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Sat, 14 November 2020 11:40

petew
Messages: 63
Registered: June 2011
Location: Albuquerque, NM USA

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I'm Back!

Over four years since my last post. Oh how life gets in the way. I did manage to finish the Pi 4, which sounds absolutely great.

I closed my business in early 2017 after nearly 35 years. It was a clean, planned shutdown. I went to work for a giant corporation designing wood trusses. So all is good with work life. But with a career change and other chaos, I never got anything more done on the speaker build.

Forward to 2018, my dishwasher had a valve fail one night and flooded my media room with scalding hot water. Amazingly there was very little damage to equipment but the room got trashed. I only had a bit of water on a subwoofer and one of the surrounds, but the damage was only cosmetic. It took three weeks for the remediation company to get the house dried out.

Since I was "dead in the water" on the theater build, I decided to make the jump to Atmos. So my B&W Nautilus speakers and Emotiva preamp moved upstairs to the living room. I stripped out the damaged finishes from the theater and started planning.

I bought four DIYSG Volt 10 coax speakers with flatpacks for Atmos duty. As of right now those just need final assembly and installation.

I had planned to use discrete amplification with an XMC-2 from Emotiva (later changed my plans to the Monolith HTM-1). But after reading the excellent reviews on the Denon AVR-X3600H I decided to go that route instead with the receiver driving the surround and Atmos speakers. I have an Emotiva XPR-2 stereo amp for the Pi 7 corner horns and will use two channels of my three channel Rotel RB-993 to run the Pi 4 (I split the crossover HF and LF sections during assembly).

I have the AV side of my equipment rack just about completely built out with equipment mounted. Now I will finish and install the Atmos speakers, then get the Pi 7's completed. Once I get the sound system set up I will do acoustic tweaks as needed, then move on to video projection and finishes.

I'll be posting details and more pictures as I go!

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		Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 27 June 2011 09:40
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 27 June 2011 11:05
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 27 June 2011 11:31
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 27 June 2011 12:33
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 05 March 2013 10:50
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Tue, 05 March 2013 10:54
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 11 March 2013 10:06
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 11 March 2013 10:34
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 03 June 2013 20:08
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Tue, 04 June 2013 08:55
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Wed, 05 June 2013 22:35
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Thu, 06 June 2013 01:28
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Thu, 06 June 2013 13:37
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Thu, 06 June 2013 18:54
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Fri, 07 June 2013 12:42
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Fri, 07 June 2013 13:35
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Fri, 07 June 2013 14:16
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Fri, 07 June 2013 15:04
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: rkeman on Fri, 07 June 2013 22:09
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 10 June 2013 16:58
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 10 June 2013 17:55
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 17 June 2013 10:40
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Mon, 17 June 2013 11:33
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Mon, 17 June 2013 23:13
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Tue, 18 June 2013 08:20
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 18 June 2013 18:47
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Wed, 19 June 2013 14:37
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Wed, 19 June 2013 15:08
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Wed, 19 June 2013 15:59
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Wed, 10 July 2013 20:04
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Wed, 10 July 2013 20:31
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: dheflin44 on Thu, 11 July 2013 08:34
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Thu, 11 July 2013 12:48
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Thu, 11 July 2013 18:39
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 17 August 2013 09:47
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Sat, 17 August 2013 14:02
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: rkeman on Sat, 17 August 2013 15:58
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 17 August 2013 18:00
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 12 October 2013 19:36
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Sun, 13 October 2013 10:25
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 04 February 2014 18:28
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Fri, 07 February 2014 12:04
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 01 July 2014 19:22
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Wed, 02 July 2014 09:33
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Fri, 04 July 2014 14:03
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Sat, 05 July 2014 10:30
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Thu, 10 July 2014 10:47
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: NWCgrad on Fri, 29 August 2014 20:02
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 06 September 2014 11:00
		Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 17 March 2015 18:45
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: NWCgrad on Sun, 19 April 2015 13:50
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Thu, 31 March 2016 12:58
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: Wayne Parham on Fri, 13 May 2016 10:50
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Tue, 23 August 2016 20:27
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 14 November 2020 11:40
		Re: Pete's Home Theater Build By: petew on Sat, 14 November 2020 12:02

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