TheaterBlog: The Theater has Power
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 28, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The theater has been progressing well, especially over the past couple of weeks. First off we had to put up all of the treatments on the walls:
We used two types of materials: OC703 (2" thick, covered with FSK along the rear wall) and Bonded Acoustical Cotton (2" thick). Bryan Pape, the audio guru, listed their roles as follows:
OC703 is for Front corner triangles, front wall, and rear wall. FSK is to be bonded to the rear wall material - FSK toward the room
but foil side toward the fiberglass.Triangles in front corners are 17x17x24" stacked floor to ceiling. Balance of front wall is 2" bonded to the wall. BAC is bonded acoustical cotton and is for the side walls. 5' high from bass absorbers to the 2nd column on the side wall, 4' high from there back.
Getting them on the walls was pretty easy, just used liquid nails to adhere them and then a screw with a fender washer for added security. Having pulled at least one of them down since then, liquid nails alone should honestly suffice.
With the treatments up, I needed to get a few other things done. The soffit/light tray needed to be finished. While it was already sheetrocked it needed to be mudded, sanded then painted.
A friend of mine has been decorating my house for the past few months now and she picked Behr's Stone Hearth color as a match for what was in the renders. She's got an amazing eye for design and the color came out great:
The theater also finally has power. Some of the lighting fixtures have already been installed, although I'm waiting on getting the cloth panels up on the walls before putting the sconces on the walls.
Lighting in the room is controlled by a Lutron GRAFIK Eye 3000. The GRAFIK Eye is a multi-zone programmable dimmer, which lets you dim lights individually as well as create presets for the levels of all of the lights. With an optional $700 serial interface (that's right, $700 for a serial port) you can connect the GRAFIK Eye to a computer. The goal here is to connect the GRAFIK Eye to the HTPC and have the lights dim to the right levels once you start watching a movie.
The theater also now has doors. The doors are are non-hollow Masonite Safe and Sound doors from Home Depot, nothing too special about them other than the fact that they are supposed to be better at not transmitting sound. I'm not 100% sure on what I'm going to do to the doors (e.g. whether or not to attempt to cover them with GoM on the inside of the theater or just leave them looking like doors), but I've got time to figure that out.
There are only a couple of major construction items that need to be taken care of in the room and once we get it cleaned up, the actual carpeting can go in.
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Rugar - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Sigh.... Why must there always be someone who, rather than get out and work themselves, would prefer to whine about what others should do with the money they have earned. Like others here, I can afford to build my own theater room if I chose to divert resources there and we are interested in what Anand has done.Take your wealth-envy and head over to the communist party forums. They will be happy to welcome you into the fold.
sellout - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
#1 - Had a job, outsourced to AMDOCS and Accenture in India !#2 - Sure you can afford to build your own HT, next to your Hummer and your maxed out credit
#3 - Interest is good, head over to a HT blog
#4 - If the US is capitalist, why is there so much welfare for corporations, banks, airlines, energy companies. Bailouts to go around. It's called communism for the rich, they have the most to lose from a free market.
#5 - Wealth envy is also know these days as the American Dream!
I love middle-class Republicans so nieve! You problably live in Texas too right?
Rugar - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - link
1. Get a new job.2. I drive a 6 year old Hyundai that is fully paid off and gets 32MPG. I'll drive it till it dies because I don't see any reason to pay for a new one while this one is working. I have $0 debt other than student loans which will be paid off within the next 2 years (notice the "divert resources" line above).
3. I actively read AVSForum as well. That's where I go for definitive information. I'm reading Anand's blog because his process is much more like I foresee my own in the future than that of the AVS professionals that inhabit AVSForum.
4. The same reason we have farm subsidies, welfare, and the Department of Education... vote pandering. I'm all for a top to bottom review of government programs and policies that can be discontinued.
5. Your concept of the American dream is fundamentally flawed. The dream is that through hard work and dedication you too can become wealthy.
I love generalized assumptions by trolls who can't spell. You're probably 13, right?
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Somebody's pissy todaysprockkets - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Wait, your comment was posted, people do read about his home theater, and if you don't have $1500 to spend on renovating a room to put in a 720p projector, some lights and such, get a real fscking job and stfu.sellout - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Ask Apu to post some numbers when he's done. $1500 lol, idiot! you definitely need reading comprehesion, but I forgot most American's read at the 6th grade level. I've got a pretty good job, its called donkey punching your mom, and she pays me guess what, $1500. STFU wow good one, you really told me, over the a internet...your definitely form the south!Sunrise089 - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - link
"your definitely form the south!"How many misspellings and grammatical errors can we pack into a sentence? Apparently a lot when you have the IQ of a racist troll.
whatthehey - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Way to go moron. You just made the collective Internet dumber. I believe Anand is actually born and bred in the USA, despite having immigrant parents. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, Anand. I seem to recall a blog post to this effect around the time the Afghanistan/Iraq stuff started.)Sorry you're not getting your pole greased by reading the reviews, but most of us enjoy the information and technical content. Sellout? You must be talking about THG or HardOCP. Or perhaps you mean where AT "sold out" with their motherboard comments?
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3279">http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3279
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=42...">http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=42...
Oh, wait... you didn't read those past the fisrt paragraph. My bad.
sellout - Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - link
Wow, is it really possible to make the internet or rather American culture dumber, hmm...I don't think I recall saying anything about anyones country, but rather "your country", meaning could be any shit country including the US, I could probably scrounge up some starving kids even here in the old USA. Any racist slant is in the mind of the reader, time for some self analysis. Really curryboy can write about whatever he wants its his dime, my comment was more to the effect the whole reason his site is popular in the first place is "johnny on the spot" reviews of computer stuff I might want to go buy, hence the whole funding through "buy my shit ads" from said companies, furthermore, how that has all taken a back seat to look how great my HT is on my dirt farm in the south. All the other stuff is just inflamitory to see how my fanboy pussies I could make come out of their mom's closet and realize their queer bait, you your just a plain vanila dork drooling on yourself while you compare review sites. Have nice day!smn198 - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - link
Please don't feed the trolls. Maybe we need comment ranking on the blogs?