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The Ballroom Designing The Ballroom posed unique challenges. Because it is not a dedicated theater, the motorized projector and screen had to be easily controllable and unobtrusive when the theater is not in use. The hand-painted walls and ceiling had to be taken into account when designing where the retractable projector and screen could go, and constrained their size. Further, the amount of ambient light in the room made it difficult to create a sufficiently bright picture on the screen. Finally, the sheer size of the room (2,500 square feet) was a challenge to dominate acoustically but not aesthetically. A Vidikron LCD Projector, with a brightness of 2000 ANSI lumens and a very small size, was the natural choice to solve the brightness and size issues. It is lowered via motorized lift through a small, nearly invisible cutout in the ceiling. Sound in the room is provided by a pair of B&W Nautilus 802 speakers, a pair of Velodyne subwoofers, and several pairs of in-wall loudspeakers painted to aesthetically disappear into the walls. The ensemble is controlled from a single hand-held Crestron touchscreen remote control. To the left of the room's entrance, hidden in the first photo, is the custom-designed full bar which also houses the electronics that power the cavernous room. Two McIntosh MC352 350-watt power amplifiers and a McIntosh MX132 Audio Video Preamplifier provide the muscle to power all the loudspeakers, while a high-performance California Audio Labs 5-disc CD changer supplies music at the highest level of audio excellence. Previous Theater Next Theater   This website and all contents copyright © Audiodesign, Inc. 1955 Black Rock Turnpike Fairfield, Connecticut USA 06432 Phone: 203.336.4401 Fax: 203.335.7026 ira@audiodesign.net