If you have always dreamed of a customized, ultra high-tech, inviting and
luxurious home theater, here is a treat for your eyes. There is a fine line
between home theater and design marvel. We have seen some truly incredible home
theater setups in the past, and today we are here with a list of the 12 most
luxurious home theaters. Watching movies takes on a whole new level in these
luxurious home theaters. Let’s not waste any time and take a look at these
magnificent and lavish home theater setups...
12) Pirate-themed Home Theater
What happens when a hardcore Pirates of the Caribbean fan visits
Disneyland? He goes home and builds a home theater just like a movie set from
Pirates of the Caribbean. That is exactly what Paul Konold has done; he
converted his home theater into an all new experience room. The home theater has
its arched walls painted with murals from the Disney “Pirates” experience. The
entire project is a DIY, with Paul spending about $30,000 to make it a
resounding success. More
here.
11) Titanic home theater
A Tennessee couple docked a Titanic replica in their high-end home theater.
The 20-by-14-foot theater comes equipped with a custom-made 120-inch screen and
Tru Audio surround-sound speakers entrenched in the room’s pillars and ceiling.
The ceiling is actually a flamboyant dome that flaunts 1,230 fiber optic light
strands to enrich you with a night-sky-like experience. More
here.
10) Indiana Jones-themed home theater
A small number of torches, an idol and a little technology helped turn this
Indiana Jones-themed room into theater quality. Although the setup doesn’t tout
very impressive AV gear, it does feature the Nazi-loving monkey from the
original Raiders of the Lost Ark, a gold idol, a 1/2 scale ark from
Raiders, and replicas from Last Crusade, such as the Grail, and a set including
an Indy-ish jacket, hat, whip and torches. The A/V equipment includes Lutron’s
Grafik Eye system for theater lighting. It has a big screen, NEC’s HT1000
projector and custom painting. Prop replicas from the Indiana Jones movies are
there throughout this modded home theater. More
here.
9) Cyberdyne Cinema home theater
Here comes a Terminator-inspired home theater setup dubbed Cyberdyne Cinema.
Darren Mortenson, the fellow behind the incredible theater setup, has designed
it to look like a sci-fi set, which features variety of pieces from both sci-fi
and horror film genres. Most of the equipment is placed on glass shelving within
the recessed A/V shelving at the front of the theater, which gets obscured when
the gargantuan 159-inch Da-Lite screen is activated. Other than the Terminator
connection, the room also features a life-sized Darth Vader, letters from Viggo
Mortensen (Aragon from the The Lord of the Rings trilogy), and other
memorabilia. More
here.
8) Italian-styled Golden home theater
This Italian-styled Golden home theater was commissioned by Kim Banducci and
custom installed by Future Home of Los Angeles, California. Banducci, without
any prior knowledge of interior designing, planned all of her home’s interiors
from top to bottom. Attention has been given to every single detail of this
elegant private screening room outside of Los Angeles. She reincarnated the
memories of her Italian honeymoon, grand villas and duomos while designing the
ceiling of bronze, brown, taupe and gold. The looks of the custom theater are so
simplistic with its monochromatic color palette and minimalist add-ons. No word
on how much money was put into the whole project, but the upshot is really a
classic. More
here.
7) Star Trek Home Theater
Fantastic details and designs! This anonymous owner seems to be one big
sci-fi buff. The owners originally thought of having a traditional home theater,
but when Jay Miller, president of Acoustic Innovations, noticed that their
client was a collector of vintage video games, he came up with one neat idea.
The upshot was a theater, bar and ready room, measuring a total of 70-by-22
feet. Jeff Hoover, dream maker and president of Audio Advisors, said that the
sci-fi theater has motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects,
and a Red Alert button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller.More
here.
6) Batcave Theater
This is for the Batman fans. The client in the case of the Batcave Home
Theater was a retired naturalist. The Batcave theater features 8 motorized black
leather recliner, Stewart Filmscreen 110″ Electriscreen, Sony G90 Projector,
Pioneer DV79 DVD Player, Crestron STX-1700 Control System, Crestron STX-1700
Control System, and a horde of other high-tech equipment. More
here.
5) Nautilus home theater
The Nautilus home theater was created to bear a resemblance to the interior
of the submarine of the same name from Jules Verne’s classic novel “Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” To avoid simply copying from the 1954 Disney
adaptation, Dallas-based architect Michael Malone worked himself on Verne’s
original vision of Victorian opulence. Working in tandem with custom integration
specialist Audio by Design, the Nautilus Theater is fully automated using a
custom AMX control system. More here.
4) Five-in-One home theater
This one is a state-of-the-art home theater built by builder Aaron Vitale of
Vital Building & Enterprises in his own home. The striking feature is a
35-by-45-foot theater space that rocks a large 144-inch Draper screen that
fetches video from a high-definition Sharp projector capable of 720p and 1080i
resolution. Two Paradigm Signature S8 tower speakers and two Paradigm 15-inch
subwoofers can be spotted behind the fabric grilles and to the sides of plasma
screens. Interestingly, there is not a rack of power amplifiers, but just one
B&K AVR507 S2 audio/video receiver that pumps out 150 watts per channel. The
cost of all this flawless gadgetry is nearly $100,000. More
here.
3) Goldmund’s million-dollar high-tech home theater
A Goldmund home theater is not about gold and crystals, but craftsmanship.
Their equipment shares simplistic European styling. Let’s take a look at what
Mark Rosen’s ultra-luxe home theater is composed of. His luxe system includes a
Mimesis 24 Universal Preamplifier, Eidos 36D Universal Player, four Telos 2500
Universal Mono Amplifier, Epilogue 1 Satellite Speaker Pair, Epilogue 2 Woofer
Section Pair, Epilogue 1&2 Frame Assembly, Logos 1 Active Speaker Pair,
Logos Foot Stand Pair, Goldmund Speaker Cable(x4), Goldmund Power Cords(x8), and
Lineal Digital Audio Cable (x7). The total system cost arrives at a whopping
$497,093. All of Goldmund’s ingeniously engineered audio components are made in
Geneva labs. More
here.
2) In-house Cinema
The gaudy setup at a house in Austin, Texas, touts 24-karat gold gilding
details, hand embroidered fabric seats and genuine antique candle holders. The
magnificent CAT/MBX speaker system hides behind fabric grilles chosen to pass
sound well and to complement the decor. They have used the Crestron touchscreen
to bring down the lights and fire up the home theater system. The theater hosts
an amazing set of 24 12-inch subwoofers. The main equipment cabinet is concealed
behind a set of curtains in the back right corner and stores the brains of the
home theater system - the multi-room audio system, and the home automation
system-five racks of gear. The cost of all this unblemished gadgetry sits at a
cool $3.4 million. More
here.
1) $6 Million Home Theater from Jeremy Kipnis
The music engineer, producer, classical music lover and now the creator of a
gigantic home theater system, Jeremy Kipnis sure knows his entertainment. His
latest home entertainment offering is not only filthy posh, it’s actually quite
a bargain for $6 million. The list of key components is so long that it gets
hard to describe each and every one. In short, the Jeremy Kipnis’ home theater
looks to be the Big Daddy of custom home theater setups. More
here.