We are about to turn this room into the most technologically advanced Next Level Cinema and gaming room that you have probably ever seen. I'm literally about to get a call in 8 minutes, and on that call, we actually need to lock in and buy

the products that we might well be using for the rest of our lives, and then we will set it up, and we'll experience it together for the first time. I cannot tell you how excited I am. So when I first walked into this room, here's how I

thought this was going to go. I thought, "Oh, cool, the room already has such good noise isolation. We're going to be able to get an awesome projector for like £5,000. Speakers will probably be another £4,000, and then the blank screen maybe another £10,000 total, and it's going to

be awesome." But wow, have we seen some crazy stuff you can do to take it further. The first of which is this is going to be a gaming room just as much as it is a cinema room. So we spent the first couple of days just deciding

exactly which gaming consoles we wanted to fill it with, adding in extra TVs and finding a way to hide them in the room, and then realizing that we already hit our initial budget with that alone. But things only started to get really crazy when we headed to a place called Pulse

Cinemas to find out what was possible with the audio and the projector parts of this dream Cinema room, and it was super cool, cuz these guys had actually built three different tiers of Cinema, and each level introduced new layers of technology. But even their tier one

Cinema system which by the way started at £30,000 had some very cool things going on like one problem that you need to solve if you're going for a high-end Cinema is you've got a massive screen in front of you right but then where do the

speakers go yeah you can put them on the sides but we very quickly realized that you're going to get the best sound if at least some of those speakers are directly in front of you and facing you so learning number one is that you can't

just stick like a whiteboard on your wall as your screen the best screens are made of woven fabric that is acoustically transparent so it doesn't interfere with the sound at all so that you can put some of your speakers behind it but there is a lot more that we've

realized you can do and that we're going to try to do so that's going to diffuse the sound so it's going to reflect the sound back into the room if you just put absorption into a room it would sound like I know if you ever been to an anechoic chamber but it would just sound horrible oh dear so yes turns out you actually don't just want absorption like we have here if you're trying to build a perfect Cinema then you have to actually balance out audio absorption reflection and diffusion to make sure that the

sound is traveling in the right way around your room the only remaining thing to do then was to settle into these Uber plush reclining chairs to actually see what this £3,000 investment results in my goodness heard a string instrument so deep and that's partly because this was

a 7.2.4 surround sound system. You actually see these numbers thrown around quite a lot in this world, so just so you know, the first number means how many main speakers you have. The second is the number of subwoofers you have, which

handle your deep bass notes. Most casual home cinemas will have one, but these guys went for two. And then the third number is the number of ceiling speakers, if any, just because those can add a whole extra dimension. So with that, I was so curious what on Earth could tier 2 do.

Well, this was a £60,000 room, and as well as the obvious projector and speaker quality upgrade, the other immediately obvious thing is you can't see any of the speakers. This room is showing how if you use the same acoustically transparent material as we previously

had just for the screen, for your walls too, you can actually create a completely next-level bonkers sound setup in which you see no speakers. And that's so cool, but also it's at this sort of what I would call very high price here that you

start to come into another conundrum. So most home cinemas will need some sort of power amplifier as the brains to process all the audio and video signals to give you the ports to connect up to audio speakers and to provide the power needed to drive them. But when you get to the

high end, you start to realize that you're going to get better performance if you split this functionality into multiple boxes. So having a completely separate box dedicated just to processing and upgrading your audio signals and then another just for upgrading your video signals. And that's

what they've introduced with this setup, so we tested it on any carrier in the sector. Please respond, seeing of my bones, it's actually quite hard to describe to you how ridiculously impressive this second setup was. Like my legs were actually shaking when the bass notes hit. Okay, so

tier three, oh wow. Wo, wo, wo. Now as you can probably tell, I was trying to keep my cool cuz you know, you never want to get too excited around people trying to sell you stuff, but my God, I mean this might just be the prettiest room I've ever seen.

full stop. But then the guy introduced me to what this room is really about. It's actually more to do with the Troff, it's an in-house developed system to give you the ultimate bass experience in what it gives you is the seat to seat consistency of bass. I spent about 30

full minutes trying to get to the bottom of what this Trinnov actually is. And long story short, this cinema system, which by the way is priced at £300,000, has four powerful subwoofers at the front. Those subwoofers fire out a wave of bass

anytime there's a low note in what you're watching or playing, and then the back of the cinema is lined with four more of the exact same subwoofers. And this is where it gets interesting because these are called the absorbing array, which basically sends out the same

signal that the front is sending out, but just inverted in order to cancel that sound out and then slightly delayed by the amount of time that it takes the front sound to reach the back of the room. And so Trinnov is basically the processor that allows super advanced

stuff like that to be calculated but why? Well, essentially to make sure that bass doesn't reverberate, it booms, you feel it in your soul, and then it cuts to dead silence again to give you the maximum possible audio dynamic range, the

ability for one moment to be explosive and the next to be a whisper, so we had to listen to this absolutely bonkers tier 3 setup, and yeah, I had never experienced anything like that before, the sound was just bonkers, like it felt like a sphere

around my head and the music was swimming in my brain, but no, obviously we didn't just see that and then buy that, I mean we've spent a lot of time in showrooms since, we've seen screens that can actually extend to match the aspect

ratio of your movie or game, we've seen audio processing boxes taller than I am that actually have eyes for some reason, and we've seen seating, my friends, seating so, so comfortable that oh my God, I swear at some points I was physically unable to pay any attention to what the

sales guy was telling me, and so this is what I'm thinking right now, we found a company called Meridian Audio who's going to do our speakers out of everything we tried, they were the, we're going to end up going for, I can't quite believe I'm saying

this, but 21 speakers and 12 subwoofers, and then to finish the whole thing off, we managed to find not just an acoustically transparent screen, but also an acoustically transparent fabric that's going to cover every single wall, so you don't see a single speaker and

Projector-wise, I initially came into this thinking I was going to get a Sony or a JVC, you know, the consumer-facing brands. But through our travels to these various showrooms, we found this company called Barco, and they usually deal directly with businesses, so I'

never heard of them, but the brightness of those projectors versus the JVCs, it's actually a big difference. Maybe because they're designed for bigger commercial cinemas and the seating, we decided it has to be the masterminds that made this thing right here, and

turns out that is a company called Movia, who seem to have a whole load of different base designs and materials, but then they're also completely modular, so you can actually configure the exact arrangement of those designs. So this guy's going to call in about a minute.

The price really adds up when you start adding arrays of speakers. Hi Aon, how you doing? So we've had a look through the quote, we're happy to go ahead with it. That's brilliant. That's great news. Even small private cinemas that are run by

film clubs and stuff like that, very few of them get to this sort of level. It's going to be probably one of the very best private cinemas in this country, and we're going to be playing Smash on it. We're going to be plugging a Nintendo

Switch into it. Yeah, wow. Now I thought from the point of placing that order, this would be a one-month job. Yet again, foolish ambition. It actually took 4 months for a few reasons. We had to tear down every single existing panel on the walls. We had to

fit four ceiling speakers, 12 subwoofers, and 17 wall speakers, which, to be honest, the only crazier thing than hearing that number is seeing it. Remember, every one of these speakers contains multiple speaker cones. Then we had to refit new panels on top in a very carefully

controlled combination of super high-quality noise isolation pads with the very best sound diffusion panels we could find, all painted black and then finished with our acoustically transparent black fabric going around the whole room. And then finally, because the team who was building it had to do a

lot of testing, constantly tweaking the arrangement of things using this multi-array microphone to check the results at each stage until it was just perfect. And that is now inside this room is one of the greatest cinema rooms and gaming rooms ever created, and I haven't

even tested it yet. We're about to do it together on camera, and I am about to pee myself with excitement. [Music] Welcome. So I'm going to take you around the room like this, and it's just going to keep building, starting with the

console cabinet. Weirdly, this is one of my proudest achievements ever. We started out with a plain cutout in the wall, and we quickly realized two issues: one, that all the consoles are different heights, so you had just a ton of waste space. But the bigger issue was cables. We had like

30 different cables trailing all over the place because I am obsessive to an annoying level. I didn't just want the consoles to be powered on, I wanted to create a space where every single controller of every console is also always plugged in, always fully charged.

and so with a bunch of carefully placed plants, false walls and shelves we have actually pulled that off. You basically can't see a cable. So what hardware did we go for? Well, from left to right you can see we've got four PlayStation 5 Slims. There's actually a very good

reason for that which I'm getting to, but what I want to show you now is one of the key problems that we were trying to avoid, which is what console does this controller connect to? Then I remembered that Sony themselves actually sell alternate colored plates and then

realized that they also sell controllers that matched to the color of those plates. So yeah, one thing led to another and now we have four color matched PS5s, which is just surreal. There's the PlayStation Portal here, which again does actually charge here. It's like secretly

connected magnetically to a very stealthy cable behind it. This is a console that's had a little bit of a character arc for me. When it first released, I thought wow, that's a very overpriced empty piece of hardware, but as soon as you have really

good stable internet and also you have a specific use case for it in mind, it can be an absolute game changer, like it is in this set. This thing plays a pivotal role in what we're trying to do here. Then this is a 1 TB Xbox Series X. This

is basically just for Halo. I've been obsessed with Halo ever since I was like 10 years old and since Halo already has four player split screen on one console, it'd be absolutely silly to get four Xboxes. Also, I absolutely love these Razer chargers we've got for all the

Xbox and PlayStation remotes, we went through a lot of different ones. Ones with RGB lighting, ones that tried to match the designs of the consoles. Nothing beats the look, the feel, and the quality of these. And then, of course, we have the Nintendo Switch corner. And as

silly as it does feel to have this little tablet that's like a third of the power of a modern-day phone, Nintendo makes great games. And the fact that on just one of these things, you can have eight people playing multiplayer games at 60 frames per second will

forever be an embarrassment to everything on that side. You gotta love the optimization. And then in here, this has always been a dream of mine to do, so for a long time, we've used these knockoff Nintendo Switch Pro controllers. They're very customizable, they're fun to

look at, but they're a little cheap, and you can kind of tell. And somehow, three of the four of those controllers I use have managed to develop some form of joystick drift. Not this time. I wanted to do everything in this house to the highest possible standard. We wanted to

have the best controllers with also the best customization, so every single one of these Switch controllers is an official Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, but custom painted by Colorware. And I cannot believe how good it's turned out. Oh yeah, and the final thing in this console cabinet seems really boring, but

is actually so cool. This is an HDMI Matrix. So this connects every single output device, like a PlayStation, an Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, with every single input device in this room. Because yes, there are multiple screens here, so every single device in this entire room is allocated one of these numbers, and then

You just tap these buttons to decide which screen those devices can display their image on. Now, up here we've got two side cabinets, so these were not here when we first got the house. We got them made because there's a few extra things that we wanted to add to this room.

Starting with the tech shelf now. To most people, this is probably going to look like a dumpster fire, but I'm hoping given that you're watching this video you will see this for the arch piece that it is. So these two are making sure that every device has the fastest

internet and the fastest data transfer. Like everything, where possible is wired, not wireless. Then you got a layer of plugs and this isn't fun, but I think it's really important when you're building a room like this where you might be powering something that's

sitting on the other side of it that you just label them so you know what's what. Now underneath that is something called the Bluesound Node and the only reason that we have that is just so that we can use our phones to play music through

this ridiculous Meridian sound system which on one hand yes seems like a really strange thing to have to do in 2024 and the era of Sonos speakers which have that capability built inside of them already, but basically you'll find when you get to really high-end sound

systems, everything is separate, partly because they work in slightly old-fashioned ways, but mostly because splitting up the functionality of each device allows you to get devices that do each function at the absolute maximum, so there's no bottlenecks. And then below that we've got the Lumagen and the

The reason we have this box, in very simple terms, is it makes things look better. We've got so many different devices in this room, all connected to the same displays. You know, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, there's an Apple TV box behind here as well. The Lumagen takes in

all of these inputs and just makes sure that when they come out of it, they are corrected in every way possible. And then we've got this absolute unit of a box, the Trinnov Audio. Like you've seen, this thing's like a supercomputer designed

with the sole purpose of audio processing. And there is something really cool that we've managed to pull off in this room thanks to the power of this box, but we're getting there. And then this, there's a freezer, it freezes things. Wow. Anyway, I am so happy with how this thing came

together. So this is a PC, it's designed by PC Specialist specifically for virtual reality. They have this very fun and very dangerous configurator when you're picking what you want, but eventually we decided on this absolutely bonkers specification. So RTX 4090

graphics card, 24 core Intel Core i9 up to 6 GHz, 8 terabytes of M.2 solid-state storage, 64 GB of RAM, and the entire thing is also water cooled just to keep it as quiet as possible. And when the thing arrived, that was all the stuff we

expected. What we didn't expect is just how handsome the thing is. We originally allocated the top half of that shelving cabinet just to store the thing. We took it out the box, saw how the black perfectly matched the background, the wood paneling here perfectly matched the

sofas, so we just decided it has to be here. This just makes sense. This is actually the first time I get to try it with headset controllers. Oh, by the way, this is actually a really cool time to show you the Control 4 Halo touch, so

technically all of these are remotes for something in this Cinema room. This is the only one we actually need. Every single one of these normal remotes is designed to have one purpose, whereas this remote is connecting to the hardware in the house on a deeper layer

and so I can do basically anything on this, like for example if I click lighting here and then I go into scenes, we have five different lighting modes, each creating a different mood in this room. But the reason I'm showing you this now is if I click this watch button here,

this is every single input device in this entire Cinema room: all the PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and the VR PC. So all I have to do is to tap on that PC button and the PC goes through the HDMI Matrix and starts

displaying on this main screen. This is absolutely insane. So I am streaming right now from the PC, which means you're able to play VR games at a level of graphical fidelity you would not be able to with the headset alone. Oh, and there's

like no latency at all. And then for the headset, it might seem like a little bit of a strange decision why we went for the Meta Quest 3, because you know I was saying we wanted the best of the best for everything in this Cinema room, and

You can get a lot more fancy and a lot more expensive VR headsets than this. There is a whole world of ultra-specialized, extremely cutting-edge headsets, but this is the one that I keep coming back to. Because if all you want to do is game, then they are all worse

than the actually quite simple Meta Quest 3. Mostly because of how much more reliable the software is on this thing. Then you got the sofas, and the reason that I fell in love with this is, as far as the comfort's concerned, you cannot tell this is not a normal sofa.

But it's actually kind of high-tech. So I mentioned before that one of the main perks of this is that it's modular, meaning that each one of these segments is its own piece that you can kind of chop and change to put together like

pieces of Lego. Which means we've managed to get a sofa that perfectly fits the space we wanted, leaving just enough gap on either side. It means we've been able to specifically select the feature set that we want in the armrest. So I just think this is so cool. If you pull this

back, you've got a drinks holder with an RGB configurable light on the inside and a Qi charger for your phone. People are always asking for chargers when they come to your house, so it's tough to describe how much joy it brings me that now I can just say to them, "Stick your

phone in the armrest." But this is the cherry on top. It also means that every single one of these seats has its own three-part movable skeleton underneath. So you reach your hand into this, you can adjust the footrest, you can adjust the headrest, and you can also

with a different button, adjust the depth of the thing and it comes out so far it is almost bed-like, which is just insane considering how compact it is. I'm not exaggerating when I say this thing is hideously expensive for seating, but at

the same time, it is the best movie sofa I've ever experienced. We did end up going for the Barco projector, which has a 5K resolution and you can kind of tell that it's commercial grade by the fact that it has an actual display on

the side so that someone in a viewing area can actually see a preview of what's being projected out the front. Now this is cabinet, this is a simple one but it's no less fun. Basically all of our favorite snacks and we thought that this area here would actually be

really nice to pour yourself a drink in, but since we don't actually have any bottles yet, it is filled with Pringles. Then this is a, well, not so many bridge and the thing that I think is particularly cool here is how it's

integrated. It's quite easy for a white fridge and some cheap snacks to stand out like a sore thumb in a room like this, but the way we've done the paneling and used the same acoustic fabric that we have across the entire cinema room on

this cabinetry as well makes it feel like a part of it. Bean bags, so these are from, whoa, a company called Vetsac and they're about twice as big as I was expecting them to be. The box came into the house and I was thinking, oh that

seems a little small but cute then I opened it and the thing freaking exploded in front of me you then have to leave them out for 48 hours to fluff and here we are I knew we wanted bean bags in this house ever since we did a team

retreat in an Airbnb 2 years ago and that place had swapped out every single sofa with a bean bag and it just it changed the entire vibe it created such a feeling of calm which I loved so the reason why we've got four PS5s here the

reason why we've got an HDMI Matrix half the reason why this room exists is because of this button right here Co-op gaming and while this happens I want to explain to you why I've chosen to use Surfshark VPN for our Cinema room PC so

you probably know how most VPNs work oh my God it's actually working they take your traffic they root it through one of their servers so that all the websites on the other end can see is the details of that server and that's already pretty cool but Surfshark uses Nexus

technology meaning that every one of their servers is connected and that Surfshark can bounce you between all of them on the fly without dropping your connection and that's pretty next level because it means you're even more difficult to track cuz you can have a

new IP address every single time you click a new link and instead of your data being masked through one server your data can be masked through an entire network of servers and you'll get even better speeds because as soon as a faster server opens up you can be routed

through that instead, automatically. And if you go to Surfshark.com/boss, you can now get it at the all-time lowest price ever, $1.99 a month for an unlimited number of users with four extra months for free. Oh my God, I can't, I can't actually believe

this, and they're all on automatically. Just give me a second to take this in. So this is two LG G4 OLED TVs. These things are 55 inches, 4K resolution. The picture quality is amazing, and each one is mounted to by far the most bonkers

mechanism I've ever seen in my life. So this is from a company called Future Automation. It can project the TV down a whole meter, it can swivel in 360 degrees, and it communicates with Control 4, which means that from this remote, I can set the

precise centimeter and angle that this TV is positioned at. Also, each mechanism weighs over 200 kg, so getting those into the ceiling was actually the single hardest part of this entire project. This is it. This is it. Oh my God, this is a dream I've probably had for

the last 5 to 10 years, and today it has finally come true. I can hear bullets all around me. I can see what you guys are up to in my peripheral vision. Every like gunshot has so much weight to it. It's insane. It's done nothing for our

performance. The skill level is incredibly low on this battlefield, and you can hear it behind you. Yeah, you can hear everything, like you actually instantly know where the enemies are. Oh yeah, and you want to know the most bonkers part of this whole thing, because

of that trio of supercomputers sitting in the cabinet, the sound from each person's game can be directed towards the seat that they'll be sitting in, so everyone hears a slightly different mix of audio tailored to what they're noticing on their screen, while still

getting the background from what's happening on everyone else. And this is also where the PS Portal comes in. It connects to the white PS5 for player 4, so even though there's three main screens, we can still do four friends online co-op gaming in the same

game at the same time. Just nuts. And this is the pièce de résistance, so let's say that after gaming I want to watch something. Okay, so you pull up Apple TV, play a trailer, and then there is a mode baked into here because yes, we did go

for a motorized screen. Hit movie. H-ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. It happens so smoothly. I can't believe it. Is that supposed to be scary? The R rating isn't new for me, friend, but it is for Disney. Oh my God. You know the thing that's hardest to

communicate through video is how the sound envelops you in the content. You just feel like, like all these walls, they're actually speakers behind them. You're being blasted from every single angle and it just pulls you in. It's the best sound I've ever heard in any cinema

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Planning and initial budget for a technologically advanced cinema and gaming room.

The goal is to create a state-of-the-art cinema and gaming room.

Initial expectations included good noise isolation, a high-end projector, speakers, and a screen.

The initial budget was significantly exceeded by the gaming setup alone.

The room will be used for both gaming and cinema.

Visiting Pulse Cinemas to explore audio and projector options.

Exploring high-end cinema system options at Pulse Cinemas (tiers 1-3).

Pulse Cinemas offered three tiers of cinema systems with increasing levels of technology.

Tier 1 system (£30,000) highlighted the importance of speaker placement for optimal sound.

Acoustically transparent screens allow for speakers to be placed behind them.

Balancing audio absorption, reflection, and diffusion is crucial for optimal sound.

Tier 1 featured a 7.2.4 surround sound system with two subwoofers.

Explanation of the numbers in surround sound system specifications (e.g., 7.2.4).

Tier 2 system (£60,000) featured hidden speakers using acoustically transparent materials.

High-end systems often use separate boxes for audio and video processing.

Tier 3 system (£300,000) featured the Trinnov system for ultimate bass experience.

Trinnov uses an absorbing array to cancel out bass reverberation.

Exploration of various high-end options for screens, audio processing, and seating.

Meridian Audio speakers (21 speakers and 12 subwoofers) were chosen.

Acoustically transparent fabric will cover all walls.

Barco projector chosen for its brightness.

Movia seating selected for its modularity and comfort.

Installation and completion of the project.

The order was placed, and the installation took four months.

Walls were torn down and refitted with noise isolation and sound diffusion panels.

Installation involved numerous speakers and meticulous testing.

The project involved extensive testing and adjustments to achieve perfect sound.

Showcase of the completed cinema and gaming room.

Tour of the console cabinet, highlighting its design and cable management.

Four color-matched PlayStation 5 consoles are featured.

The PlayStation Portal is showcased, emphasizing its functionality in this setup.

An Xbox Series X is included, mainly for Halo gameplay.

High-quality Razer chargers are used for controllers.

A Nintendo Switch setup is included for multiplayer gaming.

Custom-painted Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers are used.

An HDMI Matrix allows for easy switching between devices and screens.

Side cabinets house networking equipment, power supplies, and audio/video processors.

Wired connections are prioritized for speed and stability.

A Bluesound Node is used for music streaming.

A Lumagen video processor enhances image quality.

A Trinnov Audio processor handles advanced audio processing.

A high-end VR PC is showcased, highlighting its specifications and water cooling.

The PC's design and placement are highlighted.

Control 4 Halo touch system is showcased for controlling various aspects of the room.

The Control 4 system allows for easy switching between input devices.

VR gaming is demonstrated with low latency.

The Meta Quest 3 VR headset is chosen for its reliability and software.

The modular Movia sofas are shown, highlighting their comfort and features.

The sofas feature integrated drinks holders and Qi chargers.

The sofas have adjustable footrests, headrests, and depth.

The Barco projector is showcased, along with its features.

Integrated fridge and snack area are shown.

Large bean bags from Vetsac are showcased.

Four PS5s and an HDMI Matrix are shown for co-op gaming.

Two LG G4 OLED TVs are mounted on Future Automation mechanisms.

The TV mechanisms allow for precise positioning and control.

Testing and final impressions of the setup.

Gaming experience is demonstrated, highlighting the immersive sound.

Individualized audio for each player during co-op gaming.

The PS Portal is used for four-player co-op gaming.

Movie viewing experience is demonstrated, showcasing the motorized screen.

The immersive sound quality is emphasized.

The overall experience is described as the best sound ever heard in a cinema.

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