Paducah Home Theater

Because I respect people's privacy, that's why. One guy's phone would ring at his house. One guy's would be his cell phone. No they didn't give me permission to give that out and I see no good reason to ask with nothing good coming from it. If I were giving them business that would be one thing, knowingly handing out their phone so some random forum guy could call them up under false pretenses just to have a debate is a little different. I named the store, let me know how the conversation goes.

All I will say is that the super nice place I mentioned was Hi Fi Buys in NashVegas if you must know. The other older guy definitely doesn't need any phone harassment. And, surely to goodness you don't actually believe that I'm going to give you the personal contact information of a wholesale distributor so you can call him up and have a phone debate over something you heard in a forum. Really? I mean, that's literally what you seem to be wanting, the whole idea is childish to be honest. Not to be rude but I just really don't care enough as to whether you take it seriously or not to do that. If you don't believe me then just ignore this thread. There's way more information on just how much other AT screens come up short just on EluneVision's site alone.

EluneVision is claiming less than 0.35 db on average, which is pretty flat across all frequencies, and only 1.8% of the surface is empty space. I can't imagine that perforated vinyl can do the same. http://www.elunevision.com/audioweave-tensioned-features.html#transparency

On Seymour's site it claims that movies are being mastered on their weave. I assumed it was popular in theaters.

It took me a little while to get used to Klipsch in general as I was coming off of some muffled Wharfedales with soft dome tweeters. Everything sounded harsh, especially rock music. Now, everything else sounds dead and boring. Midbass is a little less exaggerated, which I suppose is "correct", but that's the only thing I miss at all. However, I still agree with them on the cheaper offerings, the aluminum tweeter is kind of forward / bright / fatiguing, and that has nothing to do with wanting to go back to my old setup.

All I can say is that the CEDIA website is the biggest turd I've seen in awhile. The pre-test assessment links along with other things often lead you in circles, and there's two different registration forms, both of which mostly look exactly the same but does have some differences. One crashes upon submission. The other requires an auto generated username, except it won't auto generate, and the field is disabled so you can't type one in yourself, so, it won't submit. I get aggravated and have to quit every time I try to use it.

I'm probably going to copy PSG and go with EluneVision, then just put my center behind it. I still have those three THX's too, maybe cram those back there just for giggles. By the time I clear 16" deep RF-7ii's plus allow space for the rear port, I'll probably be more into my room than I would like. Plus RF-7ii's just look cool sitting there. But, they'll be stretched out awful far.

Yeah, for some odd reason I'd just really rather not publicly drop names for this purpose, sorry. I will say that the first guy was older and seemed to be a sole proprietor, and I really can't see him custom building stuff. Bolting a standard screen up against the wall and being done seems like more his style. Second guy seemed to be the owner of the largest and nicest AV store I could ever imagine. To say he can't sell or install AT screens would be silly yet he said the only time to use them is when you have to. If anything was surprising it's what this guy said. He can get and sell anything he wants, and he stocks Elite Screens. This isn't a small time guy that can't get decent AT screens so he pushes something else. Third guy was a distributor rep for projectors and a large company that makes AT screens, so, he's definitely got no reason to do anything but sell them hard and say they're awesome. That never happened. He didn't really say never get them when specifically asked, but similar to the AV store guy, he said you typically only use them in specific applications because there are significant trade-offs, mainly in terms of video quality, audio too, although he said most people probably won't notice, but acted like they would with video, especially on 4K. So, anyway, there it is. I just thought most people were moving towards AT screens and considering them the wave of the future so I was surprised to hear three business insiders, two of which are significant players, basically say eh, not so much, standard screens are usually significantly better.

Google "heat soak", aka. "afterboil". Seems to me that the same phenomenon could occur. The forces in play are the same basic principal. With this logic you'd probably say it is nonsense that an engine gets hotter after you switch it off yet it is totally possible. The article below warns of engine damage. So, if it is a well known phenomenon that parts of a cooled engine can get measurably hotter and damage components due to excess heat after it is turned off, why couldn't a cooled projector potentially do the same thing? http://www.mawsolutions.com/html/heat_soak_effects_on_engines.html

Awesome. What they didn't show is that those got hung up all the time. Even on your daily commute people would have a hi-lift jack on them, that's what they heavily relied on to get unstuck. Nowadays people in jeeps trot them around as a fashion accessory for dire emergencies but they got heavily used back then. My grandfather collected Model A's before he passed, he was in the movie "A League of their Own" (Tom Hanks, Gena Davis, and Madonna) multiple times. We still have two 1929's and one 1932. In the movie you can see his car when the real ugly chick hit a home run out of the gym, it pans away to the parking lot and there it sat. On one scene when they were hitting, he was behind home plate in the crowd. The best one though was when the 14 year old boy was driving Gena Davis to the sock hop, pulling up and asking her if she'd jump in the back seat and make a man out of him, that was his car, and my uncle was laid down in the back seat telling the boy how to drive it and ready to jump up and take control if necessary. The car that was in the movie was actually bought for farm use, he paid $50 for it. It was a convertible so he would put it in low gear and throttle it down real low and let it drive itself across a field. The whole family would follow beside it and dig up potatoes and throw them directly into the car, then he'd drive it to our stable and empty it out and do it again. Eventually he restored it then turned down $20,000 cash for it.

We may not be talking about the same thing but I had to use both RCA inputs on my R-115SW with the wireless controller. Yeah it worked with just one but only opened up after I got a splitter and used both. By saying line inputs though I thought he was talking about speaker level inputs.

How do solid metal racks affect wi-fi and bluetooth? Can you cram a playstation in an enclosed rack and expect it to work?

There is a particular old one that DJ's love that can be had for around $150. A friend of mine is all about them and may even have one. I'll ask.

You might be a redneck if you read this and thought he was talking about a Kalashnikov forum.

One time, in band camp, I went canoeing and stopped on a rocky shore, decided to take a leak but behind the shore was a big drop-off. To get some privacy I walked up stream a bit, walked right through a very wide and shallow pond in an area that looked similar to your picture, saw the proverbial man about his dog, then walked back. Got halfway across the pond and made the mistake of looking down. I was surrounded by baby snakes. They were 6-8" long water snakes that look like copperheads, there was one about every square foot or so, literally all around me, the pond was full of them. I high-stepped it out of there but the 4-5 seconds it took to get to the other side was pretty scary.

That usually works with hot air balloon landings. Wives, not so much.

This guy is a rep for a projector manufacturer: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/keep-your-projector-running-smoothly "When starting up your projector let it warm up all the way prior to shutting it down. If you shutdown right away after turning it on, you'll most likely blow your lamp. The cool down process is also very important to the life of your lamp. Steve Long recommends, "When turning off your projector, let it go through the cool down cycle before moving or disconnecting it." Not allowing the projector to go through cool down could cause the unit to overheat and the lamp lifecycle to lessen." If you want to talk about science, think about what happens when you just turn the power off. The bulbs don't just go off and cool down on their own due to the lack of fans. The fans are keeping the bulbs and the rest of the unit cool. Turning off the fans likely lets the bulbs get hotter than usual, and regardless of that, it is cooking the rest of the unit. It's like wondering whether your engine would be hotter while cruising down the interstate, or stuck in a traffic jam with a broken fan belt.

I don't always drink Pepsi, but when I do, it has blackened rum in it.

Solely with a kinda sorta not really similar price point in mind and nothing else, the entry level JVC is the DLAX35.

Happened again today, had a guy who is pretty high up in the food chain kind of try to steer me away from AT screens, basically said that the whole idea isn't going away, but you WILL lose screen resolution, to the point that on a 4K device it's kind of a big no-no. Said you can mostly get away with it on 1080p but 4K needs a completely flat, solid, and perfectly smooth screen, not a weave or something with holes punched in it. Once again, he was much more worried about the video quality than audio. That makes the third guy now with the same story even though they dealt with three different screen companies, and at this point it is going well beyond local installers and dealers.

As for the original article, I was next to a symphony orchestra last night for the first time. Some things were pretty standard as I used to play in high school band and know what a friggin trombone sounds like. But, the wall of violins, goodness. Mix in a playful oboe and a few delicate plucks of a harp and it's really quite complex. That would be hard to reproduce correctly, but would be heavenly if you could. I can better see what they're talking about now. Lots of nuances and non-directional sound that just wouldn't be normal in a typical two channel setup.

The official explanation I got from a major distributor was that ideally when your house is being built, you run romex in conduit from your rack to projector so you can use your rack mounted surge protector or preferably rack mounted ups to theoretically prevent damage to the bulbs during hard cycles when the power flickers. Otherwise, you use the receptacle level surge like what was mentioned earlier. I guess my question at this point would be how you terminate the 12/2 romex once it gets to your rack. Somehow it would either have to directly connect to your ups or you'd have to terminate it with a plug, effectively turning it in to an extension cord.

There's another thread kind of about this. Monopoles nearly always work better behind you apparently. As for the sides, it's still up in the air, most people still like bipoles and whatnot higher in the air for normal material, but yeah the official recommendation for Atmos is to put monopoles at ear level, I think preferably the same speakers as your mains if possible. I wouldn't worry too much about the sides, but yeah monopole rears might be a little nicer, and that's regardless of Atmos.

I started to say JVC earlier but he specifically asked for some kind of screaming 2,000+ lumen one. The typical JVC's are more like 1,200 lumens, even the high end $12,000 ones.