This sweet home theater setup has a special sort of resonance for me, and for anyone else who's lived through the sheer mammoth crippling unpleasantness that is a flooded basement. When a couple found that their sump pumps had failed--sump pumps are those really valuable things that keep water that can seep up through concrete floors ...

For those that have basements in their home, they can present the ideal location for a home theater. After all, they are often unfinished, so you have a blank canvas with which to work, they are seperated from the rest of the home so you can have the volume turned up without bothering the rest ...