Carp's basement hide-out - Page 8

thanks Dom

that video is insane!! I didn't even know that was possible! That said, I do have cracks in my wall where I cut into it to repair the damage to the vapor seal when I was running speaker wire to my right side surround. There goes my careful drywall repair work.

Thanks mjaudio!

I finally covered my white outlets - with bass traps! I wasn't using them so I figured this would be the laziest way possible to take care of it.




Here is a shot with a folding chair to show the scale of the speakers/screen

boom

Haha, what an idiot.



Man, that sucks but everytime I see it I'm reminded of how fun/crazy that night was and it doesn't bother me. My house has never experienced such crazy volumes before or since!!

Thanks Kevin!


Well, I finally got sick of being able to see the black bars in bright scenes above the screen so I found some left over black velvet from what I had my "screen" frame wrapped with.

SOOOOOOO much better. I can't see the black bars at all in dark scenes now above the screen, 100 percent gone. I should have done this a long time ago.


Here is a pic with the masking panels in, this is how it usually is since I mostly watch tv.

At first my plan was to tack the velvet along the front wall up to the ceiling (90 degree angle) and then along the ceiling back towards me. I quickly realized it would be much easier to just go diagonal from the top of the screen border to the ceiling, and this way I got more coverage on the ceiling - 2 feet from the wall. I just wanted to see how it looked and figured it would look bad and wouldn't work out, but it actually looks very good. The beam is another issue, I don't know how to make it look good but I have to cover it or it is even more obvious now that above the screen is taken care of.

Thanks! Yep, I remember well the days of renting - for me it was always apartments. That was brutal not being able to crank it up.



Ha, well now that I have that taken care of I get suggestions that I get a dark rug and paint the ceiling. The video quality nazis are all over me!! They are right of course, but I don't want a bat cave.


It helps for sure with 2:35:1 movies - so much better. I don't think I realized how much light was above the screen before. Other than that, I'm not sure. I have so much light colors in my room that I think it would take a lot more. The thing is though I'm happy with the quality (for now, I know how that can change) and I like having a light basement since we use the room for things other than movies.

I don't have a screen, I have a painted wall. The frame of the screen is moulding wrapped/stapled with black velvet. So the panels just "snap" in place held by the molding/frame. The panels are sintra plastic wrapped in stuff called pro star which is self adhesive and very black. They use it for telescopes.

With the panels in I have a 16:9 screen for tv, for movies that are 1:85 it's not a big difference, I have just a very tiny black bar at the top and bottom you really don't notice it.

Thanks Scott - yeah I'm at the mercy of when the 18" flat packs are done, can't wait.

I'm going with 8 separate boxes. I'm getting anxious, I want to get this project going!! Hopefully the flatpacks will be ready to go soon.

thanks a ton LTD, but I'm having trouble. When you say "open the editor" do you mean click on edit post at the bottom of post 1 of the thread? When I do that and scroll down I don't see anything that says "import images" with a box to check. Ha, so I guess I'm stuck on step one.

ok, this is after clicking on the pencil icon to edit the post. No i don't have that import images to check mark, it only has the word cancel. Here is the message i get at the top.

"This is Rich Format content so you've been switched to the Rich Editor."

I'll pm a moderator and see if i can get it figured out thanks for the help and compliments LTD!

Thanks Bunga! Yeah that's a good idea I should put a link in for the DIY thread. Ha, I just wish I could figure out how to post pictures in my first post on this thread. The upgrades have to chill for awhile after this, but I've been saying that for so long now!!

Lets see, for about 5-6 years I had Axiom speakers, SVS sub, and 65 rear projection tv (actually had that for 10 years). I buy a JTR Captivator and suddenly I'm in a constant state of making changes:

Since early 2011:

TV:

Epson 8350
DIY screen wall/masking panels (actually had that done by someone else)

Speakers:

Magnepan
Elemental Designs Cinema 12's
JTR Noesis

Subs:

Captivators
Submersives
DIY SI subs

Receiver:

Pioneer Elite vsx 53

Misc:

SMS-1
CV 5000 amp to drive SI subs
dual dedicated 20 amp lines

Sheesh, I bet I'm forgetting some things too. It really does become an obsession. I am still having fun with it, and nothing on credit card yet.... so I tell myself I'm ok.

Haha, hey my wife has been driving illegally since 2007!