Noise control products prevent virtually any noise from entering or leaving this home theater.

Homeowners who need to get away from the outside world can nestle inside their homes. Homeowners who need to get away from their homes can simply step out into the outside world. Homeowners who need to get away from both … Well, that's a bit more difficult.

The solution, at least for one client of Columbus, Ohio-based system designer Progressive Audio, is a home theater room that virtually blocks sound and vibration from either entering or leaving the room. The client asked Progressive Audio to construct a home theater in his unfinished basement making sure that the room was acoustically isolated from the living space above.

Progressive Audio systems specialist Steve Buila installed Kinetics noise control products as the room was being constructed. The acoustical treatments reduce the height of the room, but the client attests that the sound isolation is "fantastic."

Buila says the noise control products can be fairly tricky to install. "It's a fine balance between having enough isolation and enough ceiling height," he says. While the noise control products are relatively inexpensive, the job is rather labor-intensive and requires a degree of skill, he adds.

Buila installed Kinetics products on all four walls, but focused on the ceiling since the only rooms adjacent to the home theater are above it. The result around the entire room is a unique, almost movie house look. Buila says that's part of the appeal. "It's an escape within the house," he says, explaining that this client likes the idea that a room acoustically isolated from the rest of the house has a completely different look.