Wimbledon, Surrey Hill, England, UK · 2023
With its latest installation, Guildford-based integrator, Surrey Hills Home Cinemas has created an exceptional cinematic experience within a beautifully renovated contemporary home in Wimbledon Village. Built on the image power and finesse from the brilliance of Barco’s Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) compliant Freya+ 4K laser projector, featuring the latest in native 4K DLP chipsets from Texas Instruments and the acclaimed Barco Alchemy ICMP (Integrated Cinema Media Processor).
Installed on an XL Side Mirror Mount to save space in the cinema’s rear projection and rack room, the Freya+ offers great contrast and a wider colour gamut at 13,500 ANSI Lumens. Surrey Hills Home Cinemas have fitted a Display Technologies Dynamic 2TB masking screen, measuring 4300mm wide and CAT-S sound diffusing and absorbing panels for acoustic treatment.
The audio is provided by Meridian Audio’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP) loudspeakers in a High-Power Array (HPA), a Meridian patented technology, CAT-S acoustic treatment and a Trinnov Altitude 32 processor.
The client had long aspired to own a premium home cinema and wanted a space that could serve multiple purposes. The room needed to perform equally well for action movies and for more subtle content such as classical music performances. This required careful consideration of acoustics, seating comfort, and system performance. The challenge was to design a room that could adapt to different types of content while consistently delivering a high-quality listening and viewing experience.
Having longed for their own premium quality home cinema for 40 years, the client took the opportunity to build this dream room in a newly formed basement space on the property. Surrey Hills Home Cinemas were briefed to construct a cinema where the family could indulge their passion for action movies but equally find a comfortable place where they could relax and lose themselves in classical music performance.
“This was our chance to build the ultimate home cinema and listening room for a client who’d always yearned for a magical, immersive experience,” says Elliot Hicks from Surrey Hill Home Cinemas. “We knew the space would be used to enjoy a wide variety of content and needed to be able to perform to the highest standard, whether the family were watching Spielberg’s ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ or listening to a Chopin piano recital. Whatever the selection, our job was to place them at the heart of the experience with the best seats in the house.”
The completed home cinema is presented as a space that successfully combines cinematic impact with musical fidelity. The room supports immersive movie viewing as well as detailed audio playback for music, reflecting the client’s long-standing ambitions. The integration of high-performance projection, calibrated acoustics, and comfortable seating results in a private cinema environment designed for regular use. Overall, the project delivers a dedicated room where different forms of entertainment can be enjoyed at a consistently high level.
You can read more about this project here:
Meridian Audio: https://meridian-audio.com/projects/surrey-hills-cinemas-wimbledon/
Essentialinstall.com: https://essentialinstall.com/case-studies/wimbledons-ace-home-cinema-thanks-dbms-winning-combination/
