Use Standard Wood Construction
We show you how to use standard 2"x6" wood studs, plus 3/4" plywood decking and your own carpet to create quality theater risers that are very affordable to build on site. By using 2"x6" studs, you can easily create a 7" high riser with the plywood and carpet on top. For multiple tier risers, simply create a large lower deck and then add a smaller upper row riser on top of it to create the upper level, or upper levels, of the platform.
Always Build as Free-Standing
We make the case for always building a free-standing wood platform. This helps insure that the riser does not sonically react to being coupled with walls, plus gives you the ability to make small positional adjustments of the platform in the room to insure that the seating has the proper placement (or "Feng Shui") in your room. Having the platform built free-standing also allows you to easily re-carpet the riser if you ever change the carpet in the room. This also allows you to remove the riser and easily "re-purpose" the room, in case you decide to locate your home theater elsewhere in your home.
Bass Trap Option
We explain how to turn your riser into a sophisticated "bass trap" to even out the bass frequency response in your room - something people pay up to $1,000, if not more for - simply by filling the platform with affordable standard wall insulation and drilling a certain hole pattern in the top plate. This costs so little, yet really improves the sound in your room. It also makes the platform feel much more solid when you walk on it, as you don't hear your footsteps reverberate inside of the hollow platform. Also, a hollow riser becomes an unwanted speaker box in your room, adversely affecting sound, with our deadened riser design effectively eliminating this unwanted hollow airspace inside the platform.
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