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Speaker cloth has arrived for screen wall. I plan on making large frames, wrapping them, and filling top, bottom, then sides of screen. I have to add blocking on the walls and sides of the screen goal posts to attach the frames to.

How is it best accomplished to attach the removable frames? Velcro? I saw in the newest htotm at AVS the guy used speaker grille snap fittings. Seems great, but not sure if it is adding anything over Velcro....

Magnets? Sticky backed Velcro can be a pain to get to stay stuck over time. I've had the paint pull off the wall in one place (crappy paint job) and the Velcro backing let go in another where I used it to hold up my home made window blind.

Friction. That is how my top, bottom, and side panels that flank my screen on my false wall work. Nice and snug, but still easy to remove. I just use the "goal post" frame to provide a solid stopping point vertically, and then added a couple of 2x2 strips to the side walls to keep the left and right panel in line with the screen.

No magnets. No velcro...

Excellent. Thanks. I'll try the friction method first. If I dont have to buy anything all the better.

Hey Fred, quit hinting about your HT reno and post some reno pics already! When are you planning to start? Winterish?

Getting over flu bug... Even had to miss the beerfest event tonight. Think I got the center channel issue sorted. The artificial boxiness seems to have been reduced.

I tried a couple things, cant be sure which one was the magic bullet. First, I tightened up the driver and tweeter screws. Got a big quarter turn out of em, so I did all the other speakers too. Why not. Then I put sticky tac between it and the plywood tripod stand I made up. I'm not sure the sticky tac made a big difference, but I do think it may help damp any existing cabinet resonances.

Hopefully tomorrow will bring some actual progress. Sure would be cool to get the screen wall panels made/installed.

Magic mullet? Whoah, flashback.

Post puked twice. Argh! Lost posts, so here is a quick and dirty rundown.

Preliminary screen wall finished. Need to put blocking in, but you get the idea.

Looks good

Very cool!

Thanks guys. We watched about an hour of different stuff to test it out last night. It takes some getting used to. I'm so used to seeing speakers it's hard not to think I'm just watching a huge TV now. Here's how I ended up dealing with the light bleed through. I jusy stretched fabric across the goal posts frame.

Does anyone out there know the "optimal" colour settings for an oppo 103? I changed the hdmi colour space to 4:4:4 and depth to 36bit undithered. I'm not sure if I should have done that or not. My PJ is an epson 8345 and accepts 12bit colour (not sure it can produce it though.)

Not sure if its the black backing behind the screen, or the settings, but something seems a little off. Maybe I'vejustnever seen blacks like this out of my PJ before.