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It's really hard right now to work on the HT. Besides watching more movies in the last few days than I have in the last 3 months. My wife keeps inviting people over to check it out. The problem is that I usually have the thing apart when they show up and I'm forced to put it back together again. For someone who was not all that interested, feigning indifference and tell everyone it's my project, I think she's more exited about it than I am.

Oh, here's the seating setup.




I'm still trying to figure out the exact placement. May have to move the front row back a bit for a few reasons:

• when the seats are extended walking past them puts you in line of sight of the projector. The laser is pretty powerful and can ruin your eyes.
• My wife already thinks the screen is too close and it's only going to get closer when I move it off the wall 6 to 8 inches to put a center behind it
• Music wise the LFRs are not imaging enough at the front seats. I'm still working on it. The back seats are imaging well.

Keeping me from moving them back too far is that if I replace the old couch in the 2nd row with seats similar to the front row, I might be outside of my listening window.

Thanks Trevor. The sound is awesome but I’m sure I can get better. Before I had the seats in, a hand clap took around over a second to die down. Haven’t tried it with the seats as I was too busy watching stuff.

I’m looking forward to doing the tuning to see what can be done … especially for 2 channel listening. But it will be a while. Have to finalize the placement of the seats and modify/finish the platform before getting carpet. I was saving a rug to use temporarily in front but the moths got tor it before I did. Anyway, as done as it is … there is still an amazing amount of stuff to do.

DreamScreen UltraWeave V7

After researching AT screens I had a couple of concerns: having enough lumen/screen gain, for my screen size, to achieve HDR and having a having a fine enough screen texture not to see it or have moire issues with 4k and beyond.

Without testing these things myself, I needed to rely on others to do side by side comparisons since a lot of screen manufacturer exaggerate their gain numbers (Some to the point of being fraudulent … like the 1.3 screen sample which looked darker then the .97screen it was taped to). I searched for recommended viewing distance to screen size because I wanted to sit closer than most (a 1.1 viewing distance to screen width). Many screens were silent on this spec. Some, like the elite UHD AT screen, If you search hard enough quoted recommended viewing distances much greater than this. This screen was something like >1.5 if I remember it correctly.

After working though many choices, I decided on the UltraWeave material. Unfortunately, it also blew my screen budget.

Love that whole winch and crane system. If i could have a portable one around my waist to save my back from just having lifted my ADA1500, now THAT would be engineering!

This house is a completely new one built exactly where our old house was. Both had/have walk out basements in the back. The old house had a garage in the basement which exited to the back. Half the backyard was blacktop. Getting machinery and materials into the shop was easy since you could drop it right in front of the shop door. The backyard in the new house is all garden, stepping stones and permeable patio. There is no way to bring a 700lb machine into the shop that way and I didn't want to ruin my vision of a natural outdoor space by creating one. So, I put in an I beam trolly system at the back of the garage. It works quite well and gets used more than I thought it would.

I think i'm almost more keen on seeing some pics of this beam system in action than the HT, almost.

After having lifted the Parasound Halo A21 into place (about 65lbs), bent over, cramped close to the floor, fingers barely fitting along the sides, i think there needs to be better solutions for this heavy gear.
Even the ADA1500 coming in at near 60lbs too, well, my back isn't getting any younger.

Rumor has it Rich's room sounds worse than before he finished it.

It’s not finished so your rumor is a bit premature

I just boxed up my VP180hp since I traded it in for a VP180ow (so I can put it behind the screen).
Unfortunately, the on-wall has been sitting for a few weeks now waiting for me to install it.
Need to make that a priority …

Is the 180OW HP?