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Mt. Sierra College Theater - August 2005 - page 3  To house the gear for the system, Elite used a support beam on the back corner of the room as the outer corner of a custom-made storage closet. A five-foot-tall Avstand rotating rack was placed in the middle of the small closet to give it ample room for air to circulate. Above the rack in the ceiling, a very slow-moving fan, the kind you’d find in a bathroom above the toilet, pulls hot air out of the room, keeping the temperature very moderate and helping to keep the gear from heating up the theater room. A room full of students, a teacher and a DLP projector can be enough of a challenge for the AC system, so keeping the gear isolated behind well-insulated walls helps keep the environment cooler.In the rack, the gear is primarily Rotel, including a Rotel RSX-1067 receiver and a Rotel RDV-1040 DVD player. A Hughes HD Satellite receiver and a JVC S-Video VCR round out the electronics in the closet. To provide ample outlets and protect against power surges, a Monster Power HTS-2600 was installed. XLO interconnects were used to wire the components and speakers. Elite gave the school several options for controlling the system, including two CHAD Remotes by Integra, as well as a Xantech keypad on the wall near the main lecture podium.  The powerful Sim2 Domino 30 projector hangs from the ceiling, projecting a vibrant picture. It is very quiet, despite not being behind a hush box. The ceiling and all of the vents and other items, including sprinkler heads, required for code, were painted black and a black projector was chosen to help it blend in. The front of the theater was built out a few feet and to the right and left side of the 106-inch Da-Lite Cinema Contour with HC Cinema screen. A hollow enclosure was created to allow access to the left and right speakers. Rather than having to remove parts of the front wall to access the speakers, the screen is lifted and the installer can access the speakers from the side. Custom grille covers on the wall that are attached with Velcro often can wear out and become unreliable, falling off in the middle of a movie, so this design overcomes this potential issue. The theater was set up as a 7.1 system with rear and side channel B&W DS6 S3 speakers that can be run in di-pole or monopole configuration. At the front of the theater in the custom-built cabinetry are three B&W LCR 600 S3 speakers that were used as the front left, front right and center channels. Since this is a classroom as well, one of the storage cupboards below the screen has become the perfect storage place for a series of wooden boards that fit into the cup holders on the 10 leather theater seats made by Fortress that are arranged in two rows of five. Students can take notes during a lecture or film with these cleverly made accessories. With DVD sales booming, a theater like this gives students a chance to experience what it would be like to see their films on a custom home theater. More and more people are adding theaters to their homes; video sales are sometimes more important to a film’s success than the box office total. These lucky students can get a head start on producing student films that not only look good on the computer monitor during editing, but can refer to the theater and see their work on a big screen, too.
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