Earlier this year Ben was elected as an Associate Member of the Institute of Acoustics after completing the Diploma in Acoustics & Noise Control at the University of Derby.

“The Institute of Acoustics is the UK's professional body for those working in acoustics, noise and vibration. It was formed in 1974 from the amalgamation of the Acoustics Group of the Institute of Physics and the British Acoustical Society (a daughter society of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers). The Institute of Acoustics is a nominated body of the Engineering Council, offering registration at Chartered and Incorporated Engineer levels.

Wandering around the Star Wars world was great fun, picking out all the small interactive parts of the environment. The build quality is amazing, definitely some great ideas for future Star Wars cinemas from our visit.

Even the queue for the rides features awesome work to help suck you into the Star Wars world and looking at all the technology, doors, walls and droids really helped take out the tiredness of any wait for the rides.

Rako Training!

We were down in Rochester training with Rako Controls Ltd on their brilliant lighting systems.

Lighting systems help give our home cinemas feeling, adding exciting and dramatic moods to the environment.

Rako lighting controls are simple to use and allow us to create amazing lighting scenes to bring the best out of home cinemas.

Interior Design

Interior Design & Furniture Show!

This Sunday (yesterday) we took a visit to NEC in Birmingham to take a look at The Furniture & Interior Design Show.

There were some great pieces of furniture here that would look amazing in a home cinema.

Acoustics of a home cinema are one of the most important parts of the design, here we discuss the 3D Skyline acoustic diffusor we built for the rear of a home cinema room.

Speaker Cable Thickness.

Speaker cables are used to connect an amplifier or receiver to speakers, and the thickness of the cable can have an impact on the quality of the sound that is produced.

This cool home cinema is built into shipping containers and features acoustic designs to ensure it sounds awesome in such a tight space.

This amazing shipping container building needed a really cool cinema room, our design was completed in Sketchup.

The new owners of this Georgian period home were looking for an amazing room to spend great family time in.

Anthem Room Correction puts the sophistication and power of an advanced audio lab in your hands so that you can achieve perfect sound at home.

We were delighted to be involved in transforming our clients room into something that looks and sounds amazing for them.

We are delighted to be featured in this months Essential Install magazine.

Our home cinema demo room facility is featured with interviews with Ben Hobbs about how CInema@Home went about designing and building their amazing home cinema demo room.

We had the opportunity to host our suppliers Pulse Cinemas recently - They were keen to see the level of performance we were able to do demonstrate with the equipment they represent.

Whilst here Simon interviewed Cinema@Home owner/founder Ben Hobbs for his Sofa Sessions.

Our home cinema demo room is now complete, it features the latest in 4k projection with a Sim2 Domino projector. Sound is provided through an Anthem MRX1140 and Paradigm Pro speakers in an 5.2.4 configuration. Two Paradigm Defiance X12 subwoofers provide the low end. Kaleidescape movie system provides the highest bitrate, ultra 4k Dolby Atmos movies.

It’s week 10 of working on our home cinema demo room build and we are fitting subwoofers, motorising cinema recliners, tracking down and eliminating buzzes and rattles and putting our AV Rack in.

Sound Pressure Level (SPL) is a measurement of sound intensity,

The lowest sound pressure which can be heard by humans is called the hearing threshold at 0dB.

The highest which can be endured before its painful is 130dB.

Humans perceive sound to be twice as loud when there is a 10dB difference. Every 10dB increase doubles how loud we perceive it. Every 10dB decrease means we perceive it to be half as loud.

It’s week 9 of working on our home cinema demo room build and we are laying carpet, fitting our fortress seating in and getting the office furniture set up.

It’s week 8 of working on our home cinema demo room build and it’s been busy.

We started off finishing the painting, then the mural wall was put up. We go into a little detail about mood lighting and play around with some fun scenes.

The starfield ceiling finally goes up (we’ve been waiting for the painting to finish).

Finally we fit acoustic seals and Batwings to the door.

Mood Lighting For A More Immersive Experience

Before we watch a movie we can prime ourselves and our audience to be more engaged and immersed in the atmosphere.

The result is a more engrossing, fun, experience. You can use mood lighting to tailor your room for different movie genres. Different lighting scenes for action, horror, sci-fi, romantic movies.

It’s week 7 of working on our home cinema demo room build. This week we finish out boxing the office/workshop space out. Fit the double oak doors, start framing out the main cinema ready for our acoustic fabric system and then start the painting.

Our workshop and office is located on one side of the building opening out to the demo room on the other side.