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[MidnightSensi]

Thanks Alex, through your help and others I've been receiving a good deal of solid info.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to keep my sub from my kids I'm all ears. The living room is also the playroom unfortunately. It was easiest to childproof and they are curious little devils.

I have a 3rd old with the manual dexterity of a safecracking catburgler and a set of twin girls 1yr old who watch and mimic everything their older brother shows them. I had an iron screen in front of the fireplace but they kept pulling it on themselves.. it is not that heavy. On top of that my boy jumps over it anyway. He's the real danger.

I should probably take the installation of this system to another category in the forums.

I am currently waiting for a sweet deal on the TX-SR606.

these guys HAD it for dirt cheap, I've called them just to double check it's out of stock.

http://www.ecost.com/Detail.aspx?edp=41351501&navid=155441519

Look into prosound subwoofers from Danley or Bag End. Both have offerings with hard grills and tough builds.

 

[noaudexp]

Thanks a bunch Davemcc! You know I was coming to that conclusion (slooooowly) myself. In my efforts to figure out why I needed HDMI at all outside of video I was arriving empty handed at all turns.

I have read the PS3 can have an external HDD larger than 32GB but I can't think if there's a way around the 4GB max file size. FAT32 won't allow files larger than 4GB and I have not heard someone claim they know the file system the PS3 uses or that they have been able to format a driving using that FS. I have heard the PS3 file system can use larger than 4gb files.. I maybe be wrong in that.

Any work around or clarification concering the 4GB max file size?

 

[noaudexp]

Look into prosound subwoofers from Danley or Bag End. Both have offerings with hard grills and tough builds.

Thanks MidnightSensi, I ordered a Dayton 150 already. Though durable construction is important these kids would have been swinging from and chewing on the cables like that crazy monkey curious george. That's the monkey that teaches them how to break and enter.

 

[alexwakelin]

If the Dayton sub doesn't work out, a downward firing sub might be an option to consider.

 

[noaudexp]

If the Dayton sub doesn't work out, a downward firing sub might be an option to consider.

I have in-wall shelves over a woodstorage cabinet. The cabinet is quite large with two doors. I plan on popping the door pins stickin the sub inside and putting up some sort of barrier like those cheap baby gates that have verticle dowel type bars. Or something a little more attractive but along the same lines.

The cabinet is not far offset from the fireplace so it will be relatively close to center.

Not-so-funny-story: my open box LN46A550 had a power issue. I was within the 30day return policy so I exchanged it at my local BBY for the only thing I could afford that they actually had in stock, a 40" LN40A550.

After I put it up everyone claimed it fit the room better than the gi-normous 46".

Speakers are still en route. Still no receiver.

 

[noaudexp]

I have in-wall shelves over a woodstorage cabinet. The cabinet is quite large with two doors. I plan on popping the door pins stickin the sub inside and putting up some sort of barrier like those cheap baby gates that have verticle dowel type bars. Or something a little more attractive but along the same lines.

The cabinet is not far offset from the fireplace so it will be relatively close to center.

Not-so-funny-story: my open box LN46A550 had a power issue. I was within the 30day return policy so I exchanged it at my local BBY for the only thing I could afford that they actually had in stock, a 40" LN40A550.

After I put it up everyone claimed it fit the room better than the gi-normous 46".

Speakers are still en route. Still no receiver.

Incidently I can't even tell you guys the amount of cabling I've done in the last week or so. It's been a herculean task getting it all together. I ordered quad shielded f-type cable (100'), 50 connectors, a compression crimper and a cutting tool for the job.

I've never made coax terminators before, it's easier than cat5 and that's about all I have to say for it. Oh, don't crimp too tightly, just enough for the plunger to meet the housing. If you do crimp too tight the head will not spin or will spin with much resistance.

So I've run F-type, Network and power lines all through the walls of my house. The RG56/u used to run from the drop at the side of my house around the front and into the garage where it switched back all the way past the drop around a corner and into the main living area. I shortened this run by going from the drop to the basement and up through floor to the living room. Now the cable line does not need a booster. It's been rather hellish.

If you had gone into the garage before today you would have seen a Kraken-like mass of wire connected to no less than 4 splitters, some 1-2 and some 1-3. We just bought this house back in Aug.

 

[Davemcc]

That's the monkey that teaches them how to break and enter.

Be careful what you say about monkeys around here. It might come back to haunt you in unexpected ways.

That sucks about the TV. Bigger is better in my book when it comes to displays. I'm jealously eyeing the 63" panels as they come down in price to something I can afford and that's for an 11 x 14 room.

When you're all done, be sure to put some pics in the Member's Systems Gallery.

 

[noaudexp]

Be careful what you say about monkeys around here. It might come back to haunt you in unexpected ways.

That sucks about the TV. Bigger is better in my book when it comes to displays. I'm jealously eyeing the 63" panels as they come down in price to something I can afford and that's for an 11 x 14 room.

When you're all done, be sure to put some pics in the Member's Systems Gallery.

if you put 2 63" tv's on the short side you could cover the whole wall. At some point they need to stop with the inches and accept the fact we're talking about FEET.

 

[noaudexp]

I wonder if that tech ever made it out of the lab... they were talking about paint that worked some how like organic lcd in it's organization. you could literally roll on a coat, insert a connection unit and have a display. Then we'd be buying TVs from Behr and Sherwin Williams, etc.