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I am fortunate enough to have access to Dennis Erskine’s place of business. He has opened what I suppose you would consider a retail store in Atlanta. It is very unassuming, residing in the same building as a Starbuck’s.
Mr. Erkine was nice enough to invite me by after a post I made about putting curtains around my theater and demonstrated the error that would be. He allowed me to experience the home theater he has created in store.
One problem with going in his theater is that no other home theater is likely to ever match up. He uses a Runco projector and Lexicon electronics. The room is as astetically pleasing as it is acoustically perfect. (Well, at least in my limited experience. I have been in maybe a dozen home theaters.)
He played the pod race from Star Wars. Extremely immersive. I believe I have experienced that scene as it was meant to sound and certainly an order of magnitude improvement over what i get in my room.
Mr. Erskine was quite patient with me, answered the questions I asked. He even offered advice on how to incorporate curtains into my HT and allow for 2 channel playback.
His approach to acoustic integration of a HT is fascinating and I could have bothered him for hours on end. All of the acoustic design and treatments in the room were fascinating. From the tuned floor to the treatments in the soffits.
He also demonstrated a product I think he called Green Glue. It has some interesting acoustic properties. He has some sheetrock that is bonded to a 2 inch thick piece of concrete. He showed how a transducer will play back music through the granite top of the counter in the store, but not through the sheetrock/green glue/concrete stack up. Very strange to me, but it sure seems to work. Evidently, the green glue converts the sonic energy from the transducer into heat.
A very informative afternoon and I appreciate the time Dennis spent with me.
I have a friend of mine I am trying to get to go with me to experience the ultimate home theater before he starts on his. However, if he does get Dennis to do his home theater, I’ll end up with “theater envyâ€.
Thank you Mr. Erskine
Mr. Erkine was nice enough to invite me by after a post I made about putting curtains around my theater and demonstrated the error that would be. He allowed me to experience the home theater he has created in store.
One problem with going in his theater is that no other home theater is likely to ever match up. He uses a Runco projector and Lexicon electronics. The room is as astetically pleasing as it is acoustically perfect. (Well, at least in my limited experience. I have been in maybe a dozen home theaters.)
He played the pod race from Star Wars. Extremely immersive. I believe I have experienced that scene as it was meant to sound and certainly an order of magnitude improvement over what i get in my room.
Mr. Erskine was quite patient with me, answered the questions I asked. He even offered advice on how to incorporate curtains into my HT and allow for 2 channel playback.
His approach to acoustic integration of a HT is fascinating and I could have bothered him for hours on end. All of the acoustic design and treatments in the room were fascinating. From the tuned floor to the treatments in the soffits.
He also demonstrated a product I think he called Green Glue. It has some interesting acoustic properties. He has some sheetrock that is bonded to a 2 inch thick piece of concrete. He showed how a transducer will play back music through the granite top of the counter in the store, but not through the sheetrock/green glue/concrete stack up. Very strange to me, but it sure seems to work. Evidently, the green glue converts the sonic energy from the transducer into heat.
A very informative afternoon and I appreciate the time Dennis spent with me.
I have a friend of mine I am trying to get to go with me to experience the ultimate home theater before he starts on his. However, if he does get Dennis to do his home theater, I’ll end up with “theater envyâ€.
Thank you Mr. Erskine
