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So I've got a few yards of this Moleskin Matte Silver from Spandex World and I started to throw together a quicky test with it but I'm a little lost at the moment. First off, the material is much thicker than I expected but oddly, the stuff just stretches and STRETCHES seemingly forever. No joke. I'm doing a 16:9-ish 120" screen (I say "ish" because I'm using this to see how the different screen sizes work in the room so not being totally accurate at this point.)
So, I start by doing the top of the screen and then start pulling the fabric to the bottom of the screen but it just keeps stretching so I got curious and cut off a 24" wide strip and sure enough, I can pretty easily stretch it to 60" and I'm thinking "that can't be right" and decided to move my half built test screen in front of the PJ to see what the picture quality is looking like.
It looks pretty darned good and more importantly, the speakers behind the screen still sound bright and lively to me. Then it dawns on me to do the old "light up the speakers behind the screen trick" to see how thin I've got this stuff stretched and I'm shocked to say that I can't see my speakers sitting about 8" behind the screen..
So I'm confused. Am I stretching it too much? Not enough? I swear I could put a little muscle into it and get it stretched plenty more but I'm not sure if there's any point. I think it would be kind of neat to light up the speakers behind the screen but maybe that doesn't work with spandex?
Any advice from those who've gone down this road?
So, I start by doing the top of the screen and then start pulling the fabric to the bottom of the screen but it just keeps stretching so I got curious and cut off a 24" wide strip and sure enough, I can pretty easily stretch it to 60" and I'm thinking "that can't be right" and decided to move my half built test screen in front of the PJ to see what the picture quality is looking like.
It looks pretty darned good and more importantly, the speakers behind the screen still sound bright and lively to me. Then it dawns on me to do the old "light up the speakers behind the screen trick" to see how thin I've got this stuff stretched and I'm shocked to say that I can't see my speakers sitting about 8" behind the screen..
So I'm confused. Am I stretching it too much? Not enough? I swear I could put a little muscle into it and get it stretched plenty more but I'm not sure if there's any point. I think it would be kind of neat to light up the speakers behind the screen but maybe that doesn't work with spandex?
Any advice from those who've gone down this road?