MASTERING SOUND AND VISION · DIGITAL BUNDLE

BUILDING A HOME CINEMA

This isn’t a single book — it’s the complete path. A sample of what’s actually inside:

7 volumes · 209 chapters · everything from room acoustics to a finished, calibrated cinema

Designing the Room

Optimising a Home Cinema · A Modest Living-Room Cinema · A Multi-Seat Family Cinema · A Dedicated Reference Cinema

Picture and Projection

Is Projection Right for the Room? · HDR on a Projector · Throw Distance, Lens Shift and Installation Geometry

Sound and Calibration

Building the Surround and Height Field · The Complete Cinema Calibration · A Small Dolby Atmos Room

When Something’s Actually Wrong

Blooming, Halos and Local-Dimming Errors · The “Soap-Opera Effect” · Convergence and Panel Alignment

Knowing When You’re Done

Knowing When the Cinema Is Finished


A Real Page, Not a Promise

“Is Projection Right for the Room?” isn’t just a chapter title. Here’s an actual page from inside it — the eight most common projection sales claims, and exactly why each one doesn’t hold up on its own:

Figure 17-4: a table of eight common projection sales claims and why each does not follow, from Volume X, The Picture Equipment Guide

From Volume X, The Picture Equipment Guide — shown exactly as it appears in the book.

More Pages, Not Just One

That’s one illustration from one page. Here’s a fuller sample, drawn from across this bundle:

This is the standard running through every volume in this bundle: specific, checkable, and willing to say a common sales claim doesn’t survive contact with a real room — rather than repeating it back to you as reassurance.