Bespoke IMAX Home Cinema Room – Dubai

High End IMAX Home Cinema Installation in Dubai, UAE

This IMAX Home Cinema Room is one of the best in the world. Designed for a client with an uncompromising approach to home cinema who is lucky enough to have both the space and the budget to indulge in a room of this calibre. The room itself is over 11m long and 7m wide with a head height of 4m, enough space to comfortably seat 18 in absolute comfort. The room is packed with technology — all matched to the IMAX Enhanced specifications — and the room comes with a price tag of around £750,000. This is a room fit for Royalty.

IMAX Enhanced — Room Design

IMAX Enhanced encompasses more than just cinema audio. The certification covers video too, to ensure the very best cinematic experience. In this room we have used a Sony VPL-VW5000 — a range-topping projector with huge amounts of brightness and contrast — perfect for filling the enormous 6.4m wide projector screen. The audio side of the experience revolves around 48 Artcoustic Performance A6 speakers and 5 Artcoustic Performance P6 subwoofers arranged in a 13.2.14 speaker pattern. Three subwoofers are configured to provide full range audio for the left, centre and right front channels, with the remaining two providing traditional low bass channels. The height channels are split between front height channels, ceiling height effects and “voice of god” speakers. The array nature of the Artcoustic Performance A6 ensures the same world class experience regardless of where in the cinema the client sits.

Trinnov Audio — IMAX Enhanced Compatible

A sound system of this scale needs serious decoding and calibration to deliver sonic perfection. We specified the top of the range Trinnov Altitude 32 processor with four Trinnov Amplitude amplifiers. During setup, a highly intelligent microphone maps the location of each speaker in the room and uses this knowledge to create a stunning immersive audio experience. The same flexibility allows us to utilise three subwoofers as low bass channels for the front channels whilst retaining two as traditional subwoofer channels — a configuration that is simply not possible on lesser processors.

Cinema Fabric Walls & Acoustic Treatments

A room of this level absolutely must have stretched fabric walls. Not only does it allow us to hide all the speakers, it also allows us to install acoustic treatments in exactly the right locations to ensure the audio system performs at its absolute best. The client has the pick of some of the world’s finest fabrics to ensure a rich interior. This room is so well insulated you could literally hear a pin drop during the quiet moments of a film.

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Home Cinema Seating

A room such as this needs to hold viewers in absolute comfort for hours at a time. Our go-to seating for a room of this scale is provided by Cineak. Fully motorised seats allow clients to adjust backrests, footrests and headrests to their optimal position before the film starts. These seats feature presets so when the client shuts the room down, all seats revert to their resting position — ensuring a tidy room for the next occasion. For this room we chose a lush velvet for the seats with leather armrests and dark mahogany bases. Each seat has its own cup holder.

Delivering this Cinema Room

Delivering a successful room like this is 90% planning and design. We design every element of the system before we set foot on site — producing 3D renders of the finished space so clients can visualise the room before work begins. We have teams of carpenters, electricians and interior designers ready to go and we work worldwide. There are very few home cinema companies capable of delivering a room such as this. Contact us if you are one of the lucky few who can accommodate one of these in your home.

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The Reference Project

When Custom Controls describes the upper end of what a home cinema installation can achieve, this is the project we describe. An IMAX Enhanced certified cinema room in Dubai — 11 metres long, 7 metres wide, 4 metres high — housing 18 seats, a 6.4 metre wide screen, a Sony VPL-VW5000 4K laser projector and an Artcoustic 13.2.14 Dolby Atmos system with five subwoofers and 48 speakers.

The IMAX Enhanced certification is not a branding exercise. It requires specific minimum standards for screen size relative to room dimensions, projector brightness, and a minimum 13.2.14 Atmos configuration. This room exceeds those minimums. The Trinnov Altitude 32 processor and four Trinnov Amplitude amplifiers calibrate the 48-speaker array with a precision that ensures the same world-class experience from every one of the 18 seats — including the back row, which in a lesser installation is always the compromise position.

This project won Custom Controls the Crestron Integration Award for Best International Project — one of five consecutive Crestron Integration Award wins that earned the company its Dealer of Distinction status. It remains the installation against which all other Custom Controls cinema rooms are measured.

Project Details

• Location: Dubai, UAE
• Certification: IMAX Enhanced
• Room dimensions: 11m x 7m x 4m
• Screen width: 6.4m
• Projection: Sony VPL-VW5000 4K laser
• Audio: Artcoustic 13.2.14 — 48 Performance A6 speakers, 5 Performance P6 subwoofers
• Processing: Trinnov Altitude 32 + 4x Trinnov Amplitude
• Seating: 18 — Cineak velvet with leather armrests
• Award: Crestron Integration Award — Best International Project
• Investment: c. £750,000

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