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Yippe, I'm gonna do the basement in January
#152945 12/05/06 07:26 PM
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Well, I have read a lot of posts, asked a lot of silly and not so silly questions and asked my buddy Bridgman a ton of questions.

Here's what I have proposed to do.

Sony 60" Wega (XBR2); Axiom m60s with 150 centres, 500 woofer and Q8s. I think I will go with the Sherwood Newcastle R771 Receiver and the new oppo 981 DVD player.....what did I miss.

My basement is typical for a 2700 sq ft home with the TV on a finished wall of 12.5 to 13 feet and about 30 feet long (bar on the other end)....fussball table in the middle. I will have 2 walls perpendicular to TV wall at least 13.5 feet long (the one wall goes back to the bar.

P.S. do you like my pic?


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Sounds good to me! Are you doing any construction/soundproofing?


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Nachosgrande #152947 12/05/06 08:19 PM
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yes, the ceiling and walls will be insulated for warmth and sound proofing, other than than I may put up a wall dampener, as I here it adds to the acoustics.

Right now I looking for advice I havn't thought of yet and comments on whether my chioces are off the wall.

Thanks


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chips #152948 12/05/06 08:53 PM
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Oh yes, one other thought. If my basement will be ready to install the speakers and TV etc by mid to end of Feb., when should I order the speakers? Does the cost of my proposed system go up or down or level in the next 2 months?


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chips #152949 12/06/06 02:43 AM
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Are you doing the work yourself, or hiring it out? That will hae the biggest impact on when things will actually be done...


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Congrats Chips! My wife and I purchased a new house back in May and I've been remodeling my basement and transforming it into my new theater for the past few months. I should have it all done within the next week, or no later then the week of Christmas.

The prewiring is done, soundproofing is done, drywall is up, and the bar is darn near completion. It's alot of hard work, but a lot of fun as well. Well, that is if you enjoy doing such type of work, which I do.

Keep us posted on how everything goes and if you have any questions, there's a lot of great guys here who would be glad to answer them.

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Are you doing the work yourself, or hiring it out? That will hae the biggest impact on when things will actually be done...




Ha, oh boy, I laughed there and my glasses fell off. Nope, as my best man said about 19 years ago, the screw driver and me don't seem to get along. I wish I were that handy and envy those guys who are.

Nope, I'm getting a well trusted contractor to do the job (a guy I grew up with - and he will do it to code) and my brother in law is a liscenced electrician and he's doing that for free.

We gave the contractor a date which we wanted it done and he gave us a date he'd have to start to accomplish this. I hope it works out. He did my brother's basement on time so.....


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chips #152952 02/26/07 08:14 PM
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Well, my basement is DONE! and thanks to Bridgman My Axioms are all wired up.

They sound great of course. Tried Star Wars III for sound testing etc. WOW!

One minor problem, My EP500s rattle a bit at heavy woofer frequencies. Bridgman thinks it's a loose port.

I'll send a pic in a few days when I do my final touch ups. But my system is as in sig below


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The system does look and sound mighty fine. The EP500 rattle is only at high volumes and goes away when I stuff my hand in the port, so should be easy to fix.

During the first "performance" I got into a debate with one of Mark's friends regarding the ability to localize the subwoofer (it's off to one side). I mentioned that we could lower the crossover frequencies if there was a problem then realized his point was that the subwoofer was moving so much air he could feel his clothes blowing around from several feet away

We also ran into a problem with the Oppo 981 hanging up on Mark's copy of Star Wars III. No problem with my copy.

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Re: Yippe, I'm gonna do the basement in January
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Well, my basement is DONE!




Pictures?
(Yeah Sirquack, I know. I still haven't posted my pictures yet.)


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