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Discipline 04
Custom Home Theaters
Private cinemas engineered to CEDIA RP22 standards — immersive audio, reference-grade projection, bespoke acoustic design, every surface treated.
What we solve
Most home theaters sound like living rooms with a large screen in them.
A great room will never perform as a cinema. The hard surfaces that make it livable — glass, stone, hardwood, smooth drywall — also make it acoustically ruinous. Bass builds up in the corners. Dialogue smears off the walls. Every seat except the center one gets a different mix.
And yet the instinct is always to 'add' — a bigger display, a more expensive receiver, another pair of speakers. The physics of a room cannot be fixed with more equipment. It must be addressed as a room first, a theater second.
How we work
Engineered to CEDIA RP22 — before the screen is specified.
Every MERIDIAN theater begins with a 3D model of the room and a CEDIA RP22 performance target. We simulate reverberation time, direct-to-reverberant ratio, standing wave behavior, and first-reflection paths for every seat before a wall is built. The target is not 'good enough' — it is the published CEDIA reference curve, measurable after installation.
Only after the acoustic engineering is fixed do we specify projection and sound. That sequence — room first, system second — is why our theaters perform at +/- 1.5dB across every seat at every frequency, and why a client in seat 7 hears the same mix as a client in seat 1.
See the work
A purpose-built cinema, every seat a reference seat.
Hover any marker to see the product, the reasoning, and the engineering that places it there.
Tiered private cinema with acoustic fabric panels on every wall, three rows of reclining leather seating rising stadium-style, a projected film filling a curved screen, warm cove lighting and illuminated step markers.
Twelve seats. Nine speakers. One room, measured flat to 20Hz.
Project: Manhattan Penthouse Cinema · Architect: Withheld by request
Why it matters
Reference, every seat.
A Dolby Atmos mix contains spatial cues — a helicopter tracking overhead, rain arriving from the north wall, a whispered line placed six inches behind your right ear. Those cues exist in the mix. In most home theaters, they are lost to the room before they reach your seat.
Our acoustic envelope preserves them. The final calibration pass is a measurement exercise, not an opinion exercise. We commission with a Audiomatica Clio system and leave you with a signed certificate documenting the theater's measured response against reference. It is the only form of warranty that matters.
Deliverables
What you receive
Acoustic engineering
3D room simulation, CEDIA RP22 target, and structural recommendations delivered before framing.
Reference calibration
Final pass with calibrated microphone array, documented against CEDIA reference curves.
Isolation envelope
Decoupled walls, floated floor, mass-loaded doors — your cinema exists acoustically alone in the home.
Projection to standard
SMPTE-aligned gain-matched display, bench-tested at our studio before install.
Content ingest
Kaleidescape Strato or bespoke library server — reference-grade local playback for the films you care about.
The MERIDIAN position
Your home is a target. We treat it like one.
The modern luxury home runs 200+ connected devices. Most are secured with nothing but the default password their vendor shipped. We take cybersecurity seriously in a way that residential integrators historically have not — and we do it as a permanent service, not a one-time install.
Read the networking briefZero-trust by default
Every device authenticated at layer 2, every traffic flow firewalled and logged. Four VLANs, no shared broadcast domain, explicit allow-list.
24/7 monitored SOC
An off-site security operations center watches your network every hour of every day. Anomaly detection, DNS reputation, real-person escalation in under 15 minutes.
Audited every quarter
Written compliance report — firmware status, traffic anomalies, capacity planning — reviewed with you every ninety days. Nothing drifts, nothing is assumed.
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