Mantown

[Rickster71]

More like "escape from the Poconos"!

How did you finally get untied?

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Cleaning lady had a manly appearance and a exotic accent so Alex lost interest and only had so much rope...

 

[Davemcc]

Where did you put her microwave when you stole that cart?

 

[Alex2507]

Where did you put her microwave when you stole that cart?

I let Viktor the chambermaid keep it for his silence about what he saw me doing to the Dough Boy.

BTW, I looked up the company that made these things and will say that it's built like a tank. There is a real live equipment rack in the works down at Eddie's. It even says Pioneer on it but it needs some love first.

I can't wait for the next boom.

 

[Alex2507]

I first head Denon's Dynamic EQ down at Greg's and kind of thought hmmm. I liked the way it sounded at low volume compared to it being off and the bass totally dropping off but it just seemed wrong to be jockeying around with the gain on the sub like that.

FF to Rick's and as soon as he really cranked track 1 from BIA I could tell that the sub was cranked way too loud. He was the first to mention it and turned it down. However at normal volume it seemed fine.

After reading one of Dave's posts about our hearing not being linear and then reading a post by our resident speaker expert Paul Appolinionionioni-oh about the difference between loudness and SPL and why we use SPL ... I didn't take the few seconds to learn anything - I just learned that there was something to know ... I now think I have come to an understanding about our hearing threshold for LF. There is no set calibration that allows for the varied listening levels. Fortunately this rec'r is easy to adjust on the fly. In our living room the ancient Onkyo relic allows for it as well but I'd have to RTFM to figure out how. Still ... I feel like I have figured out something of importance. Sean Olive's 'How to Listen' software has been instrumental in all this too. I now have a little confidence in myself as a listener.

 

[walter duque]

I don't see no Carver.

 

[Alex2507]

I don't see no Carver.

The Dayton BR1's in this room have a power handling spec of 100 watts.

The Infinity Primus 360's in my living room are gonna get the Carver C-500 and
Technics SH9010 EQ to help them out with this somewhat problematic impedance/phase curve.

Normally this stuff takes time but for some reason it always takes me longer.
Like I always tell people, I may be slow but I get there.

EDIT: You know what? I just looked at the phase angle of the BR1's (can be found in the manual download on the PE link) at around 80Hz where I cross them and it's terrible. The impedance at least doesn't dip but I'll drag those two pieces of equipment back from Eddies and use them in here for a while with the BR1's. The 9010 wants a fader lube treatment before that happens. Refer to the emboldened part above.

 

[Alex2507]

All done !!!

... except the part where I gotta clean up the rest of the joint.

You must know that the mess from the previous photo didn't just disappear.

The Gear​

The Desk​

The Room​

 

[Swerd]

The Desk​

I couldn't help noticing a familiar looking picture on your computer screen.

Please have your lawyer contact my lawyer to arrange a settlement for avatar infringement.

 

[Alex2507]

Please have your lawyer contact my lawyer to arrange a settlement for avatar infringement.

Rich, just get your own Niel Diamond collection already.
I am not giving you mine.

 

[skyline_123]

You have exceptional wire management skills. It made me realize how badly my system needs some attention. I also like your speaker wire you have for the BR-1's. I've never seen anything like that.

 

[Alex2507]

You have exceptional wire management skills. It made me realize how badly my system needs some attention. I also like your speaker wire you have for the BR-1's. I've never seen anything like that.

Thanks, Sean. You know what that wire was? An IEC power cord for a computer. It just takes me forever to get that stuff nice nice. Don't be fooled though. My first photos of the microwave cart were staged. The power cords all ran elsewhere and were a complete mess. Then I brought the power to the cart and kind of let things go because I was sick of playing that game.

 

[Patrukas777]

Looks awesome! I agree, your wire management is superb. Very well done my friend.

 

[Rickster71]

I agree; having seen Mantown in person I can attest to the fact of how nice of a job Alex did.

If Cheryl ever relaxes her "No food or drink" policy in Mantown; I'd like to see you integrate the microwave into your setup.
Knowing how your love of snacks far exceeds that of wire management.

 

[Alex2507]

Thanks guys. Most fault me as OC and anal.
Here I get positive reinforcement for the exact same traits.

As far as our members go adk and ADTG really take the cake for wire management.

In Davemcc's thread this pic showed up of an AVS member's system ... it's like the holy grail of WM.

 

[its phillip]

Very good cable management. I couldn't have my computer on the sub or the monitor off to the side like that though

 

[Davemcc]

I agree; having seen Mantown in person I can attest to the fact of how nice of a job Alex did.

I'm sure you left with a smile.

NTTAWWT.

 

[Alex2507]

... your love of snacks far exceeds that of wire management.

Snacks ... my last vice. My goal in life is to be snack free before I'm your age.

I'm sure you left with a smile.

... but make no mistake, he was leaving. He couldn't get back to Doug fast enough ...

I couldn't have my computer on the sub or the monitor off to the side like that though

I do have some level of vibration isolation going on in between the sub and computer and I thought I read somewhere that computers were unaffected by magnetic fields. 90% of the time my feet are on that red pillow on the black end table in front of the little monitor that I use for my on screen menus and I'm actually looking left to see the computer monitor. The only time I sit in my seat normally is to type and then I am staring at the keyboard.

My ambidextrous mouse Kung Fu is strong.

... okay, it's more like this.

 

[Swerd]

Rich, just get your own Niel Diamond collection already.
I am not giving you mine.

Not interested in Neil Diamond, but if you've got Barry Manilow sings the Best of Pink Floyd, I might be persuaded.

In case you'd like a larger and less pixilated copy of that photo on your desktop just do a google image search of "Blown Away".

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Fixed it for ya!