Essential Install Home Cinema Insight June 2017 | Page 5

Home Cinema Insight | Case Study: Barco
HD video, seven surround sound rooms (and that’s
not even including the main home cinema), almost
100 zones of audio, DALI and DMX lighting control –
basically, as much technology that could be crammed
into the impressive property.
To complement the quality of the rest of the house, the
client instructed Adept to design a superior home cinema
system to seat his family and guests. This included front
row seating featuring four custom made day beds that
seat up to eight people, with the back row made up of a
more conventional nine cinema seats – custom made to
accommodate a taller client – offering ample seating for a
total of 17 people.
Using Savant’s Apple-based control system, Adept
worked with respected brands such as Barco Residential,
Cal Audio Tech, ATI, DT Screens and Arcam to deliver a
discreet Dolby Atmos cinema installation boasting 4K
laser projection and digital streaming content via the
home’s media sever by Fusion Research.
Being the first ever Loki Cinemascope 4K Laser install
(projector supplied by Genesis Technologies), naturally
Matthew is brimming with pride.
“The Loki delivers a resolution of 5120 x 2160 PX
which means it is possibly one of the only projectors that
does not nee d an anamorphic lens to deliver widescreen
format, whilst also offering the benefit of not losing pixel
quality,” he enthuses.
“Many other products out there either enlarge the
pixel with the lens to fill a native 2:40:1 screen or do
the same by zooming in with lens shift, which in effect
drops around a third of the pixels. This projector also
automatically detects which format is playing so will
switch between 16:9 3840 x 2160 and 2:40:1 5120 x
2160, saving the client the need to select the right picture
size. The Loki is also super bright at 6,700 lumens; there is
also a 8,500 lumen Media Room version too!”
Complementing the projector is a 180” DT Screen, a
relative newcomer to the market. “This delivers one of the
finest acoustically perforated fabrics the industry has seen
and for a fixed screen solution also a very completive
price point,” Matthew points out.
Audio from California Audio Technologies speakers
and eight subwoofers deliver a powerful audio
experience in this Atmos/DTS: X set up room, powered
with almost 15,000W of power from ATI digital amplifiers,
with Arcam taking care of all of the signalling.
Room With A View
Another feature helping to make this cinema truly stand
out is its eye-catching curved Manhattan Skyline light box,
which Adept was commissioned to make for the client as
he wanted the bar area to feel like he was looking out of
a window. The backlit, acoustically perforated, stretched
fabric artwork allows the acoustic treatment to perform to
the best of its ability whilst also delivering the aesthetic
that the client and the design team requested.
“The most challenging aspect of the project was
managing change,” Matthew admits. “During the four
year duration, the project tripled in value; many changes
were due to the client’s misunderstanding of the original
tender brief, and also his requirement to understand what
would offer the best performance for any given price point,
and where value versus performance ends. The client
knew and could afford to spend more money, however
at some points the additional cost only offered a small
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