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erikjohn
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Florida
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| JustGreg wrote: | | erikjohn wrote: |
EDIT: Just pulled out the rat shack SPL meter. With all channels driven in my 25X30 room from the center I was hitting 120db and it was clean and ahhhh loud as hell. It makes you wince when high hats hit. I could have turned it up more but whats the point, I really would hate to fry a horn. |
25X30 rooom...glhllllahhhhh (Homer Simpson drool).
I have a ranch house with the basement stairs smack dab in the midle of the house. I worked with the only space I could when I built my HT in an unfinished basement, and it ended up about 18X14 with one trapezoidal kinda wall. It's just as well I didn't have any more room cause I have the same budget as perisoft and the audio I currently have would have sounded like an old AM/FM radio at the beach.  |
I added this room on the the house just for my HT, pool table and guitar amps  ! It is separated from the rest of the house by a 10' long hallway with two sets of double doors  . That way the whimps can stay on the other side of the house while I get my groove on.
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WanMan
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In fighting with the basement that is the footprint of the home, with Greg's same problem of the staircase in the middle, I've often thought about paying the piper to pour concrete footings and slab for a 20x30 and excavate for 12' ceilings. I could then order some SIP panels, go with a flat roof, and replace the token stick deck with a roof-top deck above the theater (for future 1st-floor additions.
I think the material costs are not the problem, though. Paying labor is, and paying the man (property tax) is worse.
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JustGreg
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Kenosha, WI
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| WanMan wrote: | In fighting with the basement that is the footprint of the home, with Greg's same problem of the staircase in the middle, I've often thought about paying the piper to pour concrete footings and slab for a 20x30 and excavate for 12' ceilings. I could then order some SIP panels, go with a flat roof, and replace the token stick deck with a roof-top deck above the theater (for future 1st-floor additions.
I think the material costs are not the problem, though. Paying labor is, and paying the man (property tax) is worse. |
If I were building even a modest sized home such as the one I have now, I'd have had the area under the 2.5 car attached garage recovered as a bonus room from the get-go. That would have been an awesome sized (and shaped) room for a theater and the house would maintain the same footprint. There's a company that installs the reinforced concrete slabs on top of a full foundation wall (as opposed to the shorter foundation a garage sits on) but it has to be done at the time of construction and designed in. After all, what good is a big assed room if you can't get into it?
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WanMan
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And a 20x30 HT would still be for just me and the wife. --HT Pig
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Chuck27
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Location: Caledon Township, Ontario
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Transformers!@$$5 |
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| perisoft wrote: | So, my buddy and I watched it last week or so with about 800 watts of subwoofers and everything else CRANKED, and it was just mind blowing... but now I'm convinced that the movie is a f*cking masterpiece, because I was trying (unsuccesfully...) to get LimitedSharpenFaster working, and used the middle of the flick to test, and was compelled to crank up the system and watch for a few minutes. I was tired as hell before, and now I feel like I could skateboard down the side of the hoover dam. I swear to god, 5 minutes of that movie with good audio is like a line of cocaine as long as your arm.
If you haven't seen it yet, for God's sake do it. Turn everything up to eleven and DO IT. If you haven't got a good sound system and you're close to Ithaca, NY, PM me, come over, and we'll watch it. Seriously. It's unbelievable. Wow. Hot damn. Woot.
THIS is why I have a home theater - not for IRE calibrations, grayscale tracking, $100/foot speaker cable... I have it so I can fire up a movie, have sound that shakes pictures off the walls, and feel like I'm saving the f*cking world. This is why I do it!#$2 |
I could not agree more, I think I must have watched it 4 or 5 times now. I work in the Defense Contracting industry in real life, so on top of everything else, I got to watch a whole bunch of stuff that I made get tossed around / blown up / used as a movie prop....I felt like such a proud father!
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