1 hour ago, blybo said:

Couple more improvements done to the HT room.

 

Rear row of couches arrived last Friday so that basically completes the major pieces. They are recliners without the transformers connected as there isn't quite enough space to recline. At least it all matches. Once my processor sells I'll upgrade to a ATMOS 4k processor.

 

May be hard to see from photos but there is also now 100mm Polymax Absorb covering front corners of the room as well as floor to screen corner and side walls forward of the side cabinets. It looks a bit messy with all the lights going full blaze but you can't see it with lights off.

 

Now thinking of painting the entire room black, maybe even covering the front ceiling and my wall cabinets in black velvet. Can you believe the wife was the one that suggested it!

Wow! HT systems on the ceiling!

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7 minutes ago, Sirmorebeer said:

Wow! HT systems on the ceiling!

 

Well, we are planning a Bat cave, so seemed the sensible thing to do.

where's @BATMAQN when you need him? I've never actually had this happen before... Maybe because I've linked from my desktop rather than just using tapatalk from my phone.

Mankind actually landed on the Moon in 1969 ( yes they f****** did) and here we are in 2016 and we still have not come up with a way of putting photos up the right way. Progress?

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Mankind actually landed on the Moon in 1969 ( yes they f****** did) and here we are in 2016 and we still have not come up with a way of putting photos up the right way. Progress?

 

I know, every copy of these images I have are orientated the correct way, and suddenly, bat mode.

Oh well no Bat to save the day, maybe he prefers the room like that !!! 

 

Well even Bats need to go shopping occasionally can't eat an amplifier. 

The new seating looks great, do you have the new AVR yet?  what are you getting?

13 hours ago, Kazz said:

The new seating looks great, do you have the new AVR yet?  what are you getting?

 

Yeah I got a Marantz AV7702 mkii last week. Overall I'd say the Marantz is a fuller sound, I'm running my subs at +4.5db and it sounds fantastic, much more bass than the Integra gave, and I was running even hotter with that. If anything the Marantz makes the speakers disappear more. My wife and I were watching Breaking Bad and we could not tell the dialogue was coming from below the screen, even when concentrating on it!

HT setup is looking awesome Neil.

 

As for jpeg orientation this might help: http://www.impulseadventure.com/phot...ientation.html

That's a lovely HT setup. Is that a scope screen or is it masked? I've always considered a scope screen to be the best choice for HT but with so many good TV shows being produced at 16x9, Im wondering if a 16x9 screen would be better or just stick with the scope and put up with the black bars either end. Either way there will be sections of black screen... What are your thoughts on this?

 

Cheers

 

M

If you look closely you will see 2 thin boards of very dark velvet up against the walls on the seating side of my storage cabinets. They mask my 130" scope screen back to 103" 16:9. However I made then to be a friction mount inside the screens frame but found it was gradually pulling the velvet off the frame. The plan is to make a contoured bracket for them so I can just hook over the top, just not a big priority as the black side bar section of screen is pretty black when viewing, heck, it's even hard to see my speakers in that photo with the lights on.
My wife is going to Spotlight tomorrow and I've asked for 5m of velvet to cover my cabinets. If happy with that I'll do the ceiling in the front area too... eventually... we are using the room heaps right now binge watching Breaking Bad


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That's a lovely HT setup. Is that a scope screen or is it masked? I've always considered a scope screen to be the best choice for HT but with so many good TV shows being produced at 16x9, Im wondering if a 16x9 screen would be better or just stick with the scope and put up with the black bars either end. Either way there will be sections of black screen... What are your thoughts on this?
 
Cheers
 
M

I tell a lie, you can't see them. Here's 1 sitting on top of my sub




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11 minutes ago, blybo said:

I tell a lie, you can't see them. Here's 1 sitting on top of my sub




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So the scope screen is the way to go then. From what you are saying, the masking isn't absolutely necessary unless you're quite fickle?

So the scope screen is the way to go then. From what you are saying, the masking isn't absolutely necessary unless you're quite fickle?

Correct. This issue of the velvet shifting on the frame came up around 3 years ago... still haven't found the need to fix it even though probably pretty easy to do.


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Correct. This issue of the velvet shifting on the frame came up around 3 years ago... still haven't found the need to fix it even though probably pretty easy to do.


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Thanks for that. I'll pass this onto my mate who's just in the process of setting up an HT.


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You are both welcome to come and have a look. This was done on much tighter budget than many rooms you see. Except for chairs and curtains the rest of the room including new wall construction and new doorway was done for 10k


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I can understand though why a real estate agent would seek to change the room back to a normal room, to up his chances of a sale.

A room like this is like a pool, you just cut your potential market by 50%+.

 

I have a pool.

 

I'm yet to test this idea and the reasoning behind it.

Conversely, my pool will appeal to the people who want a pool so  by that logic, people who want a cinema in their house will love this room. 

a house with a HT and a pool must be unsaleable then !  

 

I do remember taking to someone that said how they had sold their place with a HT room only to go past their later to only see the new owner had stripped it out and piled it all out on the nature strip ! some people just dont value or even realise the value I suppose.

 

as with any of these things I guess have to do for yourself. your self only. if selling try strip out anything of value prior to selling as quite likely something not valued by anyone else ! 

@:) al You've seen my room thread. I had what your saying very much in mind at the time. It had to be able to be used or returned to being a normal room once I was finished with it and or the house. So the big unit I had built will just be a normal, hopefully contemporaneous unit when we go.

This room with some paint, removal of riser and new carpet could easily be switched back to a formal lounge, but who used them these days. Could also easily become a gym, rumpus room etc


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Update:

@:) al came over yesterday with his Audyssey Pro calibration kit. As the installer, he had to buy a license for me which cost just under AUD$200. The improvement was quite dramatic in punch and tightening up the bass in the room. Vocal clarity was also excellent post calibration and when we put on the 4K Earth II doco we both ended up watching probably 20 minutes of it. The sounds of the forest were very life like in a 3D soundstage for a 7.2 set up and speakers have now basically disappeared.

 

Very happy with the result and in debt to Al for his help. It is a bit of a slow process, probably not helped by neither of us having a decent Windows laptop, we struggled on with Al's ancient netbook but got the job down in around 2 hours, including much chatting, 2 coffees and 1 beer each.

 

Here is the before and after sweeps

 

You will also notice I've got my main listening position pretty well spot on when looking at distances between l&r channels 

Never tried Audyssey, but have Anthem Room Correction (ARC). Have used ARC in 3 separate untreated rooms. Each run can take as fast as 15 minutes (without the chat, coffees and beer ).  

 

The most difficult was in the current house when we first shifted in, open plan family room, high ceilings, large glass windows on one side, sliding glass doors, no curtains.  A nightmare echo chamber.  ARC managed to tame some of this, making it bearable for HT.

 

For anyone considering it, recommend getting the best possible room correcting software you can afford. Upgrade to Audyssey Pro if your system allows it, as @blybo has done. Room Correction does not solve everything but it goes a long way towards improving your HT experience. 

15 minutes ago, Snoopy8 said:

Never tried Audyssey, but have Anthem Room Correction (ARC). Have used ARC in 3 separate untreated rooms. Each run can take as fast as 15 minutes (without the chat, coffees and beer ).  

 

The most difficult was in the current house when we first shifted in, open plan family room, high ceilings, large glass windows on one side, sliding glass doors, no curtains.  A nightmare echo chamber.  ARC managed to tame some of this, making it bearable for HT.

 

For anyone considering it, recommend getting the best possible room correcting software you can afford. Upgrade to Audyssey Pro if your system allows it, as @blybo has done. Room Correction does not solve everything but it goes a long way towards improving your HT experience. 

The non pro Audyssey XT32 even when done to exacting 8 points like we did, would only take 15-20 minutes, the pro calibration was slowed down by processing in the old pc, and initial set up/pack up of the pro kit.

 

My room actually measured pretty well except for sub territory which was largely fixed by getting @Paul Spencer to do sub optimization a couple of years ago and how to best add my second sub to naturally smooth sub response, then Audyssey does the rest.

 

There's also around $350 worth of XHD50 Polymax in the front corners of the room, and also on a 45 slope along the front floor and wall intersection.

some pics from the afternoon...

 

my midget "pc" no wonder sony got out of laptops

 

the most important.. calibrating the sweet spot,

 

front stage, with everything hooked up. 

 

was very pleased with the end results ... not huge amount of EQ needing application ... no Odd ball results or measurements. even the dual subs didnt need too much doing to them by the looks to pull in line.

 

and could hear was a very seamless sound post calibration wiht planet earth we played definitely felt like being in the forest - sitting in a field of sound. also deadpool opening after had plenty of kick and punch to the dynamics and with the vocals at all times being very clear.

 

I think blybo has done absolutely the right thing here. with getting right speaker locations and config of room, adding some treatments and really leaving EQ as the very last thing. and to good effect. I kept the measurements clustered around the main listening position rather than get too far out.. incase impacted by wall reflections or creating "noise" and its done a really good job overall. It definitely adds a lot of finesse the pro kit

 

i enjoyed the afternoon, we took it pretty casual. chit chatting in between, coffees beers. what would be the fun otherwise