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HT Day 5: It’s no vacation

2004-12-17
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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I took my first real vacation day of the entire year today. I used up the rest of my vacation during a school-related trip to China this summer and it sure was nice to have a 3-day weekend. Nicole was off from work as well and we got started early on house-related projects. I worked on the platform again and though I would get the whole thing finished, but then realized that it would take more work than I expected with the rope lighting and tactile transducers. I decided to vibration isolate the top of the platfrom from the base so that the tactile transducersRead More →

HT Day 4: I watch

2004-12-15
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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Kyle and Nicole worked on the soffit most of the evening. This was my last night on campus for my MBA! So I went out with some classmates and had a couple of beers to celebrate. I wa surprised how much work they accomplished — they were still working when I got home at 10:45!Read More →

HT Day 3: Soffit and Platform

2004-12-13
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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Kyle got to the house about the same time I did. He started working on the soffit around the back half of the room and I worked some on the platform. He and I removed the mirrors from the side wall without too much trouble – except for the one that scared us when it popped off all at once. We were expecting it to slowy peel-off the way the other 5 did and thought we were going to have 4′ x 6′ of broken glass on and around us.Read More →

HT Day 2: Platform Building

2004-12-12
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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I started building the platform base. I finished up the 4 sides of the base while my brother-in-law Gregory and I watched the Colts game. I should have worked later but he and I want to see Oceans 12 instead.Read More →

HT Day 1: Starting my Home Theater

2004-12-11
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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After of several weeks of planning for components and room deisng, I’m actually starting the project. I’ve been wanting to convert the exercise room in our basement to a home theater since the first time I walked through the house 6 months ago. Nicole is in full support, although she initially wanted it to be her art studio. She likes home theater quite a bit and will be helping with the construction. Our frined Kyle is helping out is well. His real job is a home builder so his insight and assistance will be invaluable. I went to Home Depot and purchased the lumber neededRead More →

Thinking about my next theater

2004-07-04
By: Carlton Bale
In: Home Theater
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I’ve spent some time over the past couple of weeks figuring out how to install components into my new house. I’m starting to pick what components I might want to upgrade and how to integrate everything. My trusty Onkyo TH-DX939 is getting long in the tooth. I’m been very pleased with it over the years and was thinking of another Onkyo but really wanted a little more flexibility and performance. I recently realized that Integra and Integra Research were Onkyo brands with more performance. The flagship brand is Integra Research and their new RDC-7.1 appears to be an amazing processor with the modular expansion cardsRead More →

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