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Thanks for the compliments. I mostly just ‘wing it’ and try to figure things out as I go along. I’m dumber than a box of rocks for the most part, but can do anything with my hands. My mouth on the other hand….well, I’m just not a very skilled communicator.

I screwed up this link on the first post. It's the entrance door and the bathroom to the left. I couldn't have roughed the surround speaker locations any worse than I have. Between the stinking door and the window on the other wall, I screwed myself pretty good for surround placement. The M 3's sound pretty good, but they're just too close. I'm going to replace them with another set of QS 8's and use the M3's for the other TV upstairs. I'm going to install some W-3's in a pine finish above the Jacuzzi. The white wall plates are hiding some speaker wires and Cat V that go back to my office where I'm going to mount the hardware.

I made the arch out of cedar logs left over when I put the house up. I didn’t want folks to forget they were in a log home when downstairs with all the sheet rock, and I like arches - so I decided to put pine and a few posts where I could. A day with the chain saw, belt sander, orbital sander and about five pounds of sawdust all over me later, it was done. I like the heart wood grain in red cedar, that’s why I ripped the posts. There’s another one in the hallway next to the stairs too.

Yes, the M 3’s are mounted with the Axiom full metal brackets. They are very stout and well made with top notch fasteners.

And how do you know that?

Fantastic, Mike! I envy your skills.

So, do you rent that place out for retreats or anything? Need some help positioning the M80's?

I suppose you fly into Ketchikan and then take a "Puddle Jumper" from there, eh?
(Edit - I see that it is actually a Dehavilland Dash 8 Turboprop from Anchorage)

Beautiful rooms. Enjoy.

Very sweet indeed.

I do have two spare bedrooms Tom. One even has its own bathroom, so feel free to drop by anytime. I’d recommend driving though. The last 60 miles or so to the drive to Valdez is probably the prettiest in the whole state. There’s waterfalls, glaciers, rugged mountain peaks, rivers, canyons, lakes and in the spring, it’s all lush green. It’s like living in a national park. The M80’s aren’t all the troublesome to move around, but you could come up and move the EP600 around for me while I sit on my ass with a drink and the remote in my favorite spot doing some “critical” LFE listening. I’m sure it wouldn’t take but a couple hours to get it positioned right - depending on how fast you can crawl around moving the sub.

I don’t know what to say to you Peter, you dirty old man. I about gagged from laughing too hard while attempting to swallow my coffee. I’m gunna have to remember that one… “cunning linguist”.

Mapquest says: Total Est. Time: 46 hours, 24 minutes Total Est. Distance: 2357.30 miles

But I'll bet I could do it in under 45 hours in summer.

I'll put it on my list of road trips.