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r/hometheater

Home Theater. For audio visual enthusiasts who want to bring an immersive experience into their homes. Founded 2010 · 1.1M members

1.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.9K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.1Mmembers
8.9Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
1.4Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

41% 22% 18% 17%
Text 41% Gallery 22% Question 18% Image 17% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion - Equipment 309 Tech Support 299 Purchasing US 243 Install/Placement 210 Purchasing EUROPE 55 Showcase - Dedicated Space 52 Discussion - Entertainment 44 Showcase - Multipurpose Space 40 Purchasing CAN 32 Purchasing Other 20

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

"Finished" my dedicated 7.7.4 Home Theater!

↑ 8.9K 💬 928 gallery 2024

My new home theater!

↑ 6.3K 💬 910 gallery 2025

SPACE SHIP!

↑ 5.9K 💬 296 gallery 2026

Mission Accomplished [Feb 2024] - Long time lurker, First time poster.

↑ 5.7K 💬 470 gallery 2026

I built my dream ‘80s Mom & Pop Video “Store” & Home Theater in my Basement over 4 years and many late-nights. 13,000+ working VHS, Laserdisc and mor…

↑ 5.1K 💬 422 gallery 2022

My Home Theater (10 Years of Planning)!

↑ 4.8K 💬 503 gallery 2020

I asked this sub if I should go with 100”. You guys did not disappoint.

↑ 3.6K 💬 491 image 2025

Trying to make amends!

↑ 3.5K 💬 163 image 2025

Imagine my surprise

↑ 3.2K 💬 193 gallery 2025

Whole basement movie theater experience

↑ 3.1K 💬 305 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/hometheater, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/hometheater?
r/hometheater ("Home Theater") describes itself this way: For audio visual enthusiasts who want to bring an immersive experience into their homes. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/hometheater have?
r/hometheater has about 1.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 8.9K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/hometheater?
""Finished" my dedicated 7.7.4 Home Theater!" reached 8.9K upvotes and 928 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/hometheater.
What subreddits are similar to r/hometheater?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/Archaeology, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics.
What kind of posts do best on r/hometheater?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are text posts and 22% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/hometheater?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 00:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (991 avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (905 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/hometheater?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/hometheater has 2.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 724 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/hometheater, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.