BassThatHz Theater Build - Page 12

A few swiveling latches and some kind of gasket or door weather stripping ought to do the trick.

Now hang on, you make all these videos of your system and your using a Sanyo FH1A camera! I want to see some 600FPS slow-mo shots of the subs

Totally nuts, but mostly just awesome! I don't envy the wiring you have ahead of you, though.

I literally feel sorry for that driver lol. At the price, I dont even know if I could push mine that hard. Do distortion measurements show any jumps when its being pushed that hard? I know Not posted some vids of his surrounds doing the same thing at one point and it just blew my mind the first time I saw it.

Ah OK, so will finish the back too I guess if going to have glass door? Anything special like gas filled or anything for sound proofing, gotta ask since your other methods of sound proofing have been rather great. And yeah not all equipment is rackable so to say but not many will be wider. I have noticed that my closet, very close to the size of your equipment area is rather hot since messing with my minidsp in there quite often and have two exhaust fans and a return in there. Get ready to break a sweat when tinkering while the equipment is on in other words lol.

A full size plate was my inital thought as well, a router and many templates would get the job done on a thin sheet of board all while saving up to a couple grand in the process. And not only that it would be solid where the custom plates can leak a little light where they join one another. That would be the best looking trim job for sure and most likely take a very long time, but when done would be the best of the best.

I'm really liking that power filtering unit. I've never even looked into anything like that before.

I thought of something pretty cool, or maybe it's stupid.

Could you rig up your system so that maybe 2 of your subs are playing. Do a demo. After they say something about the bass, you could go over, 'check something'.

"Oh, you are right! I guess only 2 of the subs were on. Hold on, let me turn the other subs on too".

And then they get the full effect of the.... 16 subs? Or was is 12.

LMAO I know its not funny to you but think you'll need an excavator unless you move out of the suburbs. I get a little bit of vibration in the main house (55' away).

But seriously, that sucks after all the soundproofing you've done. You/everyone knows there is no stopping the LF from traveling but would have thought atleast some of it would be dampened enough for you to enjoy the room. Looks like you might want to know that family's schedule if ever want to enjoy your hard work. Thats such a bummer!

Lightning fast on this build, nice work! Have you been doing everything yourself?
It's funny, you started your build around the time I finished my drywall. Now you're almost done and I'm still 1/3 of the way through with my trimwork and weeks away from carpet.

Tell me about it. I've been going over a year now with about a 1/3 the progress. I swear I've spent every free minute working on it too.

Totally speechless , AWESOME BUILD!!!

These may help to keep your neighbors dishes from shaking:

http://www.auralex.com/sound_isolation_subdude/subdude.asp

That's too bad BTH...all that work and still rattling the neighbor's fine china when not even at full strength with the subs.

I keep reading thread after thread about all of these heavy-hitting systems on AVS and want to be one of the cool guys too! I'm in position to be there with 4 FI 18's and 8 SI 18's IB in the HT room, and have the tapped horn thing covered for my family room with 10 Lab15 drivers that would make big noise in a TH-50-like cab from LilMike (4 of these would be plenty). Also have 4 DTS-10's...well, 1 unbuilt DTS-10 and 6 DTS-10 drivers...

It's situations like yours that make me realize I have no chance in my current house of running any of the desired sub systems at anywhere near full volume without getting a knock on the door from the cops...which just became a much more likely possibility as the new neighbor across the street is a police captain. The guy next to him is a county attorney. The neighbor closest to the subs is the safety manager at a coal mine; not anything menacing authority-wise but his mine has been written up for numerous OSHA safety violations over the last year and he's cranky these days. He's already complained about the single 12" TH in my garage system vibrating the walls in his kitchen 60' away. The lots around here aren't exactly tiny at 1/3 to 1/2 acre, but we are talking about subs with slightly above average firepower.

I've thought about jackhammering out my 1200 sq.ft. garage floor and going underground, but the reality is this lot is nice but not special enough to justify that kind of remodel investement; it'd make much more sense to sell this place and build again.

Thanks for sharing your build!

So much epic in this thread that I feel I just have to post. Have you looked into vacuum panels for ULF isolation? The problem is it all leaking through at the structural and boundary points, but there still might be solutions. I saw some research papers a while back, but I don't know if there are commercial products. 1 mm of true uninterrupted vacuum is better than 3 ft of concrete.



p.s. That couch in that room is hilarious. Probably costs less than one of your tweeters.

it looks like my 200$ futon lol

and yes this is a truly epic build

Your screen is wobbling there, isn't it? I recall someone asked before about why you don't do a fixed AT screen. I don't remember your answer - maybe time to revisit that? Bigger screen, no wobble, and you could keep your CC tower.