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Got your xbox in the ht? It is worth having surround sound.
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I have been running BluRay for quite some time. Around 20 forum members have been to my place and I think they'd all describe the picture and sound as Awesome. I have a 106" projector screen, 720p, and it looks great.
If you're looking for a receiver, the latest Denon and Onkyo do pretty well. If you're looking for a pre-amp under $5k, the Integra DTC 9.9 (used to be 9.8, what I have) does a fantastic job for HD audio and plain old 2ch listening as well.
I don't have time to scan the forums as much as I used to, PM me if you have specific questions.
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Michael is probably right, but I would call this a bad judgement call on Kevin's part, nothing sinister. He's been extremely fair and courteous in his dealings with me.
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And here's my formal review:
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There's no place like London...
This will be my Halloween night movie.
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I suspect some of you guys in this thread are NOT running Blu-ray, NOT experiencing the DolbyTrueHD soundtrack. I'm sure the DVD is great, but the BD, damn, is just awesome.
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Dead Space, the horror survival game for the PS3, Xbox360, and PC, is awesome. It's being described as one of the best horror games ever made. I was up late playing it last night.
Here's my early review: http://www.damonpayne.com/2008/10/16/DeadSpace.aspx
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Dead Space is awesome. Buy it immediately.
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I'll have to check the manuals about placement.
Placement is a room-specific and relative game anyway. You are changing where the reflections occur, corner loading, and at what phase reflections off the wall behind the speakers meets the direct sound in front; possibly other things that are not coming to mind. I'm going the route of room treatments instead of "extreme placement" because I don't want these guys (pretty as they are) like 4 feet in front of my projector screen.
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U-Verse is coming within 1 street of me in December. Looks like I'll continue to Rot with Charter for a while.
Scott, you have mail. Let me know if you need more help hooking up.
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I started working on an extensible layout tool that can run in the browser and be used to visually position things. It's not even close to done, but check out what it looks like thus far:
Some day...
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I'll post a link on Klipschcorner to help publicize the event
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Its keeping me from enjoying it. It will be played from my Zune in my car and that's it. The only thing I've bought in the past 5 years that sounds worse is that "Raising Sand" album.
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The songwriting is not bad, I'm liking track #4 especially.
The recording sucks! The dynamic range is insanely compressed and it's 1 dimensional. The positioning is bizarre: the drums are way up near my ceiling and the vocals are down near the floor. At least there's no noise. Sounds OK in the car, sounds bad on a 2ch system.
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My copy just arrived via Amazon.com; reserving judgement until I get it home to listen on my system. Anyone else have the CD yet?
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But my bread knife is for bread...
Seriously, these carpet knife things are 100x sharper than any serated kitchen knife, leave a clean face, and I use a large t-square as a straight edge.
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Cut method: get a carpet knife/safety knife razor thing whatever they are called, extend it all the way out so it's greater than 2" long. Mark the triangles using chalkline and cut down the middle of the chalkline.
Using 1/4 wavelength and assuming I've had enough cofee for math and speed of sound is 1300ft/sec
var lowFreq => (1300 / (feet => (18 *4) /12) )
Around 216hz
The concern with of using too much of the glue is that the glue itself will become reflective if you stick these together with too much glue. I'm not sure if some wooden poles maybe 1/4" in diameter would have the same reflective concern: honestly poles might be much easier than glue. Since you're trying not to use too much glue the damn thing can fall apart while you're carrying it unless you fashion a makeshift "stretcher".
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Right, these are made out of Roxaul Rockboard 60 which is a little more dense and cheaper than OC703. The come in 2' x 4' sheets which I cut into 4 even triangles, stack, and glue together using the nasty 3M spray stuff. We got some black fabric which I believe is black flannel and she sewed a "sock" that fits it more or less perfectly.
Dimensions are:
48" tall (as tall as I cared to make them for now, the taller the better) and the other dimensions determined by the size of the rockboard triangles. The front face is 35" wide.
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The Pals = awesomeness incarnate. Treating the room now.
Pilgrimage Postponed Until Further Notice
in Forum Meetup Planning + Past Klipsch Pilgrimages
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I'm sure we'll have a "Lake Country Klipsch Fest" again