Installation Of The Month: September 2022
Congratulations to Rob and the team from Maven for this incredible cinema.
This entire project has been considered with the utmost attention to detail. We love this high specification cinema, which also deservedly won the Smart Building Award for ‘Best Home Cinema over £50k’.
This traditionally themed cinema room is part of a whole-house system installed as part of a large refurbishment at a Northamptonshire period property.
Maven
Artcoustic
The brief was for a traditional aesthetic, so a deep red colour theme with brass fixtures & fittings is consistent throughout. In between bespoke dark wood panelling & acoustic fabric on the walls, a selection of custom vinyl illustrations of classic movies are beautifully lit with hidden warm-white LED strips.
The red velvet curtains retract on the Silent Gliss motor rail to reveal a 10ft wide 16:9 acoustically transparent projection screen which sits in front of an array of three Artcoustic A12 cinema arrays, accurately angled to deliver controlled dispersion over both rows.
Three Artcoustic dual 10” subwoofers handle the bass with plenty of acoustic headroom, amazingly due the woven screen there is zero movement in the fabric even when really pushing this system hard.
Artcoustic Evolve 8-4s are positioned within Dolby reference guidelines for the sides and rears, and the four Architect 4-2s complete this Dolby Atmos 7.3.4 audio system.
"One of the main challenges on this project was ensuring there was the correct level of bass being produced from the subwoofers without being in the room or on show. A precisely positioned fire door meant that there were some limitations to the screen wall depth so everything had to be worked backwards from this."
"With some testing and software simulations, we were able to liaise with Artcoustic to calibrate & achieve the same levels (with additional headroom) from their slimline subwoofers." – says Rob from Maven.
“This room is one of the best cinemas we have ever had the pleasure of designing & installing. We have carried out many larger and smaller rooms of varying designs but going into this cinema just feels luxurious and it’s a great change from a modern room with minimalist design."
"Everyone who gets the chance to experience this room is constantly saying 'wow!' at every turn of the head, be it the curtains, screen, speakers or overall design."
"The best moment with this cinema was the first time we demonstrated it to the client, not only was he completely blown away by the picture quality but the audio and sound effects made him jump out of his skin! I have never seen anyone so shocked at the sound that this sort of room can produce, and the smile on their faces afterwards gave us goosebumps – a very rewarding reaction to a lot of hard work."
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Rob Simmonds, Maven
Kit List
Artcoustic:
Artcoustic 3 x Spitfire A12 (LCR)
Artcoustic 4 x Evolve 8-4
Artcoustic 2 x Architect 4-2
Artcoustic 3 x Spitfire Control 2
Others:
Arcam AVR 30 + PA720
Sony VPL-VW890 projector
Custom Velvet edged 10ft wide 16:9 Acoustically Transparent woven screen
Control4
Lutron lighting
Kaleidescape
Apple TV 4K
SkyQ
Featured Products
Spitfire A12
Operating Range: 70 Hz (-6dB) to 20 kHz
Sensitivity: 103 dB
Average Peak SPL: 127 dB
Max Power: 360 Watt
Impedance: 6 ohms
Weight: 10.6 kg
Dimensions (mm): H 584 • W 280 • D min. 250/max. 350
SL Evolve 8-4
Operating Range: 70 Hz (-3dB) to 40 Hz
Sensitivity: 99 dB
Average Peak SPL: 123 dB
Max Power: 240 Watt
Impedance: 3.5 ohms
Weight: 5.8 kg
Dimensions: H: 370 W: 270 D: 72/82 mm
