My work in progress...

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So it's been 3 years since I joined Club Polk and I've learned a lot from the forum. Here are pics of my work in progress - both the living room and basement rigs have come a long way!

The ceiling is finally done and all the wires have been placed in the ceiling:

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More dedicated circuits installed:

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Built a rack for the Wii, SNES, Playstation 2, and Xbox 360:

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Some new components:

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I ran some wires in the crawl space:

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Cut a hole in the wall for dedicated circuits:

(My drywall work sucks)

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Living room all cleaned up:

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DIY sub is a 15" Dayton Titanic MKIII:

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Audio and video gear used:

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Surrounds mounted on rear wall:

Sherardp

Nice rig. You watch alot of 4:3 material or what?

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More wire management:

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Sherardp wrote: »

Nice rig. You watch alot of 4:3 material or what?

Yeah, the Epson 1080UB is projecting in 4:3 mode most of the time, which puts the black bars to the left and right of the screen.

Most of the material is Concert DVDs, vintage games (SNES), or music videos which are not widescreen.

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Some more angles of the living room:

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Hanging the subpanel was the hardest.

It had to be mounted on a piece of wood on a concrete wall:

TECHNOKID

Your doing great, love your set-ups :cool:

Cheers!
TK

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TECHNOKID wrote: »

Your doing great, love your set-ups :cool:

Cheers!
TK

Thanks, I'm learning as I go (as you can probably see, I'm not that great at things like drywall and my paint skills suck) and installing whatever is necessary on an as-is basis. For example, if the sub needs an outlet I'll put one there. Same for the A/V cables, speaker wires, and coax for TV.

RuSsMaN

You know we have a system showcase section, right?

Cool setup, love the Awia dual cassette deck!

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RuSsMaN wrote: »

You know we have a system showcase section, right?

Cool setup, love the Awia dual cassette deck!

Yes, I have yet to use it!

The Aiwa gear from the late 90's/early 2000's was fun

Now for some embarrassing pics:

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This is what the room looked like before:

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Drilled holes through ceiling for speaker wire (top left):

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Here's an old pic before cable management:

Note the loose wires to the left and right.

New setup is from Post 4.

ShinAce

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DIY sub is a 15" Dayton Titanic MKIII:

Thread jack!

I'm gonna build the same sub for my best buddy. I plan on feeding it 350RMS. How do you like the sub? With music, movies?

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ShinAce wrote: »

Thread jack!

I'm gonna build the same sub for my best buddy. I plan on feeding it 350RMS. How do you like the sub? With music, movies?

I like the sub very much. For music, it is tight, accurate, and very fast - it sounds like a Hifi sub like a Focal or high-end Velodyne. However, for movies it could definitely benefit from a ported enclosure which I have not done yet. I have the sub set up for sound quality vs. HT "slam" in the current configuration.

Overall a very good sub, just depends on how you build the box. For sound quality go with a small 3 cubic ft. sealed enclosure. For HT slam build a large ported sub or a cylinder like the SVS's. You can't go wrong either way.

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Any suggestions?

Sherardp

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Any suggestions?

Since you asked. Is it possible to install some shelves in that gear rack? That way the components seem less cluttered and they can breathe. Funds permitting pair up that Epson with a 16:9 screen and use its native aspect ratio, it will thank you for it and provide even better image quality.

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Sherardp wrote: »

Since you asked. Is it possible to install some shelves in that gear rack? That way the components seem less cluttered and they can breathe. Funds permitting pair up that Epson with a 16:9 screen and use its native aspect ratio, it will thank you for it and provide even better image quality.

Are you referring to the setup in Post 4? That's the current setup.

(The pic with the Monster unit on top is from before I redid the room)

Also, I'm definitely looking into a 16:9 screen as once I start using Blu-ray or PS3 - right now my friends bring over their PS3 - I'll definitely need it!

Willow

ShinAce wrote: »

Thread jack!

I'm gonna build the same sub for my best buddy. I plan on feeding it 350RMS. How do you like the sub? With music, movies?

Didn't know we were best buds, but I'll take the sub!

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Willow wrote: »

Didn't know we were best buds, but I'll take the sub!

It's a good sub, you won't be disapointed. Whether for music (build a sealed box) or for movies (build a ported box instead) - it will deliver. Just note that in the sealed configuration it isn't that loud or low for HT.

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It's a good sub, you won't be disapointed. Whether for music (build a sealed box) or for movies (build a ported box instead) - it will deliver. Just note that in the sealed configuration it isn't that loud or low for HT.

The specs for the 15" MKIII are borderline sealed/vented. Nonetheless, I'm going to try and go vented unless the size prohibits it.

bsoko2

Sealed is just as good as ported if not better for SQ. I have dual Empires and they get down below 15 hz and have better SQ then the Conquest that I have (selling it).

Bill