My long overdue system pics.

[Davemcc]

It seems I'm long overdue for a system pic here. I hope you'll forgive me as I've only just joined the 21st century and I'm still a bit of a 'tard when it comes to computer tomfoolery. The first pic is after my recent repaint and the second is before the repaint, but it kind of shows the room treatments as they are. The bass traps are back in the corners and the SVS sits beside the couch, where it is in the red room pic. I have other pics I can post to show the difficulty I have with mounting surrounds. I'll get those up soon.

 

[mike c]

looks nice, but the pics are a bit small.

 

[Rowdy S13]

looks nice, but the pics are a bit small.

What he said.

Sean

 

[Davemcc]

The real pictures are huge. It took me two weeks to figure out how to shrink them down so I could upload them to AH. I don't have them stored online or anything. I know, welcome to the 21st century.

So let me guess. To show big pictures, I'm going to have to load the pics to an online site and hyperlink? I really want to get the other pics of the back of the room up so I can show how messed up it is for mounting surrounds and get some options.

I'll start now to figure out how to get these online. Any helpful suggestions would be, well...helpful.

 

[avaserfi]

Sign up for free at photobucket.com upload the pictures and just paste the

and hit preview to make sure it formatted the way you like.

 

[Davemcc]

Here's a try. http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=169932432/PictureID=3557868338/a=98445589_98445589/t_=98445589

My wife already had a snapfish account so I used that. The pictures are still not as large as the originals. Does Photobucket upload full size images?

After several edits, I'm still not getting the hang of this, but this link should get you to the slide show.

 

[matthewdclarkaz]

Nice

Getting the hang of the comp and picture thing will come with time.

I like the setup though. The treatments look nice in the second pic (I assume the panels behind the speakers are treatments as well?), but I don't see them in the first one? Are you going to be putting them back up again. Maybe I'm confused as to which is current. Either way it looks good though!

 

[Davemcc]

The tan walls are current. The red was way too dark for a main living room that's so small, maybe if it was a dedicated theater...

I've got the front and side wall panels back up, the bass traps in place and an experiment going on at the back wall. I' haven't put the surrounds up yet because quite frankly I'm stumped. Once I get the photo thing worked out, you'll see what I mean.

Yeah, here we go. Snapfish doesn't give you an img location like photobucket.

Any way, here's the back corners. The leather chair is the money seat. There's no corners to use back there. One is the hallway, the other the front door. If I mount a surround on the side wall next to the hall entrance, its opposite wall is the front door. If I mount it to the right of the front door, it's opposing side is the closet door, so they would be staggered. I tried mounting them on 90 degree walls, one at the side wall hall entrance and one on the back wall at the front door. It's weird.

 

[avaserfi]

Glad to see the instructions worked out for you. Thats once nice looking room. How do you like the treatments?

 

[Davemcc]

Glad to see the instructions worked out for you. Thats once nice looking room. How do you like the treatments?

Thanks. The room is unlistenably bright without the treatments. On top of that there's a huge 40hz spike that prompted my use of both the SVS and HSU subs and the bass traps (which aren't done yet, but I spend too much time at work) to smooth out the bass response.

The red walls are gone. I took a few shots right after I painted that will show its more current state, but before some of the treatments went back up. Had I known how this would turn out, I would have put a DUW in the title.

 

[annunaki]

Dave,

Will your surround speaker fit above the door between the ceiling and the trim? You could then put the other speaker on the parallel wall?

 

[Sheep]

I think we can all agree when I say "holy ****!" Nice setup!

SheepStar

 

[Davemcc]

Dave,

Will your surround speaker fit above the door between the ceiling and the trim? You could then put the other speaker on the parallel wall?

Actually, they won't fit. The ceiling is coved and there's only about 6 inches above the trim before it starts to curve. I'm not really fond of having the surrounds that high up, anyway. In the red room pics, you can see the surrounds mounted above the panels. The panels are 6' tall and I found that to be a little high for my taste.

The way I see it, I have 3 options. 1. Mount the surrounds 90 degrees from each other, one on the back wall and one on the side wall as in the red room pics (not ideal). 2 Mount one on the side wall and one actually on the front door itself (not ideal). 3 Re-purpose the Ventriloquist system from the bedroom and mount two of them on the side walls near the ceiling as side surrounds and 3 on the back wall as rear surrounds, using the unique matrixing feature of the Ventriloquist's 6th speaker for center rear surround. This would be a little different, providing an 8.2 channel system.

I really don't know what do do, so in the meantime I have a unique 3.2 system going on.


Sheep,

Thanks for the (tastefully edited) comment. Being in the main living room, this system gets used at least 12-14 hours per day. It's a decided improvement over the Bose 3-2-1 that used to sit in that location.

 

[abefroeman]

Have you thought about spreading the L and R speakers out? How much have you experimented with placement? I think you will gain a lot of soundstange if you can get them wider. You can move that big sub a few feet toward the center of the wall and put the right main in its place.

Just an idea.

 

[agarwalro]

I think we can all agree when I say "holy ****!" Nice setup!

Ditto. SVS PB12-Plus + Hsu STF-3 "Very nice" in Borat accent

Have you thought about spreading the L and R speakers out? ...I think you will gain a lot of soundstange if you can get them wider. You can move that big sub a few feet toward the center of the wall and put the right main in its place.

Ditto here too.

 

[croseiv]

Very nice indeed! I want an SVS....

 

[annunaki]

Actually, they won't fit. The ceiling is coved and there's only about 6 inches above the trim before it starts to curve. I'm not really fond of having the surrounds that high up, anyway. In the red room pics, you can see the surrounds mounted above the panels. The panels are 6' tall and I found that to be a little high for my taste.

The way I see it, I have 3 options. 1. Mount the surrounds 90 degrees from each other, one on the back wall and one on the side wall as in the red room pics (not ideal). 2 Mount one on the side wall and one actually on the front door itself (not ideal). 3 Re-purpose the Ventriloquist system from the bedroom and mount two of them on the side walls near the ceiling as side surrounds and 3 on the back wall as rear surrounds, using the unique matrixing feature of the Ventriloquist's 6th speaker for center rear surround. This would be a little different, providing an 8.2 channel system.

I really don't know what do do, so in the meantime I have a unique 3.2 system going on.


Sheep,

Thanks for the (tastefully edited) comment. Being in the main living room, this system gets used at least 12-14 hours per day. It's a decided improvement over the Bose 3-2-1 that used to sit in that location.

Do you use the door? Or, does it get any use? If not, that may be an option. You could paint the interior of the door to match the room. Most people probably would not even notice that it was a door in that case.

The 8.2 option sounds intriguing. I would potentially opt for that.

 

[westcott]

Nice and clean. Just the way I like them!

Good job.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

Thanks. The room is unlistenably bright without the treatments. On top of that there's a huge 40hz spike that prompted my use of both the SVS and HSU subs and the bass traps (which aren't done yet, but I spend too much time at work) to smooth out the bass response.

The red walls are gone. I took a few shots right after I painted that will show its more current state, but before some of the treatments went back up. Had I known how this would turn out, I would have put a DUW in the title.

The floor is going to be very bright never mind about the walls but I guess you like laminated flooring its easy to clean for starts.

So I guess you’re not going along with the multiplex loudspeaker surround arrays, no point in that room its too small, but nice. Some of that bass will travel down the hallway and into the kitchen how does that make you feel or how does it feel in the room does it shudder on films like “Starman” (1984)?

Surrounds fitted to the ceiling and aiming down does work and I’ve heard it in 10 different cinemas down in Poole at Tower Park UCI many years ago, it’s a easy to fit them up and since I fitted mine to the ceiling a little incomplete but its money and time, why don’t you give it a try, I think you’ll have something quite unique in the room then.

 

[MDS]

I don't think any real changes are necessary at all. It is an absolutely beautiful room and setup.