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Re: Lets plan a theater space
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Sad to say that my room is not as far along as yours. I have the ceiling done and 3 of the 4 walls. Still have to do all the metal edging and lots of plaster work. Doing it DIY in my free time is taking quite a bit longer.

I am not going to be as acoustically perfect as yours is. I am having an engineered hardwood floor as I like that, so I guess I will need more absorption on the walls to compensate. It is going to be what it is going to be. As long as it's comfortable for me, then that is really all that matters.


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Re: Lets plan a theater space
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Doing anything DIY takes a lot longer, but you save a lot of money. wink In the end all the money gets spent anyway.... laugh

You just pray in the end it doesnt scream DIY and suck. Lol. I'm really hoping the screen wall turns out. Finishing work is not my forte.

Re: Lets plan a theater space
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Yikes this thread has ballooned.
Might take me awhile to chug through it, but a great documented adventure on building a HT room!

We stopped short of adding too much sound control material. After all, i wanted a sound controlled area, not a sound proof one. If i ever had a heart attack down there after ingesting all the buttery popcorn, i would like someone to hear my squeaks for help.

I figure the STC of our room is between 40-45 (if i recall correctly), with a standard room (2x4 walls and one drywall layer) being under 35.
The dB drops by 30 outside the room just by closing the french doors and only the bass is easily distinguishable in the rest of the house (hard to control bass energy when the living room is ony 16 inches above the media room).

Ironically with all the science in this house, i still have yet to do any frequency sweeps of the room.
But i still need a laptop to start, or i'll have to wheel my desktop comp down the hall....yeeesh.


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Re: Lets plan a theater space
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I was hoping for 50ish with an ambient noisefloor of <20dba. I'll wait and see I guess. Judging so far we will not be able to leave kids unattended in there. No way we would hear if something was wrong. Would make a good band practice room.

All the cabling is here now and the screen is somehow still shipping. Well over a week now (must be coming from the states.) Shout out to blue jeans cable for 3 business day shipping.

I feel brwsaw's pain of breaking down gear/speaker boxes... My OCD said to let them go this time. laugh I never throw out boxes. Big step. Lol.

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Originally Posted By Serenity_Now

I feel brwsaw's pain of breaking down gear/speaker boxes... My OCD said to let them go this time. laugh I never throw out boxes. Big step. Lol.

I'm the same way but have actually kept all my boxes and have not broken them down. Having bought and sold audio gear over the years, it pays to keep the original packaging.
That being said, you can get boxes from Axiom again in the future if you needed them so i'm very much considering taking mine out of the rafters in the garage and putting them into the recycle.
After 13 years with the speakers, there is a high probability i'll be keeping them.


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Re: Lets plan a theater space
chesseroo #413633 07/23/15 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted By chesseroo

After 13 years with the speakers, there is a high probability i'll be keeping them.


I thought the same thing after about my first 5 years and I got rid of mine. We moved the next year and I wish that I had the boxes...

On my 1 work trip to Toronto this past February, I made the trek up to Axiom and got a VP150 box and two QS8 boxes and the packing materials. I brought a whole separate suitcase to get them home (was free luggage for me). Now I have boxes for my VP150, four QS8s, four on-wall M3s, VP180. I do not have boxes for my M60s...

Why the boxes earlier this year? 1) Axiom is awesome, so I got them for free while there, 2) I am sure that we will move again at some point, or 3) the VP150 and QS8s may make their way back up to Dwight for trade in on some more M3s for Atmos/DTS:X and I will need the boxes.

Just doing my part to have you second guessing to keep or throw them away. Glad I could help.


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Re: Lets plan a theater space
nickbuol #413636 07/23/15 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted By nickbuol

I thought the same thing after about my first 5 years and I got rid of mine. We moved the next year and I wish that I had the boxes...


Isn't that a variation of Murphy's Law?
We'll ask Murph next time he checks in.


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Originally Posted By nickbuol

I thought the same thing after about my first 5 years and I got rid of mine. We moved the next year and I wish that I had the boxes...


Isn't that a variation of Murphy's Law?
We'll ask Murph next time he checks in.

That's why I kept my boxes and foam. I even double checked with Murph. smile


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Re: Lets plan a theater space
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Went hard this weekend. We are operational. Pulled, terminated, mounted, temp calibrated.

Wife is jazzed. Now just waiting on the screen (tigerdirect dropped the ball into the grand canyon) and our sectional delivery. The rest of the finishing awaits.

Pulling chases


Why 2" conduit minimum is a must


AV shelf starting to fill up


Looking rear from front


Looking front from rear


Sconces temp mounted before acoustic panels


Ghetto Screening (see the chase and TV outlet? grin)


So far the room is working out great. Great input during the planning stages. wink The Harmony has been integrated with the oppo and the sconce lighting reacts as follows.

Play dim to off
Pause dim to preset
stop dim to preset

Amazing! Totally worth the extra hour to figure out how to add macro sequences to the Harmony remote buttons and 70$ to add Lutron Maestro IR dimming switches. A must do IMO for the price.

The remote is set up to one button everything on for:

listen to music
watch netflix
watch movie

Now to actually finish the space..... lol.

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Looking good, will be a great place to hang once the snow flies.


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