The Rouge Theater - Page 8

It is a dimmable receptacle. The protrusion is designed to physically reject any appliance that does not have the mating plug attached to the end of it. For a dimmable load, you just replace the plug end and it will work just fine. It prevents you (or the next homeonwer) from plugging in a vacuum cleaner or a television and then inadvertently dimming it.

So, yes, you do need the special plug to go with the special outlet.

Dimming the coolsky LED fiber optic generator works just fine. Ditto for the LED rope light.

Not that I know of. It seems that would defeat the purpose of the physical protection. They want you to have to physically put a plug on any device you want to dim through a dimmable receptacle.


Yes.

I am afraid I don't have good news for you with respect to your desired seating ...

I wound up moving one of the subs to the back of the room. There was a black hole at the primary (front row) seats at around 34 Hz, which I determined to be quarter wave interference from the back wall.



The only way to eliminate it was to move one of the subs away from the front wall. I didn't want it in the middle of the room, so it wound up in the back, where it would be less noticeable.

They aren't centered, because I couldn't fit the tall cylinder in the middle. It doesn't fit behind the screen or under the screen, so it would block the screen if I put it in the middle. I did a number of iterations with one sub on one side of the screen, and then moving the other sub around the room. The best I found - both subjectively and also analytically - was front right and back right. Here is the front position:



Notice the sub is on the right side of the screen, and there is still a "pocket" in the wall on the left where I had intended the other sub to have been. Then in the back right, here is the other sub on the riser in the back corner:



I will opine that I really do enjoy this positioning. I had some limitations, too, but I feel the acoustics work well. I don't have a chart to show you of final acoustics in the room, but I am very happy with where my subs wound up. Maybe a back corner position would work for you, too? That might help you with your seating choice.