Most home theater installations start with equipment. Ours start with the room.
The screen, the projector, the speakers, the amplification — all of it performs at a fraction of its capability if the room is wrong. Dimensions, surfaces, seat placement, acoustic treatment, lighting: each variable either adds to the experience or subtracts from it. An engineer's approach to a home theater means measuring first, then designing, then installing.
Pure Sight & Sound has been building theaters in the Poconos for two decades. Ed Kmetz holds a degree in Materials Engineering from Drexel University. When he evaluates a room for a theater, he is measuring the space the way it was designed to be measured.
What Goes Into a Properly Built Home Theater
Room Analysis Before any equipment is specified, we measure the room. Dimensions, construction materials, ceiling height, existing HVAC and electrical, and natural boundary conditions all factor into what the room can do and what it needs. A well-designed theater room performs; a converted room without analysis frequently disappoints.
Acoustic Design Sound behaves according to physics. Bass builds up in corners. Parallel walls create flutter echo. Untreated surfaces cause the sound to arrive at your ears more than once. We design acoustic treatment — absorption, diffusion, and bass management — to give the room a flat, controlled response before the signal chain is even considered.
Equipment Selection We are manufacturer-independent. We specify the projector, screen, amplification, speakers, and subwoofers that perform best in your specific room and at your investment level. We work with leading brands including Sonance, Elan, and Lutron. We do not push a brand because of dealer preference.
Pre-Wire and Rough-In In a new construction project, we run all wire and conduit at the framing stage — speaker cable, HDMI runs, control wire, power — before the walls close. In a retrofit, we assess the cleanest pathways and execute the install with care for your finished surfaces.
Installation Every connection made correctly. Equipment rack built and dressed. Cable management clean throughout. The technical execution is as important to the result as the equipment itself.
Calibration After installation, we calibrate. Display geometry, color, brightness, and contrast are set to the room's specific viewing environment. Speaker levels, distances, and time alignment are measured with test equipment, not estimated by ear. This is the step most installers skip. We consider it mandatory.
Training and Handoff Before we leave, you know how to use the system. Not just the person who followed the install most closely — everyone in the house. The Grandma Guarantee: every family member can operate what we built, without confusion, without a manual.
Dedicated Theater Rooms vs. Media Rooms
Dedicated Theater Rooms A light-controlled, acoustically treated room designed exclusively for the cinema experience. Typically includes a front-projection system (projector + screen), a multi-channel speaker array (5.1 through 9.4.6 Atmos), a riser with custom seating, acoustic panels, and theatrical lighting. This is the room you see in the film. We build these.
Media Rooms A living space — family room, great room, basement — that includes a high-performance display and audio system. The design constraints are different: the room must work for multiple purposes, ambient light is a variable, and the audio system integrates with the room's existing character. We design these differently than dedicated theaters, and we tell you which is appropriate for your space before we specify anything.
New Construction Is the Right Time
If your home is in the planning or framing stage, the conversation about theater infrastructure belongs now — not after the drywall is up. Speaker locations, equipment room sizing, acoustic wall framing, dedicated circuits, projector conduit: all of these are easy at the stud stage and expensive to address in a finished home.
We work with builders and architects at the framing stage to rough in the complete theater infrastructure in a single coordinated pass.
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Home Theater Service in the Poconos
Pure Sight & Sound is based in Stroudsburg, PA. We serve Monroe County, the Pocono lake communities, Pike and Wayne counties, and the surrounding 100-mile radius.
Pure Sight & Sound 603 Little Mayfair Ct, Stroudsburg, PA 18360 (570) 992-2992 Monday–Saturday 9 am–6 pm · Sunday by appointment