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AndySooty commented on david livingston jr.'s photo
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"I like the sound of Mach II, a friend used to have pair in the late 80's to early 90's then sold them for a pair of bookshelf speakers mounted on the walls.
I recall taking a few VHS tapes around to listen on Mach II, The Living Daylights…"
AndySooty commented on david livingston jr.'s photoPicture 031
"Blimey it looks a bit like a Realistic Mach II 15" bass driver. What the HF horn at the top JBL? The middle HF horn? I see the L-pad is that the same used on the Mach II speakers?"
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"Nice looking rare Realistic loudspeaker. Some of their products weren't all that bad.
Only a couple of weeks ago I saw pair of Mach II going for £50.00 I inspect the drivers and to no surprise the edge foam was gone on one of them…"
AndySooty commented on Ben Hobbs's photo
Home Cinema - East Phuket
"Prometheus (2012)n I've only watched it twice in the last few days.
First row close to the front so you can get the widest stereo front?
Nice lamented flooring."
AndySooty commented on Ben Hobbs's photo
Home Cinema - Rawai
"I like the suspended ceiling with middle opening panted ceiling with, is it Fibre-optics or small grain of rice lighting I would guess fibre-optics.
Does the lighting change colour for mood settings?
I see so the flooring for the first level…"
AndySooty commented on Ben Hobbs's photo
Home Cinema - Rawai
"Its a very shallow depth with what you had to work around with I gather but the design of it is very nice indeed. It looks like 15 feet length from wall to screen maybe less as the screen would reduce the size of the room.
I like the two level…"
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- Tell us about your Home Theater
- Chimney breast to left of room is sound challenge as I have to work off the chimney breast and make the remaining last front of the room appear to be one large wall.
Doable glaze window might as well be paper which needs to be blocked up with x2 layers of MDF at different levels to reduce as much traffic sound as possible.
Acoustical tiles are fitted at different angles on side and rear wall and a few on the ceiling near to the front.
Directional sound across LCR fronts is pleasant not too high on the HF as there very sensitive at 109db LF is good for 102db sensitivity to play loud passages clearly as and when on the mix or as and when, when I’m in a good mood!
Sub bass JBL 4645 decent low end that manages a small amount at 10Hz thou not at high SPL 20Hz a little higher 36 a bit higher and throughout makes floor sometimes vibrate and its concrete based. Seating gets a good feel from seat to seat which I personally check out myself.
Surrounds provide uniform surround just like what you’d come to expect from a cinema. I grew frustrated with dipolar/bipolar surrounds I set out to install monopoles and has been quite successful at making me look extreme left to right when sounds whoosh along (like the U.S.S. Enterprise in the opening of original STAR TREK tv show in DOLBY 5.1)
Centre back provides even uniform coverage and would be great once the rest of the cinema seats are fitted in there should be solid firm rear back from matrix Dolby-EX to discrete dts-ES and TrueHD/dts hd ma 8channel.
Overhead surrounds few films I have noticed that have some anti-phase within the mix that sends the sound information to rear surround circuitry that is now routed to play as overhead surround. Works nicely on Eraser (1996)
- Tell us about your Listening Room
- Still working on a little bit at time with recently installed acoustical wedge shape foam tiles x30 which has reduced some echo reverb still have the floor to carpet with carpet tiles once the MDF flooring as been placed down for the x6 Irwin cinema rocker seats.
Room is
15 feet long
10 feet 2 inches wide
8 feet 8 inches high
Chimney breast to left of room is sound challenge as I have to work off the chimney breast and make the remaining last front of the room appear to be one large wall.
Doable glaze window might as well be paper which needs to be blocked up with x2 layers of MDF at different levels to reduce as much traffic sound as possible.
Acoustical tiles are fitted at different angles on side and rear wall and a few on the ceiling near to the front.
- Tell us about your equipment
- Audio processors
Yamaha RX-V650 main AVR
Yamaha DSR-70 front preamp left/right
Yamaha DSR-70 sidewall surrounds for matrix overhead surrounds on 5.1 / 6.1 and any 8.1 mixes its all good fun
Yamaha DSP-100 front preamp centre
Kenwood KRF-X9050D now serves as 4 zone surround amp
Pioneer VSP-200 now waiting for a new use?
Harman-Kardon AVP1a Dolby pro-logic THX now awaiting a new role in the sound system
JVC Sea-E30 extra surround back trim
Technics SH-8055 back halve surround EQ
Amplifiers
Alesis RA300 left/right front LF
Alesis RA300 centre front LF / overhead surround
Alesis RA300 sub bass / LFE.1 in bridge mode
Marantz 1050 lefr/right front HF
Marantz 1050 centre front HF
Marantz 1030 now waiting for a new use?
Additional audio processors
Behringer DCX2496 LCR front loudspeaker management crossover system
Behringer MDX4600 LCR /sub LFE.1 audio limiter compressor as and when I need it
Behringer GEQ3102 31 band 1/3 sidewall surrounds
Behringer FBQ2496 parametric EQ channel A LCRS sub bass extension / channel B sub bass and LFE.1
Realistic 6 channel audio mixer for LCRS sub bass extension (soon to be replaced with second DCX2496)
Media players
Phillips BDP7300 DVD/bluray player with 6channel DOLBY TrueHD 6.1 / dts hd master audio 6.1 decoder in active use
Sony BDP-S550 DVD/Bluray player with 8channel DOLBY TrueHD 6.1 / dts hd master audio 7.1 decoder in active use
Sony DVP-S336 DVD player bedroom DVD player
Pioneer DLV-909 CD/DVD Laserdisc player in active use
Pioneer CLD-1750 Laserdisc player (needs a few basic parts to get it up and running again)
Pioneer CLD-2950 Laserdisc player (needs a few basic parts to get it up and running again)
Pioneer DV-515 DVD player multi-regional player in active use
Pioneer DV-525 DVD player waiting for new use
Yamada DVR-9300HK DVD/recorder player
Cello DVR810 (needs a new power supply module)
Video monitoring
Hitachi XGA CP-X430 HD ready only 1080i gets little use only for special shows
Panasonic widescreen CRT 32”
Sony CRT 29” for bedroom
Loudspeakers
JBL sound system main room
JBL control 5 x5 inactive at present time, I’m thinking for a new role in the sound system for them to play as?
JBL Control 12SR modified to run as separate LF / HF with the Beringer DCX2496 x4 only x3 are used for LCR at present looking for two more for 5-screen matrix for special film showings
JBL Control 1 x10 Surrounds all are fitted at equal height and aimed downwards for uniform defused surround
x3 for left sidewall wired in series
3x for right sidewall wired in series
x4 for back wall in two halves each side wired in series
x2 for overhead matrix surround wired in series
JBL diy 4645 sub bass 18” sub bass / LFE.1
JBL GTO1202D x2 LCRS sub bass extension
Tools
Realistic analogue SPL db metre
Behringer ECM8000 calibration microphone
Behringer MIC100 (need a new one)!
Test discs
dts demo music and calibration set-up disc
THX bluray set-up disc
- Tell us about you....job,hobbies,family,etc.
- Highlight working for UCI as projectionist late 80’s and then for Warner Bros in late 90’s. No longer interested in cinema today all seems like fast food with films coming in and out.
Now and then I take the telescope out to gaze and look back at expanding space and time!
My cat Sooty is best mate I have had he’s a handful at times but sweetly adorable companion.
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Dolby CP45 re-wiring surrounds
I've recently wired the non-sync or taken two extra wires from the non-sync input and wired them onto one of the two inputs on format 61 AUX left and right so I can switch the decoders Dolby pro-logic to normal surround mode.
I've been thinking of another technique to wiring AUX so I can run the normal surround mode with rear surrounds as it would be in common cinema.
Snag is the outputting of channels that would need a little more thought processing to make sure it runs…
ContinuePosted on May 13, 2012 at 7:51pm — 2 Comments
eBay chamber of horrors! JBL G-125
Sigh after spending £75.00 and postal UPS delivery of £10.00 for an almost knackered busted in cone on a JBL G-125.
I mean look at the packing for starters! WTF is these tubes doing inside the box? And yes I have spoken to the company that sold me it. They said like anyone would “send it back and we’ll refund you”.
That’s not the point or principle I’m talking about.
If you look at the why its described in the sale not very photo creative are they. I bet the cone was…
ContinuePosted on December 13, 2011 at 9:02am
Transformers Dark of the Moon (2011( a sheer DOLBY TrueHD 7.1 delight of listening fun
154mins of near sheer transforming Dolby TrueHD8channel Just Bloody Loudness JBL!
This bluray DOLBY TrueHD 7.1 is wicked! While I kept A weighting around an optimum peak 85db C weighting was tipping in on some channels soporifically LFE.1 on some scenes over 105dbc which was plenty loud enough against the LCR fronts that can easily if I wanted them to put some chesty bass/mid at 105dbc but for t......oday I preferred to keep them down bit. The LCRS sub bass extension produced some…
ContinuePosted on November 29, 2011 at 5:32pm — 3 Comments
COMA (1978) MONO MIX should get a new DOLBY TrueHD 7.1 (ONLY) in five-screen special
I watch the film mostly each week for a few days as its very well nicely produced mono film mix, dialogue effects and Jerry Goldsmith score is smoothly balanced in the mono film mix, but wouldn’t it be nice to have DOLBY TrueHD 7.1 (ONLY) only with special mix 7.1 using five-screen fronts and ordinary stereo surrounds as most of the action takes place over the screen area and five-screen would work very well in DOLBY TrueHD the best sound format made!
The film could spread…
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 3:00am
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