Home Theater Blog Introduction

Welcome to the inaugural blog post of the new Home Theater Blog! I’ve decided to launch this blog in an effort to consolidate knowledge from those far more experienced than myself in the area of home theaters. I actually searched around and noticed a profound lack of home theater blogs.

Where Are All The Blogs?

This is a question I’ve asked myself for a while. But I think the answer can be linked to the wealth of knowledge found at sites like AVSForum.com. And while I visit this site multiple times a day and constantly read build logs and learn more, I also find myself frustrated. I find that it is really hard to find specific items that I would like to understand without happening across old threads that are either out of date or worse…exactly what I’m looking for, but the pictures have long since been deleted.

So Why a Home Theater Blog?

Two mains reasons. First and foremost, I enjoy blogging. I enjoy documenting my experiences, good and bad, and hope that others may benefit from those experiences. If a blog post helps even one person accomplish something on their own home theater, the blog post was worth while! And even if it doesn’t, I still had the enjoyment of documenting my experience!

The second primary reason really comes down to trying to build a resource that can be referenced in a google search that won’t have dead pictures or missing parts of information. People post amazing builds, things I can’t hope to recreate. But often times the information is somewhat lacking as to how they got from the beginning to the end. My plan is to build blog posts that offer information that can be referenced with every single step of how I got there. That way if you want to do the same thing, there’s no question what you need to buy and what steps to take to get there.

What Will Your Home Theater Blog Be About?

I’m a relative notice at home theater builds. This may make me the worst person ever to blog about the topic. Or perhaps, a person like the rest of you with a similar level of experience. So maybe I can better convey my experience with that lack of prior experience. That’s not at all confusing right?

But, to provide a little more background about myself… I’ve always wanted a home theater. Over the years, in the houses we’ve owned, it just hasn’t happened…until now. I finally have a house with a dedicated home theater! But wait, what will you blog about? Well, that home theater isn’t exactly ready to go. It has a TV and some theater seating, but we have a long way to go until I would call it a true home theater.

What’s Next

I’m planning on starting off exactly where I started off…designing my theater. I searched around trying to figure out the best way to design it, sources for inspiration, and knowledge on how to do things. Much of that knowledge that I’ve found has come from the AVSForum, and I plan to reference various posts in the forum with the hope of streamlining some of the information that can often be buried deep in a thread with 100+ pages.

Once we get past the basics, I plan to start building out my home theater, right here on this blog. I will document everything I do with specific topics and share it with the home theater community in the hopes that someone finds it useful. I don’t plan to have any advertisements or make any money through links. So you can rest assured that if I post something here, it wasn’t because I was paid. I have a day job that takes care of that, and this is just a hobby that I plan to enjoy.

How About a Picture?

Before we move on to more entertaining topics than an introduction, I’ll post a few rough pictures of the starting point that I have to work with. Some of you may be starting with more or less, but this is where my journey begins: