World-Class Trinnov Home Cinema Installation — Ghana, Africa

One of the Best Private Home Cinema Rooms in the World

This Trinnov home cinema installation in Ghana is one of the finest private cinema rooms ever designed and delivered by Custom Controls. The 5.5m × 12m room is one of a handful in the world at its level. A full Trinnov audio system — comprising an Amplitude32 pre-amplifier, Magnitude32 room equaliser and active crossover — distributes audio to eight Amplitude8 channel amplifiers. The result is a 34-channel surround system with a further 15 height channels and 7 subwoofers. Every element of the room was designed from the ground up for acoustic performance, ensuring the Artcoustic array and subwoofer combination performs at its absolute best.

4.5m Screen and Sony 4K Laser Projection

The 4.5m acoustically transparent screen conceals a front stage comprising five Artcoustic array channels — Wide Left, Left, Centre, Right and Wide Right — split into two arrays with four Artcoustic P6 subwoofers providing bass. This approach delivers each front channel as a truly full-range system, ensuring bass is presented naturally at the correct spatial position rather than from a single central point. The Sony VPL-VW5000 delivers a vivid 4K HDR image across the full width of the screen, with brightness and contrast that fills the room convincingly at any seating position. Sources include a Kaleidescape Strato movie server, Apple TVs and satellite TV feeds.

Trinnov Processing — Why This Room Demanded It

A 34.7.15 speaker configuration operating at the level this room demands is beyond any conventional processor. The Trinnov system was the only meaningful choice — managing the amplification, room correction and channel routing for a full seven Amplitude8 amplifiers and forty-six individual speaker outputs. Trinnov’s Optimizer calibration ensures that every seat in the 12-person auditorium delivers an identical audio experience regardless of position. The combination of full-range front channels, six subwoofers at the front stage, seven height channels and five surround channels creates a soundstage that is genuinely three-dimensional and physically immersive.

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Seating and Interior Design

The room seats 12 across three rows. The front row uses Cineak Intimo day beds — relaxed, low-slung and ideal for a family with young children who will grow up using this room. The rear rows use Cineak Vedette leather recliners for the formal cinema experience. The Ghanaian Unity sculpture displayed above the equipment rack was proposed by Custom Controls as an integral element of the room design, tying the cinema’s aesthetic to the heritage and culture of the home it sits within. It is not an afterthought — it is the room’s visual centre point, and one of the details that distinguishes this installation as something beyond a specification exercise.

Acoustic Design

The room is treated with acoustically transparent fabric walls throughout, concealing all surround and height speakers from view and managing the reflection and absorption characteristics of the space. An extensive acoustic model was produced before construction began — ensuring that the Trinnov calibration begins with a room that is already acoustically coherent rather than one that the processor has to work against.

Frequently Asked Questions — Ghana Reference Cinema

What does a 34.7.15 speaker configuration mean?
This describes 34 main surround channels, 7 subwoofers and 15 height channels — a configuration that exceeds the channel count of most commercial cinemas, requiring a Trinnov processing system to manage the amplification, room correction and routing for 46 individual speaker outputs.

Why does a room at this scale need Trinnov rather than a conventional AV receiver?
No conventional processor can handle 46 individual speaker outputs at this channel count. Trinnov’s Optimizer calibration also ensures every one of the 12 seats delivers an identical audio experience, which is essential at this scale where seating positions vary significantly across three rows.

How is local culture incorporated into a high-end cinema room design?
In this installation, a Ghanaian Unity sculpture was proposed by Custom Controls as the room’s visual centrepiece above the equipment rack, tying the cinema’s aesthetic directly to the heritage of the home it sits within rather than treating decor as an afterthought.

Project Details

• Location: Ghana, West Africa
• Room dimensions: 5.5m × 12m
• Screen width: 4.5m (acoustically transparent)
• Projection: Sony VPL-VW5000 4K laser
• Audio: Artcoustic 34.7.15 — full Trinnov processing and amplification
• Seating: 12 — Cineak Intimo (front) + Cineak Vedette leather (rear)
• Sources: Kaleidescape Strato, Apple TV, satellite TV

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