Setting Up Home Theater / Listening Room

[4-earredwonder]

I just want to know "WHO CUT THE CHEESE?"

 

[marpow]

Getting closer, floor cables all done and sub floor put back together. 3 coats of mud on drywall and final texture coat tomorrow. 20 amp service panel in. Finish paint by Saturday and then sit and wait for hardwood floor, might be a couple, two or three week wait.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Getting closer, floor cables all done and sub floor put back together. 3 coats of mud on drywall and final texture coat tomorrow. 20 amp service panel in. Finish paint by Saturday and then sit and wait for hardwood floor, might be a couple, two or three week wait.
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But Markie, is there room for my Alaskan King Size Bed when I come to visit?

 

[marpow]

But Markie, is there room for my Alaskan King Size Bed when I come to visit?

Designated air mattress and you be by yourself with the remote.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Designated air mattress and you be by yourself with the remote.

And does that come with a BLOW UP DOLL?

 

[marpow]

And does that come with a BLOW UP DOLL?

Really!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Really!

And she should be on her OWN CIRCUIT BREAKER!

 

[marpow]

I guess I can call this completed Phase 1, Floor/wall opened to run 4 Atmos wires, 2 rear surrounds and one rear sub, rough in electrical with 20 amp circuit breaker in, insulation, sheet rock, tape/mud, paint all done. I have been gathering a few items to get ready like my DIY heat shrink cable ends, Rocket22 pants, heat gun, the REL S810 and the audio rack sitting in my garage, the 4 channel amp and TV at the store, might as well stay there, not ready yet. So, now I sit and wait, for hardwood floor guy, when?, I'm not sure, probably later rather than sooner.
The color I picked is called Lazy Caterpillar, I call it Sanitarium Green, nice calming effect.

 

[4-earredwonder]

I guess I can call this completed Phase 1, Floor/wall opened to run 4 Atmos wires, 2 rear surrounds and one rear sub, rough in electrical with 20 amp circuit breaker in, insulation, sheet rock, tape/mud, paint all done. I have been gathering a few items to get ready like my DIY heat shrink cable ends, Rocket22 pants, heat gun, the REL S810 and the audio rack sitting in my garage, the 4 channel amp and TV at the store, might as well stay there, not ready yet. So, now I sit and wait, for hardwood floor guy, when?, I'm not sure, probably later rather than sooner.
The color I picked is called Lazy Caterpillar, I call it Sanitarium Green, nice calming effect.
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I have No doubt, Markie, that your lazy catepillar will soon morph into a beautiful Monarch Butterfly

 

[marpow]

Still in limbo, the hardwood was delivered 10 days ago and will finally installed this Weds. All electrical trim is done. Put base board in on Thursday and then next weekend should make the big move.

 

[marpow]

Finally after a couple months the wiring and body of The Lazy Caterpillar is complete. Today some new engine parts and seats arrive and then this weekend will be rebuilding the new engine with old and new parts. Of course, as you can imagine once set up there will be lots of fine tuning to get her to run sweet.

 

[GOS]

Gonna be really sweet Mark!! Loving hearing about your progress.

 

[marpow]

Had a good day today, unpacked some stuff, seats and TV in, lots of measuring with spikes and pads, measurement city if you know what I mean. Notice the tweeters are aligned with each other, that took months of prep to get that. Nothing hooked up got a long way to go. It took me about 3 hours to get my tweeter thing down. Another 2 hours to align the TV on wall, i am just by my self.

 

[The56Kid]

Had a good day today, unpacked some stuff, seats and TV in, lots of measuring with spikes and pads, measurement city if you know what I mean. Notice the tweeters are aligned with each other, that took months of prep to get that. Nothing hooked up got a long way to go. It took me about 3 hours to get my tweeter thing down. Another 2 hours to align the TV on wall, i am just by my self. View attachment 56258View attachment 56259View attachment 56260View attachment 56261View attachment 56262

Lookin’ awesome, Markie!

 

[GOS]

I can't imagine "building" an audio video room from scratch. Amazing........so cool.

 

[marpow]

Today I worked on cables, what a pain. Remember all my in wall speaker cables where white? Today I put on nylon 1/2" sheath and heat shrink tubing red/black. The rear surrounds will be Bi-Wired but the ceiling speakers will be single red and black as you can only connect bare wire to the ceiling speakers. I have not decided but I might go bare wires to back of the 4 channel amp that will host the ceiling speakers. The front left, center, right front will be Bi-Wired also but with store bought cables Any way very slow process making the in wall cables look pretty.

 

[Sal1950]

Today I worked on cables, what a pain.

If there's one drawback to multich its the dang CABLES. Just wanted to do some simple layout changes of the components and its taken me 2 freakin days to get things right and my brain still hurts. Awe but the 5.2.4 rig is sounding glorious to me.

 

[marpow]

Well I am at the part now which is good and bad. The good is I am making progress at my pace, which is slow and methodical. The bad is the old rig is now torn apart and the new rig is being built= no rig to listen to. I started out the day yesterday finishing some of the DIY speaker cables even with marked tabs from the label maker I bought. Then I pulled apart the old rig and, not pretty. It is a good time to clean everything, I use the Audioquest cleaner for all the terminals. I am having a friend help me today bring two of the amps upstairs as they are too heavy for 1 person.

 

[marpow]

Getting a little closer, got most of the pieces in and going back and forth with cabling. It's the only part of a music system that makes me think, wow, wireless would be so nice and clean, but this is part of my journey. It took me two hours of moving things around just to get my Ethernet switch and cables to what I felt was good.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Getting a little closer, got most of the pieces in and going back and forth with cabling. It's the only part of a music system that makes me think, wow, wireless would be so nice and clean, but this is part of my journey. It took me two hours of moving things around just to get my Ethernet switch and cables to what I felt was good.
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Loving the looks of this Mark, that line up of McIntosh is killer. And so dig the fact you’ve got good space behind your gear, so freakin’ important.