SDA's and Wood Floors!

Pauly
Pauly Posts: 4,519
edited August 2005 in 2 Channel Audio
Been doing alot of updates to the house and one (my most pround) is just recently got done laying wood floors in the mancave and the living / dinning room and hallyway. Boy what a job! Saved 3 bucks a square feet doing it my self..Thats almost 2k if you ask. But boy what difference the sound is vs the old carpet! The soundstage just opened up and rolls off very nicely. Almost seemed like the carpet muffeled the bass. Now more of a punch and the highs seem more crisp. Yeah the HT sounds great too with the SVS but who care about that :) Well anyway just snapped a few pics. Still got some clean up and few more peices of qtr round to tack in then on to the next.....

Enjoy Pauly
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2005
    Driving those with a Carver???

    Beautiful floor, btw. You wanna do mine for me :D ??
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    Yeah Carver M 1.0 T Been wanting to try another amp but cant get around to selling the carver since it sounds really good on the SDA's.

    I can charge you 3 bucks a sqaure foot to lay them :D

    Pauly
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  • SDA SRS 1.2
    SDA SRS 1.2 Posts: 255
    edited August 2005
    Glad you heard an improvement with the wood floors, Pauly! We plan to do the same thing in a year or two and hope we get the same results. :)

    Robbie
    Main System: Polk SDA SRS 1.2 Speakers, Sunfire Signature 600~two Amp, Carver C-16 Preamp, Carver TX-11b Tuner, Marantz 6350Q TT, Philips CDR-775 Recorder, Teac V-707RX Cassette Deck, Signal Cable Double Run Speaker Cable

    Upstairs Den: Marantz 2325 Receiver, Marantz 5220 Cassette Deck, Marantz HD-880 Speakers, Marantz 6370Q TT

    Exercise (Kabuki speaker) Room: Kenwood KR-9600 Receiver, Pioneer CS-99a Speakers, Sansui SP-X9000 Speakers (not pretty, but LOUD! :) )
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    SDA SRS 1.2 wrote:
    Glad you heard an improvement with the wood floors, Pauly! We plan to do the same thing in a year or two and hope we get the same results. :)

    Robbie

    DIY or paying someone? And you wont be sorry. The sound the look the raising of the house value. Cant go wrong.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited August 2005
    Nice job Pauly. Was it prefinished? Or did you have to go thru the ordeal of sanding and such?
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    No. prefinsihed. Eff that. I was sore for Two days getting up and down etc.....
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited August 2005
    Hey Pauly,

    The floor looks great and I agree that a slightly live room adds to the SDA experience. Let me suggest that you grab an allen wrench and take the gold accents off the AE pre. AE doesn't put them on their highest models anymore and I see why. I took that suggestion a couple months ago on mine and never looked back. It just blends much better with all my gear.

    Cheers,

    DG
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

    2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable
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  • SDA SRS 1.2
    SDA SRS 1.2 Posts: 255
    edited August 2005
    spasticpitbull wrote:
    DIY or paying someone? And you wont be sorry. The sound the look the raising of the house value. Cant go wrong.

    No, I'll need someone more qualified than me! We were uncertain for awhile whether we should do it, but to enhance the SDA effect, there's no doubt now! Thanks for the great photos! :)

    Robbie
    Main System: Polk SDA SRS 1.2 Speakers, Sunfire Signature 600~two Amp, Carver C-16 Preamp, Carver TX-11b Tuner, Marantz 6350Q TT, Philips CDR-775 Recorder, Teac V-707RX Cassette Deck, Signal Cable Double Run Speaker Cable

    Upstairs Den: Marantz 2325 Receiver, Marantz 5220 Cassette Deck, Marantz HD-880 Speakers, Marantz 6370Q TT

    Exercise (Kabuki speaker) Room: Kenwood KR-9600 Receiver, Pioneer CS-99a Speakers, Sansui SP-X9000 Speakers (not pretty, but LOUD! :) )
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited August 2005
    Looks like great work to me. I like the color stain you picked. Glad to hear you are pleased with the results.

    How much of a pain was it laying your own wood? Wait, that sounded pretty bad.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited August 2005
    Wasnt that bad doing. Was a little tedious but just kept telling myself how much $$ i was saving doing it myself.
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  • thehaens@cox.net
    thehaens@cox.net Posts: 1,012
    edited August 2005
    spasticpitbull wrote:
    But boy what difference the sound is vs the old carpet! The soundstage just opened up and rolls off very nicely. Almost seemed like the carpet muffeled the bass. Now more of a punch and the highs seem more crisp.

    This is interesting, I have travertine tile in one room, placed my SDA's in there and I was getting a ridiclous amount of echoe/reflections etc. It didn't sound right. In my carpeted room they sounded much better. Maybe it had something to do with the vaulted ceiling in the tiled room Vs a non vaulted ceiling in the carpeted room

    scott
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited August 2005
    Echos and reflections will hide many equipment or recording flaws. Personally I like a fairly dead room so I can hear all the imperfections. I like rooms without any particular sonic signiture to them although most any room has some signiture.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,243
    edited August 2005
    spasticpitbull wrote:
    Yeah Carver M 1.0 T Been wanting to try another amp but cant get around to selling the carver since it sounds really good on the SDA's.

    Pauly

    Pauly,

    I had a M1.0-t pushing some 1C's. I then upgraded to Parasound HCA-2200. Definite improvement no doubt. The mids and vocals cleaned up very noticeably. The bass improved as well. The biggest improvement was that the mids weren't in your face. They seemed to blended right with the rest of the music.

    Now that I have SRS's, I'm starting to think that my amp has become my weak spot. :(

    Wes
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    Sony 75" Bravia 4K | Polk Audio SDA-SRS's (w/RDO's & Vampire Posts) + SVS PC+ 25-31 | AudioQuest Granite (mids) + BWA Silver (highs) | Cary Audio CAD-200 | Signal Cable Silver Resolution XLR's | Rotel Michi P5 | Signal Cable Silver Resolution XLR's | Cambridge Audio azur 840C--Wadia 170i + iPod jammed w/ lossless audio--Oppo 970 | Pure|AV PF31d
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