Technology is catching up with the growing desire for spaces that deliver the high-quality picture and sound of a dedicated home theater while offering the multi-use flexibility of a media room, but there is no one-size-fits-all plug & play solution if you’re looking for a truly premium experience. So an entertainment room like the one in Serenity required many teams of people working on the various technical tasks, often having to regroup, to pull this space off. Below, we provide high-level, jargon-free explanations of how they make these key contributions happen.
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Achieving Serenity | A Closer Look
Making this impossible theater possible took a lot of engineering, a lot of customization, and a little magic
by the Cineluxe staff
May 20, 2022
the speaker system
The tech team faced every imaginable hurdle installing a 35-speaker Atmos system in the theater but still achieved stellar results
“The home theater is Serenity’s audio video crown jewel but it offered by far the most significant design and installation challenges. ‘It wasn’t as if the theater could have been redesigned with walls or with better acoustical speaker placement. It just wasn’t possible,’ integrator Jeff Williams stated. So, it was a big challenge, especially with the number of speakers required for Dolby Atmos. From the get-go, Williams knew he was going to need expert help, and he went to Triad Speakers and its design team to see what was possible. “They were really the ones that spearheaded that entire design, which was really nice for us.”
the sound processing
As important as all the other contributions were, it was some processing magic that took the Serenity theater over the top from impossible to real
“My initial impressions of the Serenity theater were based on a handful of images emailed to me by Mike Gaughn with a simple question: ‘Is there any way this room could sound good? Given the layout of the speakers, the material construction of the space, the variable of moving walls, etc., I thought about it and said, ‘I could make it sound really good . . . but only with Trinnov.’ So I wasn’t surprised to find out that’s exactly the audio processing employed in this room. The story of how Trinnov came to be involved is almost as interesting as the room itself.”
the home automation
This sprawling, entertainment-oriented home put such big demands on its control system the company had to design new gear just to handle the load
“The heart of every smart home is the automation system but when you’re talking about a home the size of Serenity, with this many sub-systems being managed and controlled, not just any control system will do. The homeowner specifically wanted to use Control4, which was how integrator Jeff Williams was brought into the job. ‘Someone the owner knew had Control4 and loved it,’ Williams said, ‘and when we started the project, he said to us, “If it can be on Control4, I want it on that system. Period.”‘ That went on to include not just control over the reference home theater system but hundreds of circuits of lighting, 28 zones of HVAC, pool systems like fountains and pumps, more than 20 distributed audio video zones, and motorized drapery.”
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