Why is Home Cinema like baking a cake?

You need the best possible ingredients
(We talk more about the ingredients in What Does a Home Cinema Cost)

You need to plan things out properly and take your time

You'll need trusted and proven recipes, and good tools

It’s ideal if you’ve done this before, and know what you’re doing

It’s a mixture of art and science - follow the science to make it work, but the measure is how it makes you feel

Great cakes are usually a modification of a previous successful cake

If you ignore the rules and add ingredients at random, you will get unpredictable results 

And of course you need to whack the whole thing in the oven for thirty minutes at Gas Mark 4