We’re a big fan of unique hidden doors and cool home theaters, and the Home Theater Ticket Booth Door from Creative Building Resources (CBR) combines the best of both worlds. CBR’s elaborate hidden door features a programmable, scrolling LED sign built into the top of the frame, while the interior of the hidden door functions like your traditional ticket booth, complete with recessed lighting. On the front of the ticket booth, a detailed wood inlay displays the high level of craftsmanship involved in constructing this hidden passageway, although we’d recommend ditching the frosted comedy and tragedy faces on the front ticket booth glass. For those who intend to staff the ticket booth, or at least fill it with a costume-draped dummy, the interior is accessed through a full sized cabinet door at the back. As this hidden door is a custom creation from CBR, we’d recommend ordering yours to match your own home theater decor.

Available through: CBR

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Electronic House posted pictures this morning of a luxury home theater install performed as a collaboration between Carmel, Indiana based Tri-Phase Technologies and an unnamed interior designer for a family basement. Despite some technical challenges, the installer and designer worked together to create a theater that is, in our opinion, extremely functional and luxurious at the same time. The Tri-Phase installed system is mid-priced, but more importantly low-tech and easy to operate. And the theater’s recessed, rounded central couch makes watching a movie more of a group activity than would rows of individual theater chairs. Along the back wall, the design team worked to integrate a bar counter in view of the theater screen, as well as a nearby concession room, where family members and guests can go to select their own snacks. We’re a fan of the installer and designer’s smart design, which should serve as a good model for future functional family theaters. Follow the jump for two more images.

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What kind of speakers do your get for 40 grand? In Verity’s top-of-the-line eXR speaker lineup, you’ll get a pair of the company’s new Sarastro II speakers, priced at half the cost of Verity’s Lohengrin II flagship model. Unfortunately, the $40,000 price tag only includes a standard Italian lacquer finish. If you want another veneer, you’ll have to pony up more cash.

Technical details:

The Sarastro II uses a resonance-free aluminum foil ribbon tweeter, a 6″ midrange, an 11″ woofer, all of which are custom-made and proprietary to Verity. As in all of Verity’s two-piece cabinet designs, the woofer is mounted in a rear-firing configuration.

The Sarastro II’s frequency response is rated at 20Hz - 60kHz, with 93dB/W/m sensitivity. Power handling is claimed from 18 watts to “unlimited.”

Available through: Verity Audio [via AudioJunkies]

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Symbio Design, based in the Czech Republic, has developed a home theater system fit for the cleanest contemporary surroundings. The system contains three uniquely shaper speakers: the Alfa loudspeaker pictured above, the EggO subwoofer (pictured in image 1 below the jump), and the Beta loudspeaker (pictured in image 2). Each speaker throws off a different, complementary frequency. We would like to give you more technical specs, but they’ve unfortunately been lost in translation. We do know, however, that the speakers are only available upon request and that a wide variety of color choices are available.

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How do you make the most of your home theater space? A Tennessee family handled this challenge by installing a floor that rotates the front seats 180 degrees to face the second row, giving them a more natural environment for entertaining.

The 16-foot rotating circular floor is powered by four motors and controlled via remote. Also controlled by remote is the theater door, which folds up from the floor in 12 sections and resembles a Chinese hand fan.

Casa Cinema led the theater design, and Visual Concepts took care of the installation. Both companies are based in Tennessee.

[via Electronic House]

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