Jim Holtz hangs out at HTguide.com BTW. He's active over there so if you need to pick his brain he should respond. I've enjoyed my exchanges with him.
Good luck and I can't wait to see the build process start. I'll live vicariously through you. It's kind of a let down now not to have a big project going
I almost like building a speaker as much as I like listening to them
Is this going to be a 2.1 / 3.1 / 5.1 build for HT?
I've been a member there since mid-march, but haven't done any posting... mainly for some minor research for a project I ended up nixing. I'm already reading through BigJim's build (you know, there seems to be a lot of Jims and Statements coming together
). I was starting to mock up my build in SketchUp the other day and it made me happy to see his ideas and mine were somewhat along the same lines, exception being that his build was sealed and I'm gonna go with ported on mine.
I feel you on the building thing. I love working with my hands, and getting to use that noodle upstairs for some ingenuity and craftsmanship. The only way it gets better is by listening to awesome speakers
while you build more awesome speakers.
I'm going to start off 2.0, then build my LFE system for 2.1, then add the center for 3.1, and finally some surrounds for 5.1. The 3.1 and 5.1 additions are likely a long ways off, as I'll hardly have the room for the Statements and LFE in my current venue (a mid-large sized bedroom).