum for all the latest news from CES 2016!

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The UHD Alliance, an industry consortium of content creators, distributors, and hardware manufacturers, laid the foundation for much of what I’ll be covering at CES 2016 during its press conference Monday night. After two years of uncertainty about everything except pixel resolution, the Alliance announced its Ultra HD Premium specification, which defines resolution, bit depth, color gamut, and high dynamic range (HDR) required for UHD content and displays to carry the Ultra HD Premium logo (seen above).

Of course, resolution is well-defined already—3840×2160—but now, other aspects of UHD are more clearly defined. To be deemed Ultra HD Premium, content and distribution must have a minimum bit depth of 10 bits, while displays must accept a 10-bit signal. (Interestingly, the info we got at the press conference does not say that the display device must have a 10-bit panel, and subsequent discussions were unclear on this point. For example, it’s possible for a display with an 8-bit panel to accept a 10-bit signal and dither it to 8 bits.)

The specified color gamut is BT.2020, though this is more of a “container,” since few if any consumer displays can actually render BT.2020 primaries. To wear the Ultra HD Premium logo, a display must be able to render at least 90% of the DCI/P3 gamut and map the incoming signal primaries to its particular capabilities.

As for HDR itself, the specified EOTF (electro-optical transfer function) is SMPTE ST 2084, otherwise known as PQ (Perceptual Quantizer). Mastering displays are recommended to exceed 1000 nits of peak brightness with a black level less than 0.03 nits. However, there are two specs for consumer displays: more than 1000 nits of peak brightness and less than 0.05 nits black level OR more than 540 nits of peak brightness and less than 0.0005 nits black level. Why two specs for peak brightness and black level? This was not discussed in the press conference, but it seems obvious that the two sets of specs are intended to apply to LED-LCD and OLED TVs, respectively.

To be certified as Ultra HD Premium, a piece of content or display must pass a series of tests conducted by independent testing centers; among the first of these is BluFocus in Los Angeles, which has offered testing and certification services for DVDs, Blu-rays, and digital distribution for many years. Testing and licensing fees are included in a company’s membership in the UHD Alliance.

At the UHD Alliance press conference, a panel of representatives from four major studios discussed the importance of the new Ultra HD Premium program: (L-R) Ron Sanders, President of Worldwide Home Entertainment Distribution, Warner Bros. Entertainment; Mike Dunn, Worldwide President, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment; Man Jit Singh, President, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Michael Bonner, EVP of Digital Distribution, Universal Studios Home Entertainment. In this shot, you can see the names of some of the members of the UHD Alliance, representing content creators, distributors, technology companies, and display manufacturers.

The Ultra HD Premium spec is designed to set a high bar for content and displays, making them as future-proof as possible and providing a premium experience, and the logo is intended to make this clear to consumers. However, the UHD Alliance recognizes that we are in a period of transition, and there will continue to be a lot of content and many displays that do not meet these criteria; for example, there are now many UHD displays that do not recognize HDR signals at all, while others respond to HDR signals but do not meet the Premium specs. The UHD Alliance is discussing how to deal with this situation, which will evolve over the next year or two.

More than 12 consumer displays have already been certified as Ultra HD Premium, including all 2016 Samsung SUHD TVs, the Panasonic TX-65DX900 LED-LCD TV, and the LG Signature series of OLED TVs, all of which are being introduced at CES. These products, and others to follow, will display the Ultra HD Premium logo, which assures consumers that they conform to the specs established by the UHD Alliance and will provide an exceptional viewing experience.

This is a big step forward in the transition from HD to UHD, much more important than increased pixel resolution alone. In my view, adding the Ultra HD Premium specs to the equation finally makes this transition akin to the move from standard definition to HD more than a decade ago. If what I’m seeing at CES is any indication, the future of UHD is bright indeed.

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Just when I thought I wouldn’t see the Philips brand at CES any more, it showed up in a huge ballroom at the Renaissance hotel this week. As you may know, a Japanese company called Funai licensed the brand a couple of years ago, and it has re-emerged big time.

For 2016, the Philips brand includes three lines of 4K/UHD TVs, all of which are capable of high dynamic range (HDR) using the HDR10 open standard with HEVC and VC9 decoders. And all should be available by mid-year.

At the top of the heap is the 8600 series (pictured above), which includes 55″ and 65″ sizes for $1200 and $1700, respectively. These sets use FALD (full-array local-dimming) backlights with 32 zones—a very small number, which is understandable at these prices. More importantly, they exhibit a wide color gamut (82% of BT.2020) and implement Dolby Vision as well as HDR10.

The 7000 series features a razor-thin design in screen sizes of 49″ ($850), 55″ ($1000), and 60″ ($1400) and edgelighting.

The 6000 series includes screen sizes of 43″ ($750), 55″ ($900), and 65″ ($1400). The two smaller sizes use FALD backlighting with IPS panels, while the 65-incher uses edgelighting with a VA panel.

I was surprised to see a Philips Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the BDP7501. It conforms to the Blu-ray Disc Association’s specs for such a device and will carry a price tag of $400.

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Nanosys is one of the companies providing quantum-dot technology to display manufacturers, including Vizio and Hisense/Sharp, all of which use Nanosys’ QDEF film in some of their FALD LED-LCD TVs for 2016. In addition, Nanosys has licensed its technology to Samsung since 2010. (Interestingly, Samsung called this technology Nano Crystal in 2015, but at this year’s CES, it switched to the more common name of quantum dots.)

In the Nanosys suite at the Westgate hotel, I saw several impressive demos. Each of the vials in the photo above contain trillions of quantum dots, enough for hundreds of TVs. The vials are sitting on a diffuser panel above an array of blue LEDs; the vials are tuned to BT.2020 red and green.

In this photo, a QDEF film with red and green quantum dots covers half of the blue-LED panel; when blue light from the LEDs passes through the film, the result is white light.

The Nanosys rep had a super-cool portable light-spectrum analyzer. In this photo, you can see the spectrum of a white-LED flashlight; there’s a strong blue peak, while green and red are considerably spread out and much weaker.

Here you can see the spectrum read from the LED panel with the QDEF film in place. Notice how clean and separate the red, green, and blue peaks are; the blue peak is still stronger than red and green, but they are much stronger than in the spectrum of the flashlight.

According to the Nanosys rep, quantum-dot technology enables wide color gamut, increased brightness, and improved efficiency compared with conventional LED-LCD TVs. No wonder it was all over CES this year!

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LG’s new Super UHD LED-LCD TVs include several 4K sets and a 98″ 8K model.

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Riva Audio’s Turbo X portable Bluetooth speaker is a real knockout—look for a review soon—so I wanted to see if the company was showing anything new at CES, and indeed it was.

The Arena soundbar pictured above incorporates Riva’s Trillium technology that converts a 2-channel input into three channels with three separate drivers placed at angles to create a true stereo image beyond the confines of the enclosure. It includes three active drivers and two passive radiators on the front and four more passive radiators on the rear. Inputs include analog, optical and coax digital audio, and Bluetooth, and it provides a subwoofer output. It is targeted to carry a list price of $199 when it ships later this year, probably in the fall. The prototype seen here produced a big sound that belied its small size.

A new speaker line from Riva goes by the name WAND (Wireless Audio Network Device). Each unit has its own IP address and provides its own 802.11ac dual-band WiFi access point, which means you can take it outside the range of a WiFi network; in fact, the WAND system can support up to 32 devices in up to 12 zones (up to four devices per zone) with different sources per zone. They also support WiGig gigabit wireless, which allows high-res audio to be streamed to the speakers. An optional battery pack means you don’t need to be near an AC power outlet.

Riva was showing two WAND models at CES. The smaller 100 has three active drivers and three passive transducers, while the larger 300 has three active tweeters, three woofers, and four passive radiators; both implement Trillium. While each unit can reproduce a stereo signal using separate left and right drivers, two units can be configured as a true stereo pair with greater physical separation; Riva is working on a multichannel surround configuration, but that wasn’t ready to demo at CES.

The 300 also features a cabinet with a wood interior, and it definitely has the feel of quality construction with very little vibration. In the photo above, a glass of water sits on top of the 300, and there was barely a ripple in the water as the speaker played at a respectable volume. Supported sources include Airplay, Bluetooth, DLNA, Spotify Connect, and Google Cast as well as analog inputs; the 300 also provides an optical digital-audio input, and it can be integrated into a Sonos system with a Sonos Connect module.

Pricing has not yet been finalized; the target price for the 100 is $250, while the company hopes to price the 300 at $450 or $500. The optional battery pack should be $80 to $100. The WAND line should be shipping around the same time as the Arena soundbar.

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Optoma showed a prototype of an LED-illuminated projector based on the new Texas Instruments “faux-K” DLP DMD chip.

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Klipsch was demonstrating its new Reference Premier HD wireless, self-powered speaker system based on WiSA technology.

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Samsung introduced the UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player, which can be pre-ordered now.

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Samsung unveiled its second generation of SUHD LED-LCD TVs, now with quantum-dot backlights.

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Samsung had a ginormous 170″ SUHD TV in its booth, which consisted of many smaller panels stitched together with no intervening bezels.

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I chat with AVS Senior Writer Mark Henninger and member David Susilo about the new LG Signature OLED TVs, all of which have been granted Ultra HD Premium certification for high dynamic range and color gamut.

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In its CES both, Sony demonstrated a remarkable FALD (full-array local-dimming) backlight technology for LCD TVs called Backlight Master Drive, which greatly increases the number of independent dimming zones and supports a peak brightness of 4000 nits!

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Sony unveiled the next generation of its HDR-capable LED-LCD TVs.

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Journalists Chris Boylan (BigPictureBigSound.com), Tom Norton (SoundandVision.com), Robert Heron (HeronFidelity.com), and I discuss what we saw and heard at CES 2016, including the UHD Alliance’s Ultra HD Premium certification, HDR and quantum-dot LED-LCD displays that pervaded the show, LG’s new OLEDs and the amazing “cathedral of OLED” at the entrance to the company’s booth, Sony’s Backlight Master Drive tech demo, Ultra HD Blu-ray players, ELAC Uni-Fi B5 speakers, Emotiva Airmotiv speakers, B&O Beolab 90 speakers, Klipsch WiSA wireless speakers, turntables from Sony and Technics, answers to chat-room questions, and much more.

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With 1580 valid entries in the AVS/SVS Holiday Sweepstakes, the chances of winning by random drawing were—well, 1 in 1580. But someone had to win, and that someone is Derek Bond, who will be receiving an SVS Prime Satellite 5.1 speaker system.

“Wow, what a feeling! I have been a member of AVS Forum since 2005, and it has always been the best source for audio-video ideas and DIY projects. So when it was time to start my own theater, it was the only place I needed to look. This community welcomes the beginner as well as the audiophile. I have always especially appreciated the in-depth movie and product reviews.

“When I found out that I was the winner of the SVS Prime Satellite system, all I could do was smile in eager anticipation. The feeling was unimaginable. I immediately began to plan for a new 5.1 system in my bedroom theater. I can’t wait to get started. Thanks, AVS, for being the best!”

Thank you for the kind words, Derek, and congratulations on being the winner of the AVS/SVS Holiday Sweepstakes! You’re sure to enjoy your new SVS speakers for years to come.

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It’s difficult for me to believe that 2016 marks my 25th consecutive CES. Like the previous 24 shows I’ve attended, there was way too much for any one person to cover, even limiting that coverage to home audio and video news. So Mark Henninger and I split up—he concentrated on audio while I focused on video, though each of us managed to experience at least a bit of what the other’s coverage area offered this year in Las Vegas.

Now that the show is over, it’s time to summarize our favorite items. So here are my top 10 video-related stories from CES 2016, along with links to the relevant coverage:

1. Ultra HD Premium Certification

For the last couple of years, I’ve been advising most video-display shoppers to delay buying a 4K/UHD TV until the dust settled around the issues of high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG). Well, that wait now seems to be over—the UHD Alliance announced its Ultra HD Premium certification program, which specifies HDR and WCG performance parameters for content, distribution, and displays. If a product passes all the tests administered by an independent facility and thus earns the right to sport the Ultra HD Premium logo, consumers are assured of the best possible viewing experience available for the home.

The first displays to be certified as Ultra HD Premium are all of LG’s 2016 OLED TVs, all of Samsung’s 2016 SUHD TVs, and the Panasonic DX900 LED-LCD TV, and others are sure to follow. By definition, all Ultra HD Blu-ray players conform to the Ultra HD Premium specs, and most Ultra HD Blu-ray discs will as well. Warner Bros. has the logo on its Ultra HD Blu-ray titles, and other studios are likely to include it. In my view, this is the real tipping point of the transition to UHD, and I couldn’t be happier that it’s finally here.

2. HDR/WCG Displays

Flat-panel TVs capable of reproducing content encoded with HDR and WCG were all over CES. In addition to the aforementioned LG OLEDs, Samsung SUHD TVs, and Panasonic DX900, there were many others, including the Sony X930D and X940D, LG Super UHD TVs, Hisense H10C, Sharp N9000, TCL X1, Philips 8600, and Panasonic CZ950 OLED. The era of HDR and WCG has finally begun!

3. Quantum-Dot Backlighting

One of the driving forces behind the widespread appearance of HDR and WCG at the show is the use of quantum-dot technology in the backlights of many LED-LCD TVs. Nanosys is one of the primary suppliers of this technology, specializing in large films—called QDEF (Quantum Dot Enhancement Film)—embedded with billions of red and green quantum dots for use in FALD (full-array local dimming) sets with blue LEDs. Vizio was the first to use QDEF in its R65 last year, and new FALD panels at CES included the Hisense H10C, Sharp N9000, TCL X1, and Philips 8600. In addition, Samsung has licensed the Nanosys QD technology since 2010 and used it in both FALD and edgelit TVs, including the 2016 SUHD sets. If anything can breathe new life into LCD TVs, it’s quantum dots—well, and something like Sony’s Backlight Master Drive, which I highlight later in this article.

4. LG OLED TVs

My favorite flat-panel displays at the show were definitely the LG UHD OLED TVs. The company announced four new lines with a total of eight new models, but only the top two lines—E6 and the flagship G6—were on display in LG’s booth. As you might imagine, the blacks were to die for, and the colors really popped. Even better, the E6 and G6 lines are both flat, as is the entry-level B6; only the C6 is curved. It seems LG got the message that savvy consumers prefer flat TVs—hallelujah!

According to the company, the picture performance is the same across all four lines; design is the primary delineating factor as you step from one line to the next. The B6 does not have 3D capabilities, while the others do. The E6 and G6 sport a new “picture on glass” design and an integrated soundbar, while the G6 includes all the electronics in the base so the panel is more uniformly flat and wafer-thin.

Of course, they ain’t cheap—the 65″ E6 can be pre-ordered at Amazon and other online retailers for $7000, though no other prices have been announced yet. You can bet the 77″ G6 will be way up there, but if you aren’t set on the admittedly cool picture-on-glass design, integrated soundbar, and 3D capabilities of the G6 and E6, the 55″ or 65″ B6 should be fabulous for a lot less. We finally have a worthy successor to plasma!

5. LG Temple of OLED

The main entrance of LG’s booth is always jaw-dropping, but this year, it was even more amazing than ever. As you can partly see in the photo above, a large blacked-out area was filled with a total of 112 OLED TVs in a semicylindrical array and a dome above the audience, and all the panels were operating as one huge, immersive, tiled display. The content was mostly footage of outer space, which was highly effective in demonstrating OLED’s superior blacks. In fact, the entire presentation was quite mesmerizing, making it difficult to pull myself away to cover the rest of the show. Well done, LG!

6. Sony Backlight Master Drive

The most impressive future-tech demo I saw was Sony’s Backlight Master Drive, which is basically a FALD backlight with over 1000 zones. (The Sony rep would not say how many more than 1000 zones, but I suspect it’s much more.) Essentially, the backlight forms a black-and-white version of the video image—at a lower resolution than the final full-color image, to be sure, but much higher resolution than any current FALD backlight. And Sony is claiming this technology can achieve a peak light output of 4000 nits from a display that implements it.

This was a concept demo, but the Sony rep said that everything else about the display was conventional LCD technology, so it shouldn’t be all that difficult to commercialize it. Perhaps we’ll see a product next year, but for now, it’s the best thing to happen to LCD TVs since FALD first appeared.

7. Ultra HD Blu-ray Players and Titles

UHDTVs with HDR and WCG are all well and good, but they need HDR/WCG content to look their best. Of course, that content is starting to become available from several streaming providers, but optical discs still provide the ultimate in quality. At CES, three companies announced Ultra HD Blu-ray players—Samsung, Panasonic, and Philips. No pricing was announced for the Panasonic DMP-UB900, but the Samsung UBD-K8500 can be pre-ordered for $400, and the Philips BDP7501 will sell for the same price. That’s less than half of what the first Blu-ray player cost when it was first introduced, which I find remarkable.

In addition, several studios, including Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures, and Lionsgate, have announced Ultra HD Blu-ray titles that will be released this year. The initial slate will include around 20 titles from all four studios, with over 100 promised by the end of the year.

8. Dish Hopper 3 Satellite DVR

Satellite provider Dish Network caused quite a stir with the announcement of its Hopper 3 DVR, which offers 16 tuners (!) and UHD capabilities. In addition to being able to record up to 16 different programs at once, the Hopper 3 can support up to six Joey extender/clients to serve up to seven different programs to TVs around the house.

9. Wolf Cinema SDC-15 D-ILA Projector

Among all the audio demos at the Venetian hotel, there were a couple of video presentations. Wolf Cinema was showing its new SDC-15 Ultra 4K projection system, which is based on a flagship D-ILA core from JVC with HDR capabilities and e-Shift 4 to present UHD resolution. The Wolf system includes the projector and the company’s latest ProScaler MK IV outboard video processor, co-designed by the Wolf team and noted video engineer Jim Peterson, for a whopping $22,000—but based on the image I saw on a 10-foot-wide Seymour-Screen Excellence Ambient-Visionaire Black screen (1.2 gain), it’s well worth that kind of money.

In fact, it was the best projected image I saw at the show—and that was playing normal Blu-rays! When I was there, they were playing Tomorrowland, which looked almost like it was HDR content with super-deep blacks, razor-sharp detail, exceptional color, and no visible noise whatsoever. I can’t wait to see what this bad boy can do with genuine UHD/HDR content!

10. Optoma Prototype 4K DLP Projector

At CEDIA last October, Texas Instruments demonstrated a new DLP chip with 4 million micromirrors that are quickly shifted back and forth to simulate 4K/UHD resolution—not unlike JVC’s e-Shift but starting with twice as many native pixels. At CES, Optoma was showing a prototype of the first consumer projector to incorporate the new chip, and it also uses LED illumination instead of a lamp and color-filter wheel. It’s not expected to ship until the second half of the year, but from what I saw, it should be a winner.

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I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion called “More Than Pixels” at CES this year, with Hanno Basse, CTO of 20th Century Fox Film and President and Chairman of the UHD Alliance; Joe Kane, Founder and President of Joe Kane Productions; Pat Griffis, Vice President, Office of the CTO at Dolby Laboratories; and Dan Schinasi, Senior Manager of TV Product Planning at Samsung. It’s an hour-long, very informative conversation about high dynamic range and wide color gamut, which were central topics throughout CES.

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Brian Markwalter, Senior VP of Research and Standards for the Consumer Technology Association, discusses the state of Ultra HD, including the CTA 4K Ultra HD logo and what it means, how the CTA interfaces with other standards organizations such as the UHD Alliance, the UHDA’s Ultra HD Premium specification, how and why UHDTV sales are increasing so much faster than HDTV sales did in the transition from SD to HD, the state of over-the-air UHD broadcasting, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

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When attorney Kris Barber and his wife decided to build their “forever” home in Lucas, Texas, they knew it had to have a dedicated home theater. They wisely decided not to entrust the general contractor with the job, asking the architect to simply include a 25×25-foot empty box in the plans. Then, Kris called on Dennis Erskine to design and build the theater, with very impressive results.

While I was in Dallas for the CEDIA Expo last October, I visited Kris at his home to see the theater for myself. Happily, Dennis was also in town for the show, so he joined us to talk about the process of designing and building this beautiful, high-performance audio/video sanctuary. Here’s my interview with both of them, along with images from the build and the finished room:

The Barbers spent over $150,000 on their dream theater, but it was well worth every penny. After all, this is the family’s forever home, and their first goal was to make the theater a destination that would not fall into disuse. I think there’s no danger of that—in fact, I’m willing to bet the theater will entertain family and friends for generations to come.

For much more detail about how the Barber’s home theater came together, check out the build thread here.

If you’d like your home theater considered for HT of the Month, PM me with the details and a link to your build thread if available.

EQUIPMENT LIST

Sources

DirecTV satellite receiver
Oppo BDP-103 Blu-ray player
Sony PS4 game console
Sony PS3 game console

AV Electronics

Trinnov Altitude 24 pre/pro
Audio Control Savoy 7-channel power amp
Audio Control Pantages 5-channel power amps (2)
QSC DSP 322ua signal processors (2)

Projector

Runco VX-22 with anamorphic lens on motorized sled

Screen

Stewart StudioTek 130 (12′ wide, 2.35:1, CineCurve, 1.3 gain, acoustically transparent microperf)

Processor

Lumagen Mini

Speakers

Procella 815 (3, LCR)
Procella P8 (6, surrounds)
Triad Mini/8 (9, in-ceiling for Atmos, Auro, DTS:X)
Procella P18 subwoofers (2)

Cables

Mogami balanced cable for LCR and subwoofers
Liberty speaker cable
Wireworld interconnects

Control

Crestron

Power Conditioning

Torus Power

Seating

Fusion Escape (4)
Couch from previous house

Room Dimensions

16′ (W) x 20′ (L) x 10′ (H) in front of room
18′ (W) x 20′ (L) x 10′ (H) in back of room

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