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Building a new home on the Central Coast? Building a new home cinema on the Central Coast? We can help design, supply and install your new home cinema. Simplify your decision and maximise the performance and your enjoyment, with a tailored home theater design.
Our range of home theatre products are below for you to shop online, or visit our East Gosford showroom and see our display home cinema...
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Custom installed televisions and soundbars need to be serviceable, reliable, and if required, readily integrated with digital audio systems. |
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ProjectorsEnjoy the theatre experience of your own home cinema, Mcleans can show you how. |
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Power Amplifiers / Surround Processors |
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HT Loudspeakers |
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Blu-ray / Ultra HD / 4K |
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Surround ReceiversCall us for a recommendation... |
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RTIWe offer a full range of RTI remote control products, please contact us with your requirements or enquiry. Products offered will be online here soon. |
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Installation and IntegrationHeres [some of] what you need to knowHome cinema's are sometimes seen as the ultimate urban status symbol. Ideally this space has everything going for it: little natural light, away from the rest of the family's activities, and likely a space that gives you studs and cement to play with. It is also generally accepted that building a dedicated home cinema can raise the potential market value of your home - just like a gourmet kitchen... Consider it as more than entertainment - consider it as an investment.First Things FirstWhat do you need to think about when you're building a home cinema? First, how big will this room be? Determine the number of people you anticipate using the room for movies most of the time. If this is about to become THE Sunday football destination, you want everyone to be comfortable, right?Next, What Feeling Do You Want Your Room To Create? In my experience, this is an excellent place to involve the ‘CFO' of your home. Decide if this is going to be an intimate room for getting lost in movies, or the multi-purpose gaming, movies and music centre of your home. (In the industry, we call this the media room). Decide this with whoever will be using the room so you can create an experience everyone will enjoy. With that vision in place, you can start laying out the budget. Here's a guide that I recommend: 35 to 40% of the equipment budget to the 5.1-channel home theatre speaker system. Upgrade to 7.1 if you want if you have a large room with tiered seating. 30% to 35% for the high definition video display (rear projection, or front projector and screen, flat-panel plasma or LCD, plus associated controls) 20% to 30% for the electronics (AV receiver or AV processor and amplifiers, Blu-ray player) 5% to 10% for cables, wiring, and miscellaneous materials Labour for installation and system calibration will be dependant on your unique requirements . Choose the Correct Room ShapeWhere possible, avoid square rooms and long narrow rectangular rooms because deep bass sound waves misbehave or "pile up" in square or extra-long rooms. They produce "standing waves," which result in areas with bass peaks where you'll hear way too much bass, and "nulls," where you'll hear virtually no deep bass. Sometimes these areas of too much or too little bass will vary every 30-40cm.*This is where an investment in a design for your rooms layout for seating placement, screen size, speaker and subwoofer choices and their placement is money wisely invested...depending on the complexity of design required a typical design ranges from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars... Trying to fix the standing-wave problem after the fact using electronic band-aids like equalization or an AV receiver's auto-EQ program, regardless of claims, is virtually impossible. Instead, opt for a rectangular shaped room where the dimensions (length, width and height) are not evenly divisible by a common denominator. For example, don't choose a room 8 x 4 x 2.4 m.; instead lay out dimensions of 7.5 x 4.3 x 2.4 m. That way, you'll minimize standing waves and the investment required to minimise their impact on your rooms sound quality and therefore enjoyment. Keep the Room Size to Practical LimitsHow many viewers do you expect to have? Figure out how many seats and what sort of seating you'll need - several rows of real theatre-type seats or a couple of couches plus some recliners? Then choose a room that accommodates the furniture and provides a reasonable viewing distance versus your preferred screen size [see note below]. Note that the larger you make your home theatre, the larger the speakers and more subwoofers you'll require, as well as having to investment more for bigger amplifiers.Allot 50% or More of Your Budget to Speakers and AmplificationDon't blow your home theatre budget on a super-expensive video projector, screen and furniture, leaving little for home theatre speakers and amplification. In other words, match your high-definition visual image with a similarly high-quality soundscape from a fine home cinema surround sound system, otherwise you'll only be disappointed at the jarring disconnect of combining a brilliant picture with inadequate sound. If you invest $4000 on an HD front projection system, then consider spending the same amount on a 5.1-channel home theatre speaker setup and another $1200 to $2,000 or more (depending on the room size) on an A/V surround receiver or double that for a more flexible A/V processor and matching amplifiers. Compute the Screen Size and Viewing DistanceYour seating distance versus screen size will determine your sense of picture clarity and detail as well as the quality of the viewing experience.If you choose front projection, go to www.projectorcentral.com and use the Home Projector Calculator to figure out the desirable "throw" distance vs. zoom ranges for specific front projectors at various price points. Remember that standard DVDs are only 480i or 480p and no amount of "up-conversion" will magically turn them into high definition. They are NOT high definition, so you must have a reasonable viewing distance to get satisfying image clarity. You can sit much closer for true high definition TV images (720p, 1080i) or those from Blu-ray players (1080p), as close as twice the screen height measurement. If you watch a lot of standard broadcast TV (not HD), then figure on a seating distance at least three or four times the screen height for acceptable image clarity. *Most screen manufacturers recommend a minimum of 2 times the screen height to a maximum of 6 times the height...THX specification recommends 3.68 times the height as an ideal seating distance. Can You Live With Front Projection?Can you live without front projection!?A big theatre-like widescreen image has terrific impact, but using a front projector requires a dark room (and I mean totally dark) or the projected image can look washed out. Ambient room light falling on the screen will cause poor blacks and loss of shadow detail. If you are willing to arrange your room so that it can be totally darkened - not too hard in most dedicated home cinemas - then a compact DLP or LCD front projector is affordable and convenient, with quite stunning picture quality. Within limits, a zoom lens lets you adjust the image size to suit the viewing distance and fit the screen. If there is usually ambient light in the room, or you prefer to watch TV and movies with some lights on, consider a projector with high light output or a large plasma or LCD TV - they offer much brighter, higher contrast images than a low specified/priced projector...but again a Cinema like experience demands a BIG picture. *Of course you can use your plasma/LCD for daytime viewing and your projector for night time viewing. Remember to include the Cost of a Screen for Front ProjectionUsing the wall for projection purposes is possible with some special and fairly expensive paints manufactured for the purpose, but a dedicated screen will produce much better contrast and image brightness. If you want the screen to be electrically lowered or raised out of sight, budget at least $1,000 - $2,000 for a retractable screen. Manually raised or lowered or fixed screens can be significantly less.Be sure to experience our ‘Cinemascope' acoustically transparent screen for the ultimate home cinema experience. Plan on gyprock or wood-paneled walls and a timber or carpeted floor. Avoid poured concrete floors and walls, which may cause boomy and exaggerated bass and degraded sound quality. If the floor is concrete, ideally plan on covering it with a wood sub-floor and carpet to provide some absorbency. Likewise, cement-block walls should be covered with studs and gyprock or wood panels. Isolation of sound, between rooms, has become more easily and cost effectively realised with products from Green Glue and Quietglue products. Consider Your Room Décor as Acoustical TreatmentIf you consider using a normal mix of absorbent and reflective surfaces--upholstered furniture, carpet or rugs, perhaps some draperies--and some variation in wall surfaces, then you shouldn't need to budget for room "treatments" or absorbers for your home cinema room, unless there are unusual factors at play (walls of glass, inflexible interior design rigidity).Bookcases or similar furniture will do nicely to prevent hard, aggressive reflections that may diminish sound quality. A room that has too many hard surfaces and is too reflective may inhibit dialog clarity and cause some occasional harshness in the treble; one that is too absorbent may diminish the natural sense of spaciousness that speakers can yield when there are some natural side-wall reflections. As a general rule, factor 25% surface treatment for absorption and 25% for diffusion. The goal is to achieve a frequency balance in your room...easier said than done, but worth every effort involved! Again, be sure to experience our showroom dedicated cinema with it's acoustic treatment to fully appreciate the impact it has on your enjoyment of music, HDTV, games and movies. Speakers already have their own enclosures (cabinets), and are carefully engineered to perform at their best in a freestanding location, unencumbered by special custom cabinets, nooks, custom shelving, or concealed in elaborately constructed cubbyholes behind special grilles. Without following specific design criteria and acoustic treatment this extra cabinetry will degrade and change the neutral transparent tonal balance of the speakers. |
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AT screens give you more of that Cinema experience...be sure to experience the superiority of our over 3 metre wide 'scope' AT screen in our Cinema at East Gosford for your self. The article below was originally written for 'installers' Read more >> |
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Curved 2 way Quasi ribbon centre channel to match MMG,MG12,.7,1.6, and MG1.7/1.7i when used in a multi channel system, replaced the CC3 in early 2011 Read more >> |
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$1,100.00
Best Bookshelf Speakers by Richter to date. Using the latest acoustic performance testing processes, they pack a lot of punch for their size, and out-perform many floor-standing models. Read more >> |
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$1,699.00
2019 Subwoofer of the year below $5,000. Faster and more Powerful than previous models – delivering clean, accurate and a deep bass performance you can really feel. Read more >> |
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$2,499.00
The WIZARD is regarded as the biggest selling Australian Loudspeaker of all time. Re-engineered & designed to meet today’s market expectations from a visual and performance perspective. Read more >> |
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Premium Home Cinema Seating with refrigerated cup holders & powered headrests. In your choice of Leather / Split Leather or 100% Leather. Read more >> |
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A range of custom in-wall and in-ceiling speakers and subwoofers, from basic to premium models. We can specify the correct model for your needs. Read more >> |
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$1,399.00
The premium smart soundbar for TV, films, music, gaming, and more. Featuring Dolby Atmos. Control with voice, Airplay2, App, TV remote and more. Read more >> |
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$999.00
Introducing Playbar by Sonos - The soundbar for music lovers. Complements HD television screens with richly textured HiFi sound. Read more >> |
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$590.00
Widescreen sound and music streaming for TVs on stands and furniture. Add SUB and two PLAY:1 rears for wireless 5.1 surround sound. Read more >> |