--- title: "Platinum Home Theaters — Home Automation & Home Media | Houzz" canonical_html_url: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-automation-and-home-media/platinum-home-theaters-pfvwus-pf~1637974087 markdown_url: https://www.houzz.com/md/professionals/pf~1637974087.md entity_type: LocalBusiness business_name: "Platinum Home Theaters" category: ["Home Automation & Home Media"] image: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/8fd30dff07ab8daf_1536-w400-h400-b0-p0--.jpg address: "La Grange Park, Illinois 60526, United States" latitude: 41.8318 longitude: -87.874 phone: "(708) 296-3267" website: http://platinumhometheaters.com/ rating: 5 review_count: 2 followers: 3 last_updated: 2026-08-13 --- # Platinum Home Theaters Original Houzz profile: [Platinum Home Theaters](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-automation-and-home-media/platinum-home-theaters-pfvwus-pf~1637974087) ## Professional summary - **Primary category:** Home Automation & Home Media - **Location:** La Grange Park, IL - **Serves:** Chicago, Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and Northern Indiana - **Houzz rating:** 5.0 out of 5 (2 reviews) ## About Platinum Home Theaters was formed in December, 2005, out of a realization that Home Theater had become an essential element in all fine homes, yet, the home theater business had become a dizzying maze of complex, ever-changing technology choices and misinformation. Home Theater ‘superstores’ are involved only to the point of selling the brands of equipment they carry, with no attention--no interest--in the people who will be using the equipment, the room itself, acoustic science, sight lines, let alone addressing the array of decor possibilities that are available in today’s burgeoning home theater industry. Consultants are desperately needed to navigate all the various perplexing elements in the pursuit of home theater enjoyment. We knew we could bring expertise and excellence to those busy clients who have no time to create a home theater --only precious little time to enjoy it. Platinum Home Theaters seizes the challenge of bringing the best in technology to the home owner, working within their budget for the optimum results...creating Home Theaters which become the favorite room in the house, thrilling spaces for family time, as well as grand entertaining of extended family and friends. Our Chief Designer, Jim Addie, brings over 41 years of engineering expertise to every Platinum project. His engineering specialties are: custom equipment design, acoustic design and calibration, and system integration. Since 2006, Jim has turned his attention to creating home theater environments, believing his long career and background have made him singly qualified to bring all the elements of excellence in engineering to the home market. He is still active as an engineering consultant in the broadcast industry. He remains the "Engineer in charge of Excellence". Platinum Home Theaters not only brings excellent work partners, such as electrical, HVAC and construction contractors that we have come to respect and chosen to work with us, we also have longtime association with Tomlinson Holman, (creator of THX Theater Sound Technology) as our consultant partner. Mr. Holman is renowned in the audio industry for his decades of research, and our Platinum Families benefit from this very special association. ### Services Provided - • VRX Motion Sim • Home Theater • Remote Control • Installations • Whole House Audio-Video • 2 Channel and Headphones • Acoustics ### Areas Served - Chicago - Northern Illinois - Southern Wisconsin and Northern Indiana ### Typical Job Cost $2,000 - 50,000 ## Business Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Business Name | Platinum Home Theaters | | Address | La Grange Park, Illinois 60526, United States | | Phone | (708) 296-3267 | | Website | http://platinumhometheaters.com/ | | Followers on Houzz | 3 | **Social profiles:** - X (Twitter) — https://twitter.com/PHTheaters - Blog — http://www.platinumhometheaters.com/blog/ ## Contact - **Houzz profile:** [Platinum Home Theaters](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-automation-and-home-media/platinum-home-theaters-pfvwus-pf~1637974087) - **Website:** http://platinumhometheaters.com/ - **Phone:** (708) 296-3267 ## Credentials **Certifications & Awards** - THX Teck II ## Reviews **Overall rating: 5.0 out of 5 — 2 reviews** ### All 2 reviews **★★★★★ — Bill Caruso, Sept. 2016** > Jim was incredibly knowledgeable and understanding of what I was trying to accomplish with space and design limitations. He was and has been always responsive to requests for assistance with issues or concerns and desired upgrades and changes. Also, he's just a really nice and honest guy. > > see http://www.platinumhometheaters.com/homte\_theater12.html for photos. **★★★★★ — vpinelli, Aug. 2016** > I hired Jim Addie at Platinum Theaters to advise me on audio/visual, HVAC control, networking and lighting control equipment to be purchased. We were remolding an existing 25 year old 2400 sq ft house into a 3800 sq ft house. Jim spent many hours going over the possible control options available and how they could work together. He and his crew then installed all the systems and tested them. He willingly worked with some of my existing equipment trying to keep the cost down. I am currently building a house out of state and am using many of the things in the new house that Jim turned me on to in my current house. > Jim was fair and willing to work with me and answer all my questions so that I understood what was happening and what my options were. ## Selected projects - [Acoustic](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/acoustic-pj-vj~1968558) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 2 - [Two Channel Stereo and Headphones](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/two-channel-stereo-and-headphones-pj-vj~1968563) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 6 - [Remote Controls](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/remote-controls-pj-vj~1968498) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 1 - [Home Theaters](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/home-theaters-pj-vj~1968496) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 3 [See all 4 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-automation-and-home-media/platinum-home-theaters-pfvwus-pf~1637974087) ## Ideabooks - [info458632's ideas](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/71469016/list/info458632-s-ideas) — 1 idea [See all 1 ideabook](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/users/info458632) --- *Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-08-13.*