Booyaka's Garage to Family Entertainment Suite Thread
- Thread starter booyaka
- Start date
That is harsh, this thread is delivering! Don't want to blow the load too soon... You need to take your time and get it right
thanks - flooring finished, 2 coats of paint today on the walls - should hopefully (wife agreeing) just need a quick 3rd coat/touch up
and then it should just be about a few other bits of painting/varnishing etc before we get the kit installed.
Right - 3 coat of white paint later and all the flooring finished in the room things are getting towards the final few steps.
Some lovely solid oak flooring all finished
On to the fun parts - unboxing all the speakers etc
Ceiling mounted rears - all the cavities in the roof around the speaker stuff solid with rockwool to help with acoustics
Mounted in place with the directional tweeters pointing down towards the seating area.
Grills on the speakers and flush mounted into the ceiling.
Next up the 3 front speakers - again very well packaged, and very simple to install in place.
All three in place and TV up and running.
Will potentially have to take the speakers at the front back out and fit them again as they are a bit of a tight fit and when I try to put the grills on them the grills are buckling slightly as they speaker units as very slightly to tightly fitted.
Anyway - all heading in the right direction and hopefully with a good few hours at it on sunday or so should get the amp installed and hopefully fired up.
A visit to IKEA today and purchase a computer desk for the office part of the room, new chair and also a 3 seater sofa and footstool - sofa will be approx 6 weeks till we get it but visited a few furniture shops this week and most quoting 12-14 weeks for a sofa!!! :blink:
Some lovely solid oak flooring all finished
On to the fun parts - unboxing all the speakers etc
Ceiling mounted rears - all the cavities in the roof around the speaker stuff solid with rockwool to help with acoustics
Mounted in place with the directional tweeters pointing down towards the seating area.
Grills on the speakers and flush mounted into the ceiling.
Next up the 3 front speakers - again very well packaged, and very simple to install in place.
All three in place and TV up and running.
Will potentially have to take the speakers at the front back out and fit them again as they are a bit of a tight fit and when I try to put the grills on them the grills are buckling slightly as they speaker units as very slightly to tightly fitted.
Anyway - all heading in the right direction and hopefully with a good few hours at it on sunday or so should get the amp installed and hopefully fired up.
A visit to IKEA today and purchase a computer desk for the office part of the room, new chair and also a 3 seater sofa and footstool - sofa will be approx 6 weeks till we get it but visited a few furniture shops this week and most quoting 12-14 weeks for a sofa!!! :blink:
Associate
- Joined
- 8 Oct 2009
- Posts
- 865
why all the negativity???
Well done mate, really love what you've done with the place!
Can't wait to see it finished!
Well done mate, really love what you've done with the place!
Can't wait to see it finished!
says who?
So i should have gone for shoddy workmanship, less equipment but a big shiney projector to fit my budget!!
Thanks - can't believe that 5 weeks ago it was an empty garage!!
says who?
So i should have gone for shoddy workmanship, less equipment but a big shiney projector to fit my budget!!
Ive never seen a cinema that uses a television - thats called a lounge.
No you should have spent the money you spent on a television on a projector.
Soldato
- Joined
- 2 Apr 2006
- Posts
- 3,748
The image you are projecting is of someone spoiling for an argument.
Not sure why people are banging on about a projector at this stage, the OP already has his large tv and has already mentioned he could look at getting a projector in the future. Great job BTW, I'm sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment out of it once it's finished. 
Spent nearly 5 hours this afternoon hooking everything up! Had a few ups and downs along the way with regards all the cabling!!
Some amount of wiring
9 lots of network cabling
5 lots of speaker wire plus sub (still the be hooked up)
8 power cables
IR extender plus all the wiring for that
16 port giga bit switch
Various other amounts of cabling etc.
Fired it up for the 1st time and thankfully, we have sound in all 5 speakers - not actually set it up/configured anything yet but that was a good start!!
Some pictures and more questions to follow no doubt.
Some amount of wiring
9 lots of network cabling
5 lots of speaker wire plus sub (still the be hooked up)
8 power cables
IR extender plus all the wiring for that
16 port giga bit switch
Various other amounts of cabling etc.
Fired it up for the 1st time and thankfully, we have sound in all 5 speakers - not actually set it up/configured anything yet but that was a good start!!
Some pictures and more questions to follow no doubt.
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Jan 2009
- Posts
- 7,059
The wooden flooring looks great,All comming along nicely now by the looks of it 
We want to also have out garage converted but into a Kitchen,But just dont have the funds!..one day though.
We want to also have out garage converted but into a Kitchen,But just dont have the funds!..one day though.
The wooden flooring looks great,All comming along nicely now by the looks of it
We want to also have out garage converted but into a Kitchen,But just dont have the funds!..one day though.
cheers for that.
sub came out the box tonight (BK XXLS400) and 30 mins "discussion" ensued about her not being happy with it!!
Anyway - connected it up but seems to be a problem - can't get any sound from it. Admittedly, not had a chance to check all the connections, settings properly etc but in the calibration settings - using supplied mic from the Onkyo - all 5 speakers work but nothing from the sub.
Will investigate more tomorrow night (back at work tomorrow after 2 weeks off), and see if I can work out what's wrong.
Pictures tomorrow with updates
Associate
- Joined
- 17 Dec 2010
- Posts
- 443
- Location
- Northampton UK
Some subs only output audio when the low frequencies are detected. My Cambridge Audio S80 does the same thing. Maybe this is the case with yours??
HTH
HTH
Associate
- Joined
- 6 Sep 2011
- Posts
- 44
When you tested with the mic, did the the sub not rumble?
I had a similair problem. Pioneer amp and Kef 2005.3 with Kube 2 sub - sub didnt make any noise under testing. Took it back and it was faulty. Did the same test and hey presto some loud vibrations.
Room thread is great by the way. Would be interested to know how the ceiling speakers give the effect of surround sound
I had a similair problem. Pioneer amp and Kef 2005.3 with Kube 2 sub - sub didnt make any noise under testing. Took it back and it was faulty. Did the same test and hey presto some loud vibrations.
Room thread is great by the way. Would be interested to know how the ceiling speakers give the effect of surround sound
will have a play shortly (once kids in bed) and let you know how I get on.
TV will be slightly above eye level but nothing major, it would have been difficult to get it bang on eye level and then still get a centre speaker in the wall as well.#
I see you have the same sub - can you tell me what settings you have dialled in on the back of the sub - just so I can get a rough idea before I start playing with it
not sure what was wrong yesterday but sub appear to fire up fine tonight after tweeking a few of the settings on the back of it. Nearly crapped myself when it emitted it's virgin low rumble!!!
Back at work today so not been able to do to much - hopefully should have some time during the week to have a play properly and will get some pictures up asap.
Back at work today so not been able to do to much - hopefully should have some time during the week to have a play properly and will get some pictures up asap.