Home Theater Calculator is a free online tool for finding the best layout for a home theater or studio system.
The Home Theater Calculator offers an interactive room AV layout plan that you can use to calculate ideal distances for screen placement, speaker placement (channelα of 2.0 or 5.0) and sound reflections. The free program uses official SMPTE and THX guidelines to help you find the best sofa and equipment placement distances for your room.
Home Theater Calculator uses a 3D design environment and offers you a virtual room. Unfortunately it uses foot dimensions, but we imagine you can convert the measures from the SI European system to American feet. Roughly 1 meter equals 3,3 feet.
You can set custom dimensions of your room in legs and then use the different positions of your machines and the sofa and it will show you if these are the best. Once you have submitted your room information, simply use the sliders to create the perfect measurements.
The program is an open tool code and you can run it locally on your computer. Alternatively, you can use from here.
Way of use:
The first thing you need to do is determine the dimensions of your room. It uses legs as a unit, so determine the length and width.
Now, you set the parameters for the speakers and the display. Here you basically need to specify the screen diagonal, the ratio dimensions and the speaker channels (2.0 or 5.0). As you specify these parameters, the devices in the array will be ready for customization.
You can either use the sliders to adjust the distance of the sofa from the TV or the speakers from the back wall. Alternatively, you can use the drag-drop to move the speakers and sofa directly on the diagram. Keep adjusting the distances until you get THX Recommended or SMPTE Recommended in the “Field of View”.
Once you have it, it means that you have calculated the perfect layout and then you can note the dimensions for the distance between the wall and the TV and set up the home cinema in your room correctly.
On the main site, there are detailed video instructions and texts, from which you can read for advanced use.
