[chickwhite]

So, here I start my home theater room PLOG. The garage door is removed.

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This post has been edited by chickwhite: 24 July 2006 - 02:09 AM

[chickwhite]

Now removing drywall and insulation from the ceiling.

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Framing the garage door.

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[chickwhite]

Right side wall framing. Removed dry wall. Added more power outlets. The green wire is speaker wire for the stereo.

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[chickwhite]

Left side wall. Big cutout for a bay window - for the wife factor.

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[chickwhite]

Speaker wires and signal wires at the equipment position. Note that the speaker and signal wires cross at right angles to the power line wires. Where they run parallel to each other, they are separated by a minimum distance of 18 incles. In this picture, I made the electrician run the wires straight down until they got to the height where they were running horizontal. This gave a separation of over two feet rather than about 8 inches. It probably would have been fine but the walls were open and it only took a few minutes to make the change.

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This post has been edited by chickwhite: 23 July 2006 - 03:55 PM

[chickwhite]

Drywall at the equipemnt postition. Green wires for 7.1 channel audio. RG6U and CAT5e wire to go to the projector on the ceiling. Two power outlets. One is a dedicated 20 amp circuit for lots of power to the audio.

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This post has been edited by chickwhite: 13 June 2006 - 04:42 AM

[chickwhite]

Projector position. Coax cables (for VGA), CAT5e cable for control signals and power outlet for the projector.

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[chickwhite]

Walls and ceiling started to be painted. Dark burgundy on walls and dark blue on ceiling (wife approved).

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[chickwhite]

Now for something a little different. I bought an electronic ballast on ebay and the Ushio bulb from LumenLab. Here is the room lit by the Ushio bulb. The purple and blue are easily seen. The eye doesn't perceive the color as being that light.

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This is more like the eye's perception except for the ceiling closest to the bulb which still looks light.

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Here is the wall with the silver screen paint (Kelly paint version of the Behr paint).

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Here is the camera pointed at the Ushio lamp. I think this is a pretty cool picture.

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[chickwhite]

About 6 weeks ago, I bought a pair of Acoustat 1+1 electrostatic loudspeakers on ebay. My wife and I drove to New Orleans to pick them up. We made a mini-vacation of it. We stayed at the Bourbon Hotel on Bourbon street. When we got there, the hotel upgraded our room to a two story suite (we paid $116 a night for the room). Here is a picture of the base of one of the speakers. The previous owner has recovered the speaker with a light grill cloth. I wanted to change it to black. I already owned a pair of these speakers that I had bought 20 years ago last July. I still haven't found any speakers that I can afford as much as I like these - if you want to hear what they can do, you need to power them with at least a 200W RMS continuous per channel amp. The minimum recommended power is 100W.

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Opening the base to expose the power supply which puts the 1+KV bias on the electrostatic panel.

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Here the grill cloth is removed and the panel is removed from the base.

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A view of the front of the panel.

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Another view of the front of the panel. Yes, that is my reflection on the tv set. The painting is one that my wife and I bought from an artist in Canada on ebay.

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I bought 6 yards of black grill cloth on the internet. Here is the sewing position.

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A faily close up view of the panel from the front.

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Here you can see three of the Acoustats standing, nearly touching the ceiling. No new socks on yet.

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Here is the speaker with the grill cloth sock being slid over the frame. The first one was a b...h.

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Another view of the speaker with the grill sock partially in place.

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[chickwhite]

Here are all four speakers in black. Three of them have new grill cloth covers. The third one from the left still has the old black grill cloth on it. The cover is sewn. I just have to take the last one apart and put the final new grill cloth on it.

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[Regulator]

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