If you have a long room with plenty of space between the front and back wall, a false wall application may work best for you. This is where you allocate 2' - 3' feet behind the audio transparent projection screen to place your main speakers and subs. This area behind the audio transparent screen wall can be acoustically treated with wall treatments and bass traps in the corners. This is the best method to use if you already own floorstanding or bookshlef speakers.

A common practice is to treat the entire wall behind the CineWeave™ HD projection screen with a 1" - 2" black cotton or black rigid fiberglass and use bass traps in the corners. These audio treatments will acoustically help treat your room while being completely hidden behind the false screen wall. All these benefits plus placing the speakers behind the screen to improve the front sound-stage of your theater.

Building a false wall is inexpensive and very easy. It requires about $75 in 2" x 4"s, black paint and some Guilford of Maine acoustically transparent fabric to cover the false wall. Basically the wall is built with 2" x 4" studs like a normal constructed wall in your house except you do not need to drywall it. Most framing methods have a window opening behind the screen area to allow access to the speakers by removing the screen. Other methods also include an access point at the ends of the false wall to get behind the screen wall. Some methods utilize removable panels to access the speaker area as well.

Once your false wall is framed out, you paint it flat black so the light colored studs do not show through the Guilford of Main fabric that will be covering the false wall. Why no drywall? Because the idea is to make the entire false wall acoustically transparent to utilize the acoustical treatments behind it.

The amount of space you need behind the false wall is up to you and what is going behind it. Some people commonly use 24" to accommodate the subs, speakers, bass traps, etc. Other people with bigger rooms can make this area bigger to what they feel necessary for their application. 18" - 24" is usually a good starting point.

If you would like some more info on how to build your false wall, please feel free to contact us.

We attached some renders below showing our different screens utilized on a false wall.

When your room is not long enough to utilize the false wall method above, another application to place your speakers behind the screen is using In-Wall speakers. In-Wall speakers are becoming a more commonly used method now due to higher quality In-Walls being produced. Using In-Wall speakers several years ago proved to be a huge loss in audio quality and were mostly never considered in Home Theater applications but all this has changed. With a nice set of In-Wall speakers, you can hang your SmX CineWeave™ HD screen right in front of them.

The beauty of the CineWeave™ HD is that you don't need to worry about having your speakers a certain minimum distance from the screen surface like conventional micro-perforated screens. This allows you to mount your screen on the same wall the In-Walls are installed on. Best of all, you can still acoustically treat the wall behind the screen with an acoustical wall treatment. In-Wall speakers can be used with our ProLine, ProCurv and any of our masking systems utilizing the CineWeave™ HD screen surface.