My New Home Theater 2.0, Staggered Wall HT. - Page 9

Yay! The HT is officially DONE!! (well, at least for the construction or the "phase I" stage) still need to finish up programming the Insteon scenes to the Harmony.

I'm really really thanks to Big, without him, my HT won't even be remotely close to what it is!

I spent the afternoon cleaning up the HT & the outside basement area. I'll take some pics hopefully next weekend and update the first post with more detail setup.

Btw, we did a quick reading/analysis of the room this morning using Big's Omni mic. I think we both quite happy with the end result. RT60 time is about 27~37ms. The sub & the mains cross very nicely @ 60hz. Bass frequency responses seems pretty good/flat according to Big. But I do have a small dip, -5hz @ 40hz at the MLP. The SVS is running at 20hz mode, and I got some good bump and extension probably from the room itself down to about 18hz. I think I'll try to run it at 16hz mode and see how it goes sometimes in the future. And I'll probably hold off of getting another sub for now too. The only thing is we saw a big dip at 1khz or so regardless where we put the mic at. My main concern was how the acoustic treatment that I put on will interact with the room. Will the room be too "dead" or still not enough (too much reverb). After the measurement, I'm happy to see (and hear) how the "room" sounds.

Now... what should I watch tonight....??

I could try one later.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I just picked up an Emotiva XPA2 amp to power the mains from craiglist yesterday for $500! Received the RSH faceplate from MA this morning and installed it on the rack right before Big came by.



Just finished watching Breaking Dawn 2 (wife's choice, don't ask!) to celebrate this special night! At least I really do like how the ambient/surround sound sounds in the HT!

Thanks. The back of the 2nd row is about a foot or so from the face of the fabric panel.

Thanks. I'll think about hosting a meet if there's enough local interest down the road.
Edited by landshark1 - 3/4/13 at 9:08pm

Thanks guys! IIRC, I think the first ever movie we watched in the HT was Brave on a piece of white cloth the night after we hanged the projector.

Phase II will have something to do with the boring ceiling. Stay tune...

Yup. In fact, a 2nd sub is in plan. Not for more output, a single PB12+ has more than enough output & extension for my <2700sq' room. Big & I measured @ 18hz with the sub running @ 20hz mode. But it'll be for smoother bass & better coverage for all seats.


I've moved out of the HTPC world since I moved to the new house. With a baby and work, I just don't have much time to take care 3 HTPC in the house anymore. So I moved onto a media streamer now. Currently using a Popcorn Hour A300 streamer to stream all of my movies from my old WHS v1 server (10TB of space). But sometime down the road, I'll be getting a Synology NAS box to replace the aging WHS v1 server too. You know, I gotta pick up these "post-PC" tread.

I'm planning to get a DS1812+ down the road. Heard a lot of good thing about it. My WHSv1 server only has <1.5TB of space left out of 10TB, plus no 3TB drive support really means it's time to move on.

OK, I finally have time to take some pics of the HT last night. So....... Here's my "Official" photos update (will be added to the 1st post of the thread too), hope you'll like them.

And I AGAIN want to thanks BIG for making my "Vision" into "Reality"!! It's really my pleasure to work with/learn from you. I'm gonna miss you starting this weekend and on......

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BTW, I'm a photographer for hire if you want some quality photos to show off your HT!
Edited by landshark1 - 3/7/13 at 12:59pm

The room shots were taken at 12mm (from my trusty Nikkor 12-24mm f/4 ultrawide angle lens) from a DX camera. Nothing special or exotic here.

LensRental or BorrowLens are some good place to temporary rent a lens for a quick photo assignment.

I wouldn't mind to come over snap some photos for you when your HT is done.