Home Cinema Awards

Starlight Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2021 – Case Study

Starlight Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2021 – Case Study

The owners of this home were looking for a cinema that would light up the night but would not go ‘bump’ in the night. That is, they wanted a booming sound system and a starry-lit ceiling that would not wake the kids. The design of the air-conditioning system was a major key in making this a reality and required a sharp attention to detail because even a single power point not sealed correctly would halve the sound isolation performance.

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Metropolis Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2021 – Case Study

Metropolis Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2021 – Case Study

The odds were stacked high against Wavetrain Cinemas for this home theatre installation. There was no air conditioning in the room, a noisy exhaust fan was ducted right outside, and the ceiling height was just 2400mm high with several concrete beams that made it feel even smaller. To add to that, the sole inspiration photo these clients had was from Wavetrain’s previous Art Nouveau cinema integration with 3.2m ceilings.

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Phoenix Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2019 – Case Study

Phoenix Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2019 – Case Study

This home cinema that had actually won a CEDIA Award many years ago, but over time, technological advances had all but made the room completely obsolete. For example: the room had no subwoofers — no low-end frequencies

Additionally, the space was to be used for both surround-sound movie viewing as well as two-channel (traditional stereo) listening. The client had upgraded the projector at some point, but the aspect ratios didn’t match the original screen: The client was viewing letterboxed movies.  Sound treatments weren’t up to par, either, and absorption and diffusion need to be added…

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Arcadia Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2019 – Case Study

Arcadia Cinema – CEDIA Awards 2019 – Case Study

This retrofit project that converted an existing double garage under the client’s house into a reference-quality, dedicated cinema. The space had to remain accessible from the street.

The owner also wanted to incorporate a couple of arcade machines into a separate bar area that was part of the project.

Wavetrain really took control here, designing and documenting all work for the project, including architectural drawings, interior design, HVAC and ventilation, acoustic engineering — everything…

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‘Wonderwall Cinema’ Wins Gold Award

‘Wonderwall Cinema’ Wins Gold Award

We were particularly impressed this year by a challenging project delivered with great success… It combines two projection systems on the one screen – firstly a high-level 4K home cinema projector for the delivery of movies, but also a second system using a commercial projector fitted with a short-throw lens in order to achieve an image across the entire width and height of the room, to create an ‘art wall’, a full seven-metre-wide feature wall to show projected art.

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