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PCDesmond
Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 4 Location: Reston, VA
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Link Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:07 pm Post subject: A/V Setup |
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Kal,
I noticed in this picture:
Your AV rack in the background. Not to pull you away from any home brew related articles, but perhaps you may have an 'off topic article' on your AV setup sometime in the future?
_________________ Patrick D.
-No Homebrew skill what-so-ever.....yet.
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11123 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Sparky
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 217 Location: Muir Beach, California
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Link Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Kal,
Well - simply - extremely well done! It is great to see the pictures behind build. We do quite a bit of A/V builds, but that one is quite unique!
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11123 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:48 am Post subject: |
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Really? What sort of A/V builds do you do? What's unique about mine? Other than the fact that I use a CRT projector (most use digitals) I thought mine was fairly typical. Most of my ideas and concepts are stolen from others!
Kal
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My basement/bar/brewery build 2.0
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Sparky
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 217 Location: Muir Beach, California
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Link Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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It's the execution that is unique. Most screw it up. No, I take that back, IMO, all screw it up in one way or another - except yours. How much involvement did you have on the construction portion?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11123 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:24 am Post subject: |
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The basement of this house was already framed and drywalled. The bar was already installed too so I was somewhat limited in the space I could use. I moved a few walls, carpeted, built the riser, and did all of the home theater related work and setup including calibration.
Kal
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tri_joel
Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 15 Location: Northern Virginia
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Link Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:16 am Post subject: |
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I "know" Kal from the CurtPalme.com site, he is the one that turned me on to brewing. He was asking some questions about his exhaust fan in an off topic thread over there. I followed that thread, didn't understand a single thing about homebrew. I was (am still actually) remodeling my basement and asked him a few questions about his keg set-up. I wanted to put a kegerator in another room, next thing I knew I was putting together brewing equipment.
The world really has gotten small since the Al Gore invented the Internet.
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Stuttgarter
Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 53 Location: Stuttgart, Germany
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Kal,
You're killing me, SWMBO saw the pictures of your basement and said 'why don't we have a basement like that?' "That's what I want." I said, 'I'm working on it. I'm starting with the electric brewery build first.'
I like your speakers they look like a large version of my Paradigm speakers. What does your suppressor/conditioner do?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11123 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:33 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Stuttgarter"]Kal,
You're killing me, SWMBO saw the pictures of your basement and said 'why don't we have a basement like that?' "That's what I want." I said, 'I'm working on it. I'm starting with the electric brewery build first.' [/quiote]
Anyone woman that tells you they want that... you listen to them!
And beer in the home theater is good too. I don't know how to watch movies without a beer.
Quote: | I like your speakers they look like a large version of my Paradigm speakers. |
That's because mine are Paradigm's too! (Good bang for the buck Canadian manufacturer).
Mine are Paradigm Signature S8 (left/right), C5 (center), and surrounds.
Quote: | What does your suppressor/conditioner do? |
Tells me what the line voltage level is. It really doesn't do any more than that (seriously). Most suppressors/conditioners (including this one) use cheap parts like MOVs (metal oxide varistors) that after a while stop working and did not really do much of any anything useful to begin with. I mostly use it as a way of providing delayed on/off for some of the items and for the pretty lights.
Kal
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Stuttgarter
Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 53 Location: Stuttgart, Germany
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Link Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:53 am Post subject: |
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I move a lot so I use a power conditioner for whenever I'm in a area with dirty power to protect my electronics. I used to get some wild power spikes when I lived in Mexico and Greece. It fried my TV and computer so I bought some protection. It first I thought "oh no they got power problems in Canada" so I had to ask. I love the sound of the Paradigms. You can get better sound quality with other speakers but you'll pay dearly for it.
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