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"Well hello Clarice." This basement room is 12x15x6, which makes the 40" TV look a lot bigger than it really is (and makes me feel tall!). I propped the TV up on a carpeted stand built of 2x6s, and lined the walls with eggcrate foam covered in thick, pleated black cotton batting fabric in an attempt to soundproof the basement so my attached neighbors won't be annoyed.

And this is where the "magic" happens! If this old couch could talk... It would probably say, "YUCK! GET OFF OF ME! AND CLEAN THAT!" RM rear sats are on the walls to each side, set into cutouts in the foam, with extra foam attached to the ceiling where there may be "reflections." And yes, those are AWARDS for ADVERTISING hanging there on that wall. AWARDS!

To darken the room completely, I installed a black shade on the basement window. Black fabric "curtains" on the TV make it easy to convert from 16:9 image to 4:3 image for older movies.

Lights on a dimmer controlled here at the foot of the steps. I painted stripes with glow-in-the-dark paint on these ominous narrow steps leading down from the kitchen because I got tired of tripping and spilling popcorn in the dark. "If you can chew through the leather straps," I tell people as I lead them down into the theater, "maybe I'll let you leave in the morning."

The real "Puff Daddy." What's a home theater without The Stay-Puft Marshallow Man?
"QUICK, EMPTY YOUR MIND COMPLETELY!"

This little RM6500 Subwoofer is just an 8" downward-firing driver, but it does its job in the room's small space and often has me worrying that the plaster is going to shake out of the walls and bring the house down around me. Wired via speaker level connections; fronts from the receiver to the sub, then out to the front L&R speakers.

I couldn't find a small enough black-finish equipment rack, so I built my own with black laminate-covered shelving. It's not as stable as I'd like, but it takes up little more space than the actual components. I'm using TOSLINK digital connection from the DVD to the Receiver, and COMPONENT video from the DVD directly to the TV. Never had a problem with the Pannies, and couldn't be happier with the Denon (except it doesn't do DTS).

The left-rear (facing the back) RM sat. I couldn't paint the eggcrate foam black, because paint caused the foam to disintegrate. So I simply cut out the spot, and cut the batting fabric right around it, running the wire up the wall under the covering and attaching the RM sat using the RM's included wall mounting bracket.

Alpha by title, except for series, such as (Connery's) Bond, Eastwood & Allen. (The porn is upstairs, with the old start-stop VCR, you sickos.)