Matthew J Poes
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I need to come up with a theater seat solution that can allow for optimal placement, maximum seating, and not be too expensive.
Ok so I currently own 2 Berkline Theater seats with brown top grain leather. This model is long out of production and is nearly impossible to find a match to. I could sell these, but I wouldn't get much for them, being old and a little scratched up. For that reason I think I want to keep them.
The theater was designed to meet ITU placement standards of the speakers in the first row of seats, not the riser. The room is too narrow to allow optimal speaker placement that would also allow two rows of eats to fit within the appropriate placement. However, currently I have the theater reclines sitting on the riser in the less than optimal location.
Replacing all of my theater seats with ones that equal the quality of what I have would be just around $6000 (two rows of three seats). Replacing them with a nice but slightly lesser quality seat would be around $4000. There are a number of upgrades I still want to make to my theater, as my personal equipment is pretty old at this point, mostly coming from 2008-2010. The idea of spending $4000-$6000 on seats when I could use that same money for a new processor, new projector, etc. is hard to swallow.
95% of the time that I use my theater it is just me. My wife isn't that into it and my 3 year old doesn't have the patience to sit for movies, nor does she like to sit on the seats. She prefers pillows on the floor.
So the problem? What can I do that will look classy and put together (given what I've invested in the room itself), that is optimal for sound, comfortable to sit in, and allows me to have a friend or neighbor over for a money and have a place to sit. Currently I have some folding chairs, but that isn't a real option.
Do you all agree that spending $6000 on chairs when I could be using that money for equipment upgrades does not make sense, given my usage?
One idea was to buy very different chairs that would not match but rather go with the current theater chairs. Some inexpensive side chairs or arm chairs. While I can do this, they are still priced high enough that I would be able to consider very cheap theater seats.
I also think it makes sense to move the theater seats off the riser. I did it because I built the riser and wanted to use it, but I don't have a use for it at the moment given that I don't have 2 rows of chairs. Since it puts the chairs in the wrong location, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use it. Since I keep finding myself sitting in a folding chair instead of my comfy reclines to critically listen or watch movies, I think I've had my limit.
Any creative thoughts would be appreciated.
Ok so I currently own 2 Berkline Theater seats with brown top grain leather. This model is long out of production and is nearly impossible to find a match to. I could sell these, but I wouldn't get much for them, being old and a little scratched up. For that reason I think I want to keep them.
The theater was designed to meet ITU placement standards of the speakers in the first row of seats, not the riser. The room is too narrow to allow optimal speaker placement that would also allow two rows of eats to fit within the appropriate placement. However, currently I have the theater reclines sitting on the riser in the less than optimal location.
Replacing all of my theater seats with ones that equal the quality of what I have would be just around $6000 (two rows of three seats). Replacing them with a nice but slightly lesser quality seat would be around $4000. There are a number of upgrades I still want to make to my theater, as my personal equipment is pretty old at this point, mostly coming from 2008-2010. The idea of spending $4000-$6000 on seats when I could use that same money for a new processor, new projector, etc. is hard to swallow.
95% of the time that I use my theater it is just me. My wife isn't that into it and my 3 year old doesn't have the patience to sit for movies, nor does she like to sit on the seats. She prefers pillows on the floor.
So the problem? What can I do that will look classy and put together (given what I've invested in the room itself), that is optimal for sound, comfortable to sit in, and allows me to have a friend or neighbor over for a money and have a place to sit. Currently I have some folding chairs, but that isn't a real option.
Do you all agree that spending $6000 on chairs when I could be using that money for equipment upgrades does not make sense, given my usage?
One idea was to buy very different chairs that would not match but rather go with the current theater chairs. Some inexpensive side chairs or arm chairs. While I can do this, they are still priced high enough that I would be able to consider very cheap theater seats.
I also think it makes sense to move the theater seats off the riser. I did it because I built the riser and wanted to use it, but I don't have a use for it at the moment given that I don't have 2 rows of chairs. Since it puts the chairs in the wrong location, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use it. Since I keep finding myself sitting in a folding chair instead of my comfy reclines to critically listen or watch movies, I think I've had my limit.
Any creative thoughts would be appreciated.
