Paducah Home Theater

At this point my phone seems to hurt me more than anything. I've been trying to use speakerphone, use my other ear, and put the ear piece purposely low on my ear so it's not firing directly inside of it, talk clients into texting or emailing, etc. Otherwise if I talk for a decent amount of time on it, even with the volume turned down, the tinnitus as well as frequency response and weird sounds like voices sounding like they're in a big room or something all gets worse.

Personally I don't know why you're still messing around with that little 10, just sell it or stick it in a bedroom, it's just taking up space. Trying to incorporate it is more trouble than its worth, you're not really gaining anything by trying to squeeze one 10" sub in the mix. Are you using it now? I haven't heard you say this. If not, hook the thing up and see if it will even remotely do what you want it to. If you want midbass, you already have several 10's and 12's and 8's all around you.

Thanks, yeah it wouldn't look the same without the white. We got the green idea from the Marquesa Hotel in Key West plus a vacation rental that we like in the Bahamas as shown below. There are other sea green houses out there but they usually look like they were designed in the 70's. Put that white up against it and it pops. We were originally going to go with dark gray but we figured you only live once. I wanted a standing seam white roof but standing seam would have put me way over budget, the roof would have cost way too much. One guy quoted me as much as $550 a yard which is insane. Where the "white on green" idea came from: http://www.shorecrestii.com/

Thanks, yeah we aren't exactly serious and formal people. Fun is exactly what we had in mind. As one example of that, we actually have a hidden door as shown below. It looks like a bookshelf, except when you pull on the classic "Alice in Wonderland" book, it opens up into a hidden room. It is now white and is pretty full but you can see how it works here.

We've talked about #3 elsewhere, it is your own opinion really, you'll have to play with the crossovers once it is set up. THX is the opposite idea as yours but some guys like their mains to carry more of a load. The only remotely correct answer is that THX recommends crossing over everything at 80hz. My experiences confirm that this does sound best for voices plus you can run your speakers harder. However I like concert movies to be crossed over lower.

Same in my neck of the woods, nobody can demo hardly any AV products worth demo'ing, except TV's. Luckily, somebody is trying to do something about that. (me)

Dolby Atmos for the home just came out, and Marantz was right there on top of it with the SR-7009.

As requested by dtel, here are several pics of my house as it was being built, pics obviously suck and were taken on a phone so I apologize. We took inspiration from colorful houses we like in the Bahama's and Key West. Don't have a lot of finished ones on me but I took several facebook pics while it was being built. I did most of the interior work, I painted the whole thing myself, did all the base boards, all the flooring, all the theater room wiring, all the insulation, all the design work, a good chunk of the electrical, and most all of the land development such as driveways, clearing trees, running trenches, my dad and me did all the porch rails and steps, etc. It took forever, pretty much every night and every weekend plus three weeks of vacation just to do my part. Living room, yes the ceilings are blue, there is a southern tradition that came from the caribbean where people believed that a certain type of really mean spirits called "haints" could not cross water, and painting your ceiling sea green or light blue, especially over doorways, tricked them into thinking they could not come in. Most "haint blue" has more green in it but my wife wanted it to match the sky more than water, which is harder than it sounds. We tried matching pictures of the sky with a color but it just doesn't work. master bathroom, crema marfil countertops from near the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, mother of pearl mirrors, Italian tile: front porch with a matching Mojito: back porch, colors are off here for some reason. We upholstered our own pillows with Sunbrella material. front while still being built, my dad and me did it all: kitchen before completed, KraftMaid cabinets with blue pearl granite from Norway: exterior at night: kitchen now has shelves I made, there are Jimmy Buffett records and colorful fiestaware dishes on them: All the bedrooms are sea green or blue, this one is Tiffany blue, you can't actually name it that due to copyrights but we got a Tiffany's bag and matched it. pirate room:

I'll just make a new thread as to not clog this one up.

They are very similar but the official statement on this is that the two companies have separate design teams and each are independently responsible for the end sound. The biggest differences I have found is that Marantz in general has some additional processing capabilities that make it better for music, and the flagship Denon receiver is as close to a separate av/amp setup that you can get without actually going with separates, supposedly it's great for movie dynamics and has low noise as well as higher than usual real world power. That is coming from a second level Denon tech support guy.

Has anybody used these? I keep thinking that they might be nice for a center channel if you can get one that's big enough. http://www.isoacoustics.com/index.php

It's not that being omnidirectional makes it immune to problems, but rather, new problems arise BECAUSE they are omnidirectional then parked inside an enclosed room. Sound waves go out in all directions then are reflected back and either cancel each other out or combine which results in unnatural peaks. Two subs helps with this.

I read it, I just figured you didn't read the OP 100% and missed the part about him being flat against the wall. 4 feet apart is way too close for 5.1 surround if a couch is going to be directly beneath them.

I was really ticked off last night, there was this very loud extended tone that is exactly what I hear on "the edge of tomorrow". I asked out loud why anybody would pay good money to hear such a thing especially when it did not contribute to the story, it's not like it was an effect immediately after a bomb went off. No, they just thought the audience ought to experience tinnitus just at a random time I guess.

Actually as long as I never see another compensator I'll probably be ok for the most part. Will probably hunt with a plug in my bad ear, might be able to slip one in my better ear if I have enough head's up. For some reason right handed rifle shooters get hurt in their left ear, which is furthest away from the barrel. I don't quite understand that.

Deer season starts this weekend too.

Did nobody else realize that the Edge of Tomorrow movie is basically GroundHog Day, except with guns and aliens? Seriously, it's the same exact concept but with a different goal. Both Bill Murray and Tom Cruise start at the beginning of the same day, everything happening exactly the same, with other people having no memories of it. Both try to prove what's going on by acting like a psychic, Bill in the scene below, as compared to knowing people's middle names, second grade teachers, "how many fingers am I holding up" with Tom Cruise. Both have died numerous times in many different fashions. Both memorize highly elaborate steps to better their situation because they know what motions other people will take, Tom back in headquarters vs. Bill stealing money from the armored vehicle for example. Both fall in love with the girl that they're stuck in the loop with. etc., etc., etc. Groundhog Day with guns. And aliens.

One thing I noticed as I got more sensitive and aware of the issue is that often times loud sounds actually come through your bones somehow. I could double up on hearing protection including a $200 set of custom molded plugs and 32 db muffs yet tractors and rifles could still ring my bell. That's really aggravating.

I wouldn't install anything like that. Just don't put them directly above your head and you'll probably be fine, either spread them out or put them in the back corner of the side walls. Since they don't fire directly at you and you'll be on the same plane either way, I'm not sure that either choice will matter much.

I actually have two RS-62's directly behind me in a similar configuration for 7.1, I watched the Edge of Tomorrow last night which has very strong rear surround material. Based on remembering what that sounded like, If I had to live with that being my only surround at all I could deal with it but I don't think it's optimal, the sides are more important. If I took my theater seats and put them flat up against the wall instead of 4' away like they are now and also had them as my only surround, I just don't think that would be right at all. Here is a visual, maybe we're talking about different things.

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If you had some room it would work but he doesn't. Given the situation of him being flat up against the wall, only being 4' apart and 2-3' above ear level would have these things be directly above somebody's head, which yeah sound will still come out of them but it would be a little weird. Personally I think they need to be spread out if he has to keep this furniture configuration and he already has these speakers. To the OP, can you not bring your couch out into the room a little bit? Flat up against the wall is hard to work with.

I'd pick the Denon simply because Audessey is proven, especially XT32. Realistically speaking though you'd be happy with either. As for the Marantz, I have an SR-7009 if you have any questions about it. My only complaints are that the display isn't quite as advanced as most people imagine plus it gets very hot compared to cheaper receivers. Otherwise it's a beast, can crank out way more than what I can use.

Thanks. When it comes to the RS-42 speaker, would it be "better" if they were placed on side walls at 90 degrees of mlp? Unfortunately, due to room configuration, the back wall is really my only option. Given the situation I'd mount them way off to the sides, on the side walls if possible, definitely not directly behind/above you if you can get away from this. Otherwise you are basically running 5.1 surround through the 7.1 rear position, while skipping the 5.1 side position and not allowing enough space for 7.1, just kind of weird.

That opening is a bit alarming, I have never heard that much output from my F20s. I wonder how many subs it as killed. Good flick. many. There is a whole thread about it on Avs. Lol. Poor subwoofers. We watched it tonight. While I'm not sure what the point was, it was kind of fun. I popped it in and the conversation went something like: me: Yeah the intro of this is supposed to give your subs a good workou..... subs: BRRAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP me: Yeah, there it is... subs: BUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPP.... me: Well that's interesting, I didn't know that wall had so many rattles in... subs: FFFTTTTHHHPPPTHTHTPPPHPPPPPP subs: flap flap flap flap flap flap whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh me: ugh.