Ghana Trinnov Home Cinema Install

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 — an Altitude32 pre-amplifier working with a Magnitude32 room equaliser and active crossover — distributes audio to eight Amplitude8 channel amplifiers, driving 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 of five Artcoustic array channels — Wide Left, Left, Centre, Right and Wide Right — split into two arrays, with Artcoustic subwoofers reinforcing the front channels. This approach delivers each front channel as a truly full-range system, so bass is presented naturally at the correct spatial position rather than from a single central point. Nothing of the front stage is visible: the screen spans the front wall and the speakers sit directly behind it.

The Sony VPL-VW5000 is a native 4K laser projector rated at 5,000 lumens, delivering a vivid 4K HDR image across the full width of the screen. That brightness matters on a 4.5m acoustically transparent screen in a 12m-deep room, where image size and screen material both reduce the light reaching the audience, and it gives an image that fills the room convincingly from every row. Sources include a Kaleidescape Strato movie server, Apple TVs and satellite TV feeds, with Kaleidescape delivering bit-for-bit lossless Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD and DTS:X soundtracks to feed the Trinnov system.

A room at this level draws on every one of our core cinema services, from the initial room design and acoustic model to calibration and the seating layout. The services below formed the foundation of the Ghana project.

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 across eight Amplitude8 amplifiers. The Magnitude32 extends bass management beyond anything a passive crossover can achieve: every channel can be individually split by frequency, with its low frequencies directed to dedicated subwoofer channels, so bass follows the audio around the room rather than collapsing into a single centralised subwoofer.

Calibration uses Trinnov’s Optimizer and its tetrahedral 3D microphone, which maps the position of every speaker to within a centimetre and a degree of arc before applying three-dimensional correction. With 12 seats across three rows, the Optimizer’s multi-position calibration is what gives every seat in the auditorium a consistent audio experience. The combination of full-range front channels, a deep height layer and a fully enveloping surround array creates a soundstage that is genuinely three-dimensional and physically immersive.

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 — while the rear rows use Cineak Vedette leather recliners for the formal cinema experience. As on every cinema we design, the seating was specified as part of the room design rather than selected afterwards, with row positions and heights set to give clear sightlines to the 4.5m screen from every seat.

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 starts with a room that is already acoustically coherent rather than one that the processor has to work against.

The fabric walls follow the construction we use on every cinema: stud work across the treated walls, acoustic fleece in the voids alongside the concealed speakers, our engineered track system and a mineral wool or fibreglass acoustic core behind the stretched fabric. In front of the speakers, an open-weave acoustic cloth is chosen alongside the speaker specification so it doesn’t dull high frequencies on their way into the room. As with every system we install, calibration is a mandatory part of the handover, with levels, distances, crossovers and equalisation set in the finished room.

International Cinema Projects

Custom Controls has been delivering high-end home cinema and smart home installations internationally since the late 1990s, with active and completed projects across the Middle East, Europe and Africa. We have worked across West Africa on large-scale residential installations, and the Ghana cinema is the most ambitious project in our Trinnov case study portfolio. Clients commission us abroad for the same reason they do in the UK: a design and installation standard that very few companies, anywhere in the world, can match. More on our international projects →

Frequently Asked Questions — Ghana Reference Cinema

What does a 34.7.15 speaker configuration mean?
It describes 34 main channels, 7 subwoofers and 15 height channels — a configuration that exceeds the channel count of most commercial cinemas and is beyond the capability of any other residential audio processor, which is why the room is built around a full Trinnov processing system.

Why does a room at this scale need Trinnov rather than a conventional AV receiver?
No conventional processor can handle this channel count. Trinnov’s Optimizer calibration also measures and corrects for every seat, 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.

Which projector and screen does the Ghana cinema use?
A Sony VPL-VW5000 native 4K laser projector fills a 4.5m acoustically transparent screen, which conceals the five-channel Artcoustic front stage: Wide Left, Left, Centre, Right and Wide Right.

What seating does the room have?
The room seats 12 across three rows: Cineak Intimo day beds on the front row for relaxed family viewing, and Cineak Vedette leather recliners on the rear rows for the formal cinema experience.

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Project Gallery

The room design from the rear and from the front. The first view looks past the recliners towards the 4.5m screen, with fabric wall panels, wall lights, cove lighting and a star ceiling running the length of the room. The second looks back from the screen across the Cineak day beds and recliners to the Unity sculpture above the equipment rack, with the projector above it.