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Matrix Theater

Matrix Theater Wins Cedia’s Best Home Theater Level V Award

RPG Home Theater dealer Genesis Audio was approached by a client who requested a home theater based on the movie The Matrix, starring Keanu Reaves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss. Genesis president Bill Anderson and interior designer Lezlie Trujillo worked together combining aesthetics and technology to create the winning entry for Cedia’s Electronic Lifestyles Award for Best Home Theater Level V: over $900,000.

This theater, which was built as an addition to the original home, is 33 feet deep, 19 feet wide and 11 feet high. To capture the concept, Trujillo studied The Matrix, making copious notes about the movie’s setting and visual theme. She settled on a color scheme primarily made up of greens and blacks to complement the technology that was installed, creating an industrial, futuristic effect.

Project manager Tom Liebich and programmers Frank Moctezuma and Kevin Dry, who comprised the Genesis team—integrated a Runco DTV-1101 video projector that projects onto a 4-way screen by Stewart Filmscreen. Faroudja DVP-5000 video processor and Escient Power Play DVD management system complete the video system highlights. The audio system in this theater consists of a Revel surround sound speaker system powered by eight Linn Klimax mono-block power amplifiers. RPG Home Theater acoustical products enable the systems to achieve optimum performance.

All of the acoustical products are concealed behind a stretch fabric system. The low frequency acoustical response of the Matrix Theater is controlled with RPG Modex Modules. Modex is fully tested in RPG’s 24’ long, 7 ton low frequency impedance tube, one of only a handful in North America. For diffusion, RPG’s cost-effective Class A QRD® Formedffusor was used. To provide reflection control without excessive damping, that occurs with purely absorptive wall treatment, RPG’s unique diffsorptive binary amplitude Home Theater Panel was specified.

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