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Couple more additions to the decor. And a big thanks to mheadroom for making these signs available. If you haven't already seen them, check out the thread at http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1062844.

Some updates.

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"You know what else they call lightish red? Pink" Loved that series.

@rhouck, I've found the reflections off the ceiling to be minimal. They're there but they don't bother me enough to paint the ceiling. The wall paint alone was an extremely vast improvement over all my previous setups. @Ricky, thanks. It was a lot of fun to build. Still got some more work...

http://store.antec.com/Category/accessory-veris_media.aspx I have the veris basic because I didn't need the screen but it seems to work great for me. I have it programmed to my harmony remote and never have troubles with it.

I use a dedicated HTPC but I think once ATV goes 1080p I'll probably switch to those for power and noise reduction.

I use Ember Media Manager. The main project was abandoned but was kept alive by some forum members. It's still the best program that I've come across so far.

I have screen envy. I should built a bigger screen now that I don't have to worry about having it hang across windows or anything. I used those exact side tables as speaker stands in my last apartment too.

Almost forgot.

@TESLA, they actually sound a lot better on the sides like they are. In my last apartment they were ok up on the shelf but weren't very immersive but now it brings the sound to the right levels and really sounds like you're there. I was going to try putting them next to the couch but I plan on...

Dedicated room, finally. No more cramming stuff into my apartment or having to deal with white walls and mounting my projector on shelves. Tore out the closet and all the built in shelving. Pulled all the hardwood floors out and put in carpet. Took out the ceiling lights and put in 6 can...

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Black Polk Lsi9, LsiC, and LsiF/X speakers for sale. Great condition, tops and bottoms have some scuff marks but only noticeable close up. Probably 8 or 9 out of 10 cosmetically. Speakers work perfectly and grills have no tears in them. Looking to get $1500 obo. Would prefer local pickup or...

My elite is the VSX-72TXV but as for ICE modules I have no idea. I'm sure that I'm underpowering them because the receiver is set on 6ohms, and the speakers are 4ohms. ASIO drivers, no idea what that is. I'm just running the drivers that came with the card. The room is hard to explain...

I agree that the LSi's are really good but like I said it feels like something just isn't quite right. Why did you get rid of your LSi's and what did you go to? I ran autocalibration if that's what you mean by phase checking. Due to the way the room is laid out, the speakers are closer...

I've been told that the reason is because I'm not giving the speakers enough power, because LSi's love a lot of power. I don't really know. I was thinking about getting an amp to try to open the speakers up a bit more, but I'm also thinking about just ditching the LSi's and getting something...

I have a really cheap pci-e soundcard. I didn't think it mattered when running optical because the card wasn't doing any processing of it's own, just passing the signal along to the receiver.

Found out that Media Player Classic must have been adding replay gain as you said. Tried it in VLC which had replay gain off and the volumes were exactly the same. Tried comparing some more music and still can't really hear the difference. Maybe my equipment just isn't very revealing...

My wife and I go to the movies about twice a month as a kind of date night thing. However, the total cost of this per month 28 dollars. So for $28 I get 4 tickets, 2 large popcorn, and 2 large cokes on the month. It's all about finding the right theater. When tickets are $2 dollars or less...

Any other recommendations to try? Another software with different settings or something? I have no problem ripping to FLAC if it makes a difference, but from what I've heard so far there is no audible difference to warrant 4-6 times the file size. I feel like I have good equipment that should...

Using MediaMonkey to convert it. Settings: Compatible: CBR 128 kbps - Average Quality Preset That's all it tells me in settings.

Yea I took the flac, converted a copy to 128kbps, and then AB'd (not ABX yet) the two on my surround sound using XBMC (same volume no difference I could notice) and VLC (flac was 10db louder, but still no sound difference). Possibly a setting issue? Or is it just that newer source material has...

Not a troll post despite the title. I have a pair of polk LSi9's running biamped off a pioneer elite receiver. The sound is coming from my HTPC via optical cable. And after hearing people rave on how FLAC is "night and day" better than 128kbps mp3, I decided I better try it out. So I figured...

An i7 for a HTPC? And I thought my AMD 5200 was overkill... But seriously, depending on the software and what you want to do with it, take a look at XBMC with their new AppleTV2 software. $100 bucks for the hardware, free software, and a slick interface. Run it 24/7 for a year on about 10...

Throw up some pictures once you get everything installed. I know a lot of people around here love to see other people's setups. Good choice on the Yamaha, it actually sounds like you got a receiver/speaker package rather than the HTIB you mentioned before.

Depends where you are. There absolutely are places you can find all 3 setup to listen to. If you live in the midwest, check out American TV and Appliance. I used to work at one and if you could buy it, they had it set up to listen to. You might not find every brand, but the general setups to...

Best bet is to go to an audio shop where they have systems set up properly that you can listen to. Listen to the Soundbars, listen to HTIB's, and listen to separates. Just remember, with soundbars and HTIB's, once you buy it, you're done and if you change your mind later, you buy all new...

I agree with the posts recommending you to avoid HTIB if at all possible. But I also understand that some people aren't as into this hobby as the rest of us and we sometimes forget it. Thing you need to consider first is "Is 200-400 my ABSOLUTE budget, or is it my RIGHT NOW budget?" If it is...

I have an 8800gt with an amd 5200 and it runs even really high bitrate stuff without breaking a sweat. Update your codecs and playback software and you should be good to go. Keep in mind some software needs to have hardware decoding enabled in it's settings. Let us know what you're using and...

I don't use it personally, I'm too picky about bitrates and metadata formatting. But for those who aren't OCD it is a great piece of software.

CouchPotato Automatically searches, finds, downloads, sorts, renames, and gets metadata for Movies SickBeard Automatically searches, finds, downloads, sorts, renames, and gets metadata for TV Shows TVRename Renames, sorts, and lets you know what episodes your missing for your tv series

I agree with Demon, I used to work for Hastings and they had some of the best prices on movies around. On DVD's and video games they used to run buy 2 get 1 and buy 1 get 1 deals all the time. They run the same deals online. All disks are guaranteed to work and be in good condition. We...

That could work, but the projector is our primary video display so it gets every day. I actually don't own a tv. So the fabric would basically be up permanently and I don't think I should push the WAF that far. Plus it looks VASTLY better than the projector we had there in it's place before...

X or letter format work really well( 2x01 or s02e01) How mine are named TV -->Show -->Season 1 --> Show Name - 1x01 - Episode Name Great program for renaming massive number of TV files is a program TV Rename. The other program I use if TV Rename doesn't catch the title is FileRenamer to...

That might work. Even horizontally it would look ok. I think it would fit in the equipment rack like that too.

That's a pretty good idea on how to tackle that. I'm still waiting for them to drop in price or find one used. I don't really want to get a $200+ case and start cutting it up. For that much I could just get 2 of the smaller Antec NSK2400's, put all the harddrives in one, put all the gear in...

If I can manage to get everything arranged well enough I'm hoping for 1 SSD and 12 green drives as storage. I have them in a Stacker 810 right now which doesn't look the sleekest. If I get everything measured and it looks like there is no way I can fit them all in the fusion and still get...