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This is meant to be the home theater room of the tech house.

A house designed from the bones up with a certain techy inhabitant in mind.

We know it's gonna have a big screen with big sound from all around,

but exactly how big is the screen and where actually are we putting the speakers?

And I come to think of it that kind of depends on where we put the couch.

What the heck?

Before we spend a bunch of money though, we need a plan.

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The first thing we need to figure out is the orientation of this whole setup.

And I gotta admit man, I thought it was a no-brainer this whole time that it was gonna go this way But now that I'm in here, it's way more square than I thought.

It really is, but the one thing we can be sure about, the couch doesn't go here.

The great thing about this orientation is that it's not the other orientation, which would actually put the TV in front of that window.

Which even just talking around the office has been really contentious.

Nobody wants to block a window.

Yeah, and honestly, there's a lot more room this way than I thought there was.

But we have to contend with light behind us which is a major problem for reflections.

You're cursed either way either you put the TV on this side

and the windows are behind it That looks weird

or you mean at least with this you could like use that light to read or something

And we can get blinds or blackout curtains or something.

Easy, but there's another issue that they give us

which is you want to be centered like we are now with them And if you do that, there's kind of a useless amount of room over there.

Okay, what if

Put like a table or something over there for the games

or something or you have like a little wet bar in the closet here maybe or...

I don't know.

I was into this orientation when I thought

that it would only be like three feet from the wall and we could build a bench in there.

That would be cool, but now it's like you could break dance over there.

It feels a bit weird.

And also if we add more chairs outside, the viewing angle is going to be crap.

Oh yeah, the farther sideways you are, you're already 30 degrees off axis just being on the couch.

Yeah.

And I am concerned about how big of a TV we can even put here.

So I don't know about the aspect ratio, but this is something like over 80 inches, not counting that flap on the end.

Honestly, it seems a little bit small to me.

We could go bigger than this.

Really?

Okay.

That kind of changes things.

My main concern with this orientation would be that we can only really fit a 65 or 77 inch TV, Which is a big TV,

but is it home theater big?

I have some trauma here One time a neighborhood kid came over to my house

and was like I heard you have a home theater

And then she got in there

and she was like that's just a TV I don't want the future owner of this house to go through that goddammit.

Okay.

Yeah Yeah, we do have to consider there'll be like a TV console underneath it There's a good amount of space behind it, which is a blessing and a curse It could look weird

if there's too much

But it is nice to be able to go back there actually work with your wires and stuff like that

This way you see the back of the couch

when you walk in which I don't love and also

if you're taller than me You're probably gonna hit your head on this.

This is gonna be even lower when it has drywall and stuff

It's kind of a nice view without the TV there at all actually How does that feel?

Does it feel bigger yet?

Not really Size wise it feels pretty samey to me, but we could get more people in here on like beanbags or bar stools behind the couch

So if we're gonna entertain that's kind of a big factor

But we would have to be a little more creative with how we mount the TV

right because those really big ones

and I think we can get a bigger one on this

wall with those really big ones I think some of them have to be wall mounted

and there's we're like we're gonna have to we're gonna have

to like build something picture me as a stud you know

what man let's just make the call we're all feeling it let's set up the other way

and do the screen size testing over there okay okay the

weight of this decision what will Linus think what is this Linus isn't here.

Okay, so you put your end there and I'll just put like that there.

We've got our Walmart sheet hung up here and we've got it positioned so that 48 inches

digitally is the same as 48 inches physically.

So let's try a couple different screen sizes.

50 inches basically looks like I'm holding up my phone at arm's length right now.

Pretty much, yeah.

I'll feel a little bigger.

65 is not a home theater.

Nope.

Keep going bro.

Okay, even at 80 or 85, it doesn't seem that big.

It's not big.

How far away are we from this thing?

This has got to be like 12 feet or something.

12 feet?

What?

Well, my head is more like...

Yeah.

More like 11 to the head.

I only have a 65 at home from 9 feet away, but it somehow looks bigger than this right now.

Now we're bigger than our sheet.

Yeah.

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But honestly, it looks like if you could do it, you could go bigger than 110.

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If a 120 shows up at our warehouse somehow...

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We wouldn't be upset about it.

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We wouldn't be upset about it.

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I think we can safely design the room around 100 to 110 inches.

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Okay, now projector or TV though.

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Ugh.

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Well, as you can see, we already had to block out...

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The windows just to be able to do this experiment, so there's some drawbacks with Projectors.

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I'm breaking my cardboard couch Especially in this layout Projector placement is just about impossible Oh,

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yeah, because projectors typically need a long throw unless you buy a short throw projector

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But you don't have the height like it would be right here.

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That's gonna be hot and noisy so I'm blocking the third person

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I think projectors are pretty much a right off here

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and that's not really a sad thing given how the price of these large format TVs has really come down

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and picture quality tends to be better on TVs anyway.

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Can we get a TV up the stairs here though?

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This is pretty much it.

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If you can slide the box through here into this room, pivot and go up the stairs, you can make it.

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But what about sitting off axis like if we do put a bench here?

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It's gonna depend on the technology, but This is fairly extreme.

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It's like a 45 degree angle

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Wouldn't be a problem for an OLED TV or a lot of the new mini LEDs

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So but honestly you don't want to watch a movie here anyway

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We can do like beanbags or pillows on the floor or something.

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This spot is more just so you can chill Have an eye line.

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Yeah more hang out.

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You could game from here

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Especially if you're like a four player quad screen kind of thing

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and you have a little bottom corner screen But you're not gonna want to hang out in this spot.

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The main spots are gonna be here.

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Maybe a chair over here It wouldn't be where I would choose to sit

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if I'm alone

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But you could watch a movie from here in a chair

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The thing you remember with the exercise we're doing here is

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that we're not picking the ideal viewing distance for ourselves And this is subjective thing,

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but we're picking this for the eventual owner of the tech house their partner their kids and If we're being honest Linus,

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so how can we be sure we're picking a screen size or a viewing distance that other people will like?

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Well, there's actually standards around this.

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We also did a previous video around this, but basically THX, somewhat of movie buffs,

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they think that around 40 degrees is the optimal field of view fillage of a cinema display.

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Maybe as low as 36 or even in a pinch 26 degrees.

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When we tested this before, most people did prefer between 35 degrees, 40 degrees, and maybe even 45 if they were gaming,

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where they preferred it a little more immersion.

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One neat trick you can do to figure out how much

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of your field of view is filled by display is you put your fist out in front

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and then count how many fists wide it is.

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I'm counting right now about, I don't know, 43 or 45 degrees field of view from this 98 inch TV simulation.

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Jordan has typed in the actual numbers to a website built for this

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and he's gonna tell us whether or not that fist trick was accurate.

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Pretty close actually.

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So we're 98 inches of screen.

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I'm 11 feet away to my head.

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We're aiming for 40 degrees roughly.

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We're at 35.9.

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This is safe and a lot of people will like this field of view.

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We could go a little bigger, maybe 110 inch and we'd still be in a safe zone or even a preferred zone for some people.

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110 is actually perfect.

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40 degrees.

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I have a feeling we're gonna get 110.

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Now let's switch gears to audio.

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Where are we gonna put all the speakers?

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The drawback of getting such a big TV in a room with angled ceiling like this

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is that you're getting a lot of distance here, which is gonna be a blessing when you have to mess with stuff, but it could look visually weird.

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However, all that is an advantage when it comes to placing the front speakers

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because you don't really want your speakers to be very close to a wall.

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You want them to be out in the room, and that often looks really weird.

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But here, it'll just be in line with this TV.

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You have all this space.

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We can even put an acoustic panel here to suck up a lot of the energy

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that gets put out this direction from the diaphragm.

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And it won't look weird at all.

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How sick are these, eh?

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The most important speaker for movies is the center channel, because that's where most of the dialogue comes from.

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And this is an area where a projector is actually a bit better, because if you have an acoustically transparent screen, you can actually position the center channel right around the mouths of the actors,

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so the sound is coming from where you see it.

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We're going to have a TV in here, so it's going to have to be a bit lower.

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And we're gonna have to buy a console

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that has a cutout for it to go in

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or wall mount the TV and then just have it on its own little shelf or stand or floating or something, right?

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Floating.

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I got you.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh, God.

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There you go.

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The surround speakers are always placed either directly in line with your ear or slightly behind, which is not going to be a problem here.

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Now originally when we were thinking about having the theater go this way, we were thinking we should have in-wall surrounds

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So that we are not eating up any actual walkway more than we need to because I'm a guy who has

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Surrounds on the wall like that

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and I'm always worried about hitting them with my shoulder But now that we're using this orientation

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It'll be no problem to just put these on the wall right here

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Or even angled a bit

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or even on this side We could have one here although

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not having them completely symmetrical since the other one will be over here, bothers me a little bit.

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So we'll probably tack these on something like this.

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That's our five speakers, but the 0.1 and 5.1 is a subwoofer.

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For that, we actually want to do something called an infinite baffle, which is, it's going to be a future video that's its own DIY project where we buy a driver

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that does not have a big speaker cabinet behind it.

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And what we're going to do is put it in the wall using this soffit cavity.

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So for example, it could be mounted in here,

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and then we'll make a box cabinet in that cavity for the subwoofer itself, which is pretty sweet.

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And if we had just one sub, we would probably position it here, but what about second sub?

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Placing multiple subs can be a little finicky and use some trial and error that we're not gonna do in this video, but just at a high level, it's likely that the best place for your second sub

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is opposite in the room from the first one because you don't want destructive interference from the two hitting each other.

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Now why even have a second, third, or even fourth sub?

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Most people intuit that that's because you want more bass, more loud.

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But it's actually not that.

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It's that you want more even bass across all the listening positions.

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I don't think we're gonna go four subs in here.

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That's a little hardcore for Gi, I think.

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But we probably do want to do two, and my hunch is we'll do one over there, maybe one back here or over here or something.

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But we do need to keep in mind we did have

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a second idea for this soffit cavity space We're thinking maybe making some drawers

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that pull out that can store extra blankets pillows beanbag chairs or something and Then tuck them away.

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No mess no clutter one drawer over here and one drawer over there

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Maybe we could even have one boxed-out cabinet for both the drawer and the subwoofer with a shared wall

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Ideas So that's 5.2, but there is another decimal place these days.

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We're probably gonna go for a 5.2.4 setup, and the 4 would be 4 height channels.

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You can do 6 heights and get a real complete sweep of, like, something's in front of you, then it's over you, then it's behind you, but that's overkill, especially in a small space like this.

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All we're really looking for is something's in front of me, and there's a sense of motion going behind me.

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So the first ones would go up here, maybe three-quarters of the way between the seat and the TV.

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But the second ones are a little more challenging now that we've gone with this layout.

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If I want to hear a helicopter fly overhead and then go into the distance behind me, that second height speaker should be kind of behind me.

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But because of the angle of this roof, that kind of puts it right there.

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Which might be acceptable if we turn the volume on it way down.

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It's either that or maybe it goes just kind of...

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No, that's in front of me still.

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It would have to just be directly overhead or slightly back.

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And you've got to keep in mind most people are kind of leaning back.

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So, lower down might be better.

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I don't like it.

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Do you have to have four?

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You don't have to.

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You could do two.

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It's just that then you're only going to get any movement like left to right stereo.

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And you wouldn't get any of this kind of dimension front to back.

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Although you might get some...

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Surrounds might cover that a little bit.

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Surrounds might cover that depending on how it is mixed.

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Maybe there then?

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I think that's the spot.

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That's the front back dimension, but there's also the left right dimension to think about where we are actually a bit constrained here

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because of this HVAC unit that's right there.

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However, if we go to the inside of that,

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I think we will still be sufficiently wide to get a stereo effect which puts us right about here.

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Of course all of these speakers need to be wired and while we have the studs exposed, it's a great time to route that out.

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I would actually, even though that's pretty close to the ground, it might be better for us to route it up and over into the rafters

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and then down behind the TV where our AVR is going to be.

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Ha!

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Oh, damn it.

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That's all the speakers we're going to have in this room, but if you're wondering what those other speakers in the Dolby diagram are, the ones in the back are called surround backs,

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and a lot of people skip those because you're just not very good at hearing sounds directly behind you.

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And these ones at the front are called front wides.

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Those can be very cool and they kind of made a bit of a resurgence in the past couple years, but they only really move the needle if you've got a really large space.

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And that would just be silly in here.

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In fact, they'd block the door.

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I stab my own finger.

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Here we go.

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There we go.

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So what are we actually buying?

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That is a question for another video.

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Alright.

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Этот урок разговорной практики уровня B2 построен на видео «I Built a Fake Home Theater…». В этом видео 284 предложений и 3342 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 17:08. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 195 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 86% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
projector существительное	/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/	прое́ктор
surround глагол	/səˈɹaʊnd/	окружа́ть, окружи́ть
orientation существительное	/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/	размеще́ние, устано́вка
couch существительное	/ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/	дива́н, куше́тка
drawer существительное	/dɹɔɹ/	я́щик, выдвижно́й я́щик
subwoofer существительное	/ˈsʌbˌwʊf.ə/	сабву́фер
cavity существительное	/ˈkæv.ɪt.i/	по́лость
fist существительное	/fɪst/	кула́к
dimension существительное	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	аспе́кт
drawback существительное	/ˈdɹɔˌbæk/	недоста́ток, изъя́н
soffit существительное	/ˈsɒf.ɪt/	софи́т
stereo существительное	/ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/	стереосисте́ма
overhead существительное	/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/	накладны́е расхо́ды
float глагол	/fləʊt/	пла́вать, всплывать
pillow существительное	/ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞]	поду́шка

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
figure out глагол	разбира́ться, разобра́ться
go up глагол	поднима́ться, подня́ться
pull out глагол	выходи́ть, вы́йти
check out глагол	проверя́ть, прове́рить
come down глагол	спуска́ться, спусти́ться
eat up глагол	съесть, дое́сть
go back глагол	возвраща́ться, возврати́ться
hold up глагол	задерживать, ждать

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

I'll feel a little bigger.
How far away are we from this thing?
We wouldn't be upset about it.
Where are we gonna put all the speakers?
Do you have to have four?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	is meant · be centered · is filled
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	has been · has really come · has typed
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	here, which is · behind, which is · guy who has

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 105 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например we're, gonna, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, contentious /kənˈtɛn.ʃəs/, immersion /ɪˈmɝʒən/, sufficiently /səˈfɪʃəntli/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, digitally /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəli/, inhabitant /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/, symmetrical /səˈmɛtrək(ə)l/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: subwoofer /ˈsʌbˌwʊf.ə/, whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, drywall /ˈdraɪˌwɔl/, walkway /ˈwɔkˌweɪ/, sideways /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, overhead /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/, hurdle /ˈhɝd(ə)l/, inhabitant /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/, hardcore /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, beanbag /ˈbiːnbæɡ/, overhead /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/, stairs /ˈstɛɹz/, transcribe /trænˈskɹaɪb/

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Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как projector, surround, orientation.

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