The Cinemar Home Theater Construction Thread - Page 82

You bet Tony. Glad you made it through the thread.

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I think it worked out well and everyone who has been in there thought the players were larger than life. I haven't watched any TV in there, but have watched a few games.

I do have the Seymour AV AT masking panels. They are pretty cool and use magnets to attach to their frame.

I think it's plenty big.

If you can sneak a cat5 near an outlet you could use a VGA balun to supply the video feed.

I did attempt to remove the TCL logo using GOOF OFF, but no luck. Maybe I just try rubbing alcohol.

ScAndal,

You're welcome.

I know I did give some responses to what I would have done differently earlier in this thread.

One thing that comes to mind now is that I would have just sound proofed the theater foyer area too since I end up leaving the door to the theater open during games or family events where people are coming / going.

The paint is holding up great. You do see foot prints or finger prints on the steps and door from time to time. I've found a damp sponge works good for cleaning them up.

I haven't seen any issues with the painted MDF. The BIN did a great job of protecting and sealing the MDF.

Hope this helps.

Hi Moggie.

Thanks very much. Your theater was certainly a motivator for me to take on much of the work myself. So I must thank you for that. Especially when it came to tackling the oak stairs and bullnose.

Hopefully both our theaters will give back to the community for years to come.

I guess we'll never know if it's for real or not.

Hi Tony,

I guess I haven't noticed a lot of dust in there. There's not a lot of flat surfaces for dust to collect on and if it's sitting on the carpet I haven't noticed it.

I only run the fan/cool/heat when we're in the room so there's not alot of movement to push dust around.

I do see quite a bit of dust in other areas of our home since the build, so perhaps the black just helps hide it.

The central vac also helps in reducing the amount of dust since it all goes directly into the garage.

I definitely see a lot of dust near my AV racks though.

Yeah. I know there are wireless options out there, but I don't have any personal experience with any of them. But that's a really good idea for someone who hasn't preplanned for it.

As of now, I haven't done anything beyond what you've seen. So it would show the same info for the time in between me selecting the next movie. Which for me isn't a big deal since the monitor is off unless I'm entertaining.

I could easily create another scene that it could switch to and display rotating posters. Skys the limit!

For those interested. I've been picking away at the index slowly but surely.

This thread is now indexed through Jan 29th, 2012. I'll continue to index it bit by bit.

The index is in the first post of this thread:
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1208912/the-cinemar-home-theater-construction-thread

I was gonna move it to the top when I finished the index.

Hi Tom,

I think it sounds good. But I'm not sure that I think it sounds phenomenal.

It could just be that the bass is still lacking or that the room is too dead. Don't get me wrong, it sounds better than anything I've experienced in my own personal home. But until I have a chance to play around with the next phase of room measurements, I won't be able to tell you if I can make it sound better.

I bought the denim from Vyron Corporation. The spec's I believe read 1" thick but it turned out to be 3/4". If you look in my thread, you'll see how I built the panels that the denim fit into using 3/4" thick pine boards.

The acoustic panels sit right on top of the 3/4" MDF on the lower third of the wall.

So I attempted to remove the TCL logo from my LED Movie Poster display. Unfortunately it dulled the shine on the front but it did remove the logo. It looks like they have a TCL indent any ways stamped in. So I probably should have left it there. It's not terrible, but just enough for it to bother me. I'll probably have to build a frame now for the front. I was thining of using 1/4" thick mdf and then layering it with some type of bondo so by the end it will look glossly and shiny. I avoided the bondo earlier in the build, but may now need to tackle it. I'm open to other ideas as well.

I also took my M&K MX350 sub out from the center of the room and was about to perform a sub crawl. I noticed that the magnet underneath is pulling away. I'll probably need to try to get that glued back in again. I thought maybe if I moved the sub to another area in the room I might get a little more punch in the money seat.

While moving my center chair back into position, I managed to put a small cut into the adjoining leather chair right near the arm rest. I put a little hot glue on the tear to prevent it from being opened up further.

So not a good night for me.

Back to the sub position, I moved it into the front right corner cabinet since that seemed to sound pretty good during the sub crawl.

However, during playback of some clips, the bass seemed rather localized and you could tell it was coming from the front right corner.

So at the end of it all, I moved it back to the center. Perhaps having two subs in bother corners would even things out.

Great idea. But the dullness goes right up to the edge of the screen. Which you wouldn't want to put the decal right up to.

Funny you should say that. I had tried Meguiar's ScratchX and I think it helped a little. Do you think their polish would do better?

The TCL black indent wouldn't bother me at all. Since it's still black on black and subtle.

Thanks guys for all the suggestions.

I pulled out my car cleaning supplies and tried some other products I had laying around. It did look a bit better after I tried a few of them. I think to the point that I can now live with it. I'd still like to try some of the meguiars PlastX (although it says its for clear plastic). Otherwise they have a polish that's also designed for darker colors so maybe that will do the trick. I'll need to stop into Autozone one of these days when I'm in the area. At this point, I'd rather not turn it into a large project of disassembling the bezel and everything for fear of just creating bigger problems.

But if I had to spray paint the frame, I'd probably end up going that route so I don't have to worry about masking.

This forum is great. Thanks guys for all the ideas and suggestions.