4K Video Meets 11K Sound
By Steven Castle
Meridian’s 810 Series Projector and McIntosh’s 11,000-watt Reference Home Theater System packs a regal punch in this elaborate theater.

When you enter the lobby of this opulent, $1.5-million home theater, a motion sensor detects your presence and plays Hooray for Hollywood. When it’s Showtime in the regal red theater, the chandelier dims and ascends as two sets of drapes rise and part, and the home theater gear revs up for the show.

That’s just the warm-up, for the real stars here are the reference-level Meridian 4K projector that beams super high-res images onto a 16-foot-wide screen, and the 11,000-watt McIntosh home theater system, with behemoth speakers that hide behind the First Impressions Theme Theatres decor but make their presence known via hundreds of speaker drivers.



The Meridian 810 Series projector uses JVC’s 3-chip D-ILA technology to cast a stunning 4096-by-2400-pixel image onto a Screen Research display. (See sidebar.) You can sit close and still not see any pixilation, says Eduardo Orozco of custom electronics installation firm ISI Automation International in San Antonio, Texas.

The McIntosh Reference Home Theater System was chosen for the company’s lasting quality and design. The seven-speaker array consists of XRT2K front left and right tower speakers that each sport 40 tweeters, 64 midranges and six woofers, plus the XCS2K center channel and XRT1K surround speakers.

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