HuskerOmaha's Basement Theater ++ - Page 9

As fast as you're burning through this, you need to come over here so I can put you to work!

Looking good!

Great pics.
For your rack area will you have some way to block the light coming out from all the electronics?

Mike

Wow! Getting really close to show time

As far as the projector mounting goes I might suggest getting a white power cord with a 90 degree bend at the plug and it should pretty much disappear..

How did you mount that LCD bracket to your SHO10 center? Did you have to drill holes in your new speakers

Will be interested to hear what you think of the sub once dialed in, I haven't heard one yet. Oh, and I guess I have the same question as Mike re: the av rack next to the screen, and how you'll tame the lights to ensure it doesn't throw a glow on the left side of the screen. A solid door, or smoked glass?

Do you have a lot of background in home improvement projects?

Everything looks very well done.

An affordable DIY option for bar countertop would be to use large tiles. I used 18 inch porcelan tiles that were finished to look like polished marble and matched the floor in my theater kitchen. If you get ones big enough to cover the depth then you only have seams in one direction. I used hardwood chair rail trim to cover the front and stained it to match my cabinets & other woodwork. I placed the tiles very close together to minimize the look of grout lines. Came out as good or better than I hoped for a low $$ alternative to granite. Excuse the cds on the counter. The tall cabinet on the end is for cd storage but these weren't filed away yet.

Your screen wall doesn't have a lot of room for traps, but you could make some tri-corner traps in the top corners - wall-wall-ceiling intersection. You could also do something at the screen wall floor intersection, but not sure that that wouldn't look odd. What about the rear of the room, did you post pics of that I don't recall.

Do you have a riser? If so, that could be a trap.

I like the idea of flipping the center - maybe also elevate the L & R - not sure if you were planning on keeping them on top of the subs, or mount high like the center, or if the outlets up high are for that.

I've seen granite tiles used, and they look nice, and much cheaper than a slab.

For Audyssey, try doing full auto first, double check that you're set to small LCR and 80 Hz.

BTW, what does the cabinet behind the right side of the screen lead to?

Before worrying about EQ for the subs, make sure you've got the best location for them. Play some bass heavy music and try each of the seating locations. Does the bass sound right from there, or lacking somewhat, or boomy (favors some frequencies over others)?

In my room fir example, I can tell straight away that the room is accentuating one LF area a lot - feels like a certain frequency is "droning", dominates other LF content. Also, you'll probably notice that bass feels much stronger as you walk to the rear corners of the room.

Since you have two subs, I'd start with just one turned on, and do the bass crawl: place the sub temporarily in your main seating position, and then crawl around to various potential sub locations and see where it sounds best to you. Once you've found the best spot, move the sub there and you should have similar response back at the seating position.

For the second sub, repeat (keeping the first sub on and in it's best position); or just try a position symmetrical to the first sub.

For EQ - you'll want to measure using REW mic'ed from your seating position at ear level - then generate some FR and waterfall charts using log scale, and post them, we can see what you're dealing with. Could just luck out and need nothing, who knows.

Run Audyssey full auto, then try out diff sub locations (crawl), you'll need to do Audyssey again if the subs moved.

You're making some good progress. I personally don't think changing the center speaker will make any noticeable difference from the listening position. I would spend time on completing things and leave that for a later time. I have the same Dayton amp and it never even gets warm. I wouldn't worry about its location in the rack.

I can stop by after work tomorrow and we can run through some things and check your levels. You are off tomorrow, right? Just because you run Audyssey doesn't mean that the bass management in your receiver is set correctly, either.

Now you're just making me thirsty.. I have to warn you though.. the coors light is what kept slowing down my project.

Was wondering who all is going to be stopping by Saturday for a little HT action I thought I would pick up a couple new Blurays to check out

I hope to come. I checked with my wife this evening and she has some pictures planned for 2 pm on Saturday. I'm trying to get the time moved down.

Hey, personally I'm glad that the first runs had some scratches and nicks - those scratches and nicks saved me over $1000!

desertdome

If you can make it that would be great. How long will pictures take ?