Backstory:
For the past year or so I've been working on my HT. I had a 110" screen, an Epson 8350 projector, my DIY 3-way Scan/Kef speakers, Kef r20c center, and some Kef Q100's for rear speakers. I 'completed' everything last summer.
There were a few things that I didn't like about the room. Mainly, it didn't really have that "theater" vibe to it. I really didn't like floorstanding speakers in front of the screen (not physically blocking the view, but just forward of). I started thinking about the THX type baffle wall builds and really wanted to do something like that but I couldn't really justify it. Until...
Around November a listing on Craigslist popped up. It had a lot of very nice JBL Pro Cinema gear. For practically free (literally) I obtained the following:
(4) JBL 2035PHL 15" Woofers
(4) JBL 2446J/2380A Compression Drivers/Horns
(4) JBL 8330A Rear Speakers
These all came from a theater which had closed down about 2.5 years ago. Some of the items were brand new and most were barely used.
Now I have High Efficiency (the woofer is about 99dB @ 1w/1m efficient and the horns are ridiculously efficient at 111dB @ 1w/1m). I picked up all that and it gave me an excuse to build the baffle wall I'd been wanting to build.
yes, these will almost certainly be toed in by some degree (I'll have to get these in the room to determine that), which means the baffle wall sides will be angled to support this. The center channel is the only one which will be firing through an AT screen.
I'll be going active 2-way on each of the speaker so I have better control of the response, with each channel driven by a channel of my Crown XLS1500's (I have three of these amps already).
And this is where the build begins...