Gorilla83's Humble Basement Hangout - Page 7

Trick of the trade......rub baby powder all over any exposed skin. This will make it so the fiberglass can't get into your pores.

Rilla....I only proposed what I did thinking that perhaps treating half the ceiling might be a compromise between full-out black and keeping area as general purpose?
I know the nearest 50% still made a significant performance enhancement with my screen/projector.

No more pics of insulation. I was itchy for hours.

Can you please share the specifications on that box? Are you using SI D2 or D4 18"?

Thanks

Every time I turn around you're on to some other HT project. Do you ever sleep? Is this the male version of "nesting" perhaps?

Get it out of your system now; once that little chimp or chimpette comes you're going to have your paws full.

Maybe I'll have you build me a sub cabinet. There are a few drivers I've been eyeing myself, but the only thing I can make is a mess. Although now that O Audio bit the dust I no longer have the amp I wanted to use.

18" drivers are for whimps. I wanted to build something using one of these!

Pheww!!! Well, today was a productive day at the office.. I read all the way through this thread AWESOME setup! Im incredibly jealous. I was reading around because I was looking for a subwoofer for my ghetto system. Im a low-funds kind of guy, adn was going to splurge and spend $1K on a sub... after reviewing every option over and over, someone finally laid out the cost difference/performance difference from pre-made to DIY, and im convinced.. Im gonna start with one of the 18" ho's and an EP4000 and just go from there. Although im scared, as i am clueless. I have access to a couple of clamps, a drill/screwgun and a caulking gun... thats it. No sound testing equipment etc... not that i would know what to do with it. there is so much to learn. I just want to rock the walls of the building. Im a 60/40 music/movie person. and I like full volume all the time. I have no regaurd for my poor little ears.. I started a thread to ask questions specifically for my first build, but i havent had an response. If im out of line, i apologize, but if any of you folks (especially you, Mr.Gorilla sir) want to give it a quick run-through and give me pointers/advice/point me in the right direction, it would be massively appreciated. Dont bust my balls too much please, I openly admit to being a newb, but im very interested in making this my "thing".. which is probably silly for someone who makes as little mula as i do, but hey, what can ya do!!

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1461915/will-you-pros-help-a-newb-with-his-first-build-please

Thats the thread of clueless little ole' me. If you have the time to help, thanks a million.. if not, either way, i really enjoyed this thread from start to finish.

PS: It took me to about page 5 before my brain clicked and i realized what GTG stood for Sheesh

oh, and Jim.. damn that 30+ incher is rediculous! man, i'd love to hear one or three of them in action!

ok, one last time let me ask a question that has zero to do with the thread (i just havent got an answer when i asked elsewhere, and its getting frustrating being without sound..). I just got my second onkyo 809 in one week because i thought the first was faulty.. here's the problem, and i really need some sort of solution, i have no proper sound for music or tv

Ive got 2 XLS Cerwin Vegas (dont judge, im broke ) that i had hooked into a CV-1800 pro-amp, and then into a cheap little technoband EQ and then into my ipod.. it played fine, no hum or anything like that.. Now i just bought this receiver because i guess i needed the pre-out inputs. (so im on my 3rd brand new receiver now). I hook from the amp to the eq (and i tried bypassing the eq and going from the amp directly to the receiver) using dual 1/4" - to - dual RCA wires. i plugged them into the front left/right pre-outs.. all i get is a loud hum and really really weak volume, and it sounds like you are listening to people in a garbage can, it sounds horrible.. When i hook the speakers right into the receiver (using its internal amp) it sounds fine.. The problem is, i want to use my amp as thats why i bought it.. the speakers need more power.

I assume all wires are fine because the system works without the receiver.. Do i have a ground problem? if so, i dont see how, as both the receiver and the seperate amp and speaker system have been plugged in the same area since before this, and all work fine. its only when i connect the two... Onkyo support wasnt very helpful at all.. so now im stuck, clueless with a big hunk of expensive metal and no damn sound.. If ya'll could please help me out, i promise ill stop taking your thread off course.. I just want a solution from people who seem to know their S***


HELP!!

if it matters, at first it was only hum and no sound until i did a master reset (and this is after i first plugged the thing in). now i have the sound to where it sounds normal, but still an extremely loud, unbareable hum...

yep, my receiver power cord has no ground plug. does radio shack have a "cheater plug" too? I only ask because they are right next door. Is that what its called? If i ask for that, they will point me in the right direction?


and thanks, btw.. Ive been frustrated as hell with it.

so i was reading on wiki that the cheater plug is pretty dangerous to use to eliminate hums in audio equipment. you are saying to use it just to see if thats my problem? And if it is my problem (It most likely is), what should i do from there? To fix the issue for the long term

hmm.. seems a cheater plug is to make a three prong plug into a two prong plug and eliminate the ground.. however, my receiver cord is already a two prong plug.. am i supposed to use the cheater plug on the amp power cord? I cant recall if it is 3 prong or two prong (im at work at the moment)

thanks again. hope it works

last question (and i promise, ive been reading through ground loop hum threads all day).. Seems lots of people's hums come from the TV box co-ax.. is this true in your experience? Ive read a trillion ideas on how to remedy it, but i would like to here your opinion.. people talk about running a ground wire from the cable splitter to the damn ground rod outside and whatnot.. i live in an apartment, and ideas like these are of no help to me. if it is the cable box being plugged in causing the humming, is there other things you would do to resolve it?

Im basically trying to get all the answers while im at work, this way when i get home, i can go through them and get this handled, instead of waiting another day for new ideas.

well, im home. radio shack didnt have a floater plug (and the kid working there didnt even know what i was talking about, lol). While i was waiting on my handy neighbor to locate one, i pulled the hdmi cord that goes from the cable box to the receiver out of the back of the receiver and boom. hum totally dissappeared.. i can play music via my ipod through my receiver adn amp (hooked together) with no hum. so what should i do now? I see many folks say to get that $10 ground isolation thingy from PE.. but right on the description at PE it says "not for digital cable, analog only". adn there are lots of contradictions.. people saying it worked, people saying it didnt.. hell even a staff member from PE said it works (when the PE description says otherwise).. let me know what you think i should do from here.

Always appreciated.

hmm. looks like this is working. i hooked a peice of speaker wire as a ground wire from the splitter on where my coax splits to go to my modem and cable box, and the other end i just put against the chassis of the amp (which i assume is properly gorunded as i am not using any inproper plugs) and the humming stopped. is this safe? If so, its not even visible, and will be one cheap/easy fix!

I used this isolator and it cleared up my cable-induced hum.