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Hey guys, Big update :O, sorry for the delay !
well ive got most things up and running now. and progress is this:
- Fitted desk
- finished hi-fi
- temporarily set up projector until i get a mount for it
- radiator lowered and replaced
Still to do:
- wire up lights on the screen housing
- touch up some damaged paint
- mount projector
- new furniture
- new interconnect for t/t
I was playing about with my pc and projector and well, i guess everyone was right ! PC's are great for home theater! i hooked the PJ up tot he spare output on my graphics card and accidentally found 'theater mode' in the catylist drivers. all i can say is WOW !
For anyone not in the know - it pretty much picks up any video source on your PC and puts only that video out to whichever output you like
so this works for DVD's
downloaded video media
some streaming internet video
SO in short, i have taken your advice and im sticking with my PC, and loosing the surround sound idea for now.
Hi-Fi
I am still waiting for the hi-fi dealer to get my silver CD player in to replace this temporary black one ivce got. so no progress here
Although on a good note ( no pun intended) i bought some Nordost speaker cables, which i can honestly say have been the single most effective upgrade to the system YET ( i ran my old gale linea 4 cables head to head against them and just WOW :0 )
The latest ( and possibly last) addition tot he system is a Pro-ject 2 Xperience turntable, although i will probably add a separate phono stage to it in due course
All this writing and no pics yet - you must be sick !
The first one is a small snippet of screaming video from t'internet through to the projector. because of the small resolutions from the streaming video, the picture produced is clear as a bell ! i have left my computer screen turned on and you can just about make out the scene from 'family guy' in the top left of the screen which is being extracted and projected by some magic stuff within the catylist drivers.
Here is my hi-fi set up so far, still need to sort the wires out behind and under my desk but ill save that for when ive run out of things to watch and listen to lol
( pro-ject 2 xperience turntable+Marantz 5001 CD player>QED silver spiral>Marantz 4001 amp> Nordost 2flat cables > Mordaunt Short MS20i w/ spiked platforms)
Heres my big desk i have waited so long for !
i absolutely love it ! just so much space, but due to my bad habits it doesn't take long before its covered in CD's and glasses and general junk. It also catches a fair amount of dust too but i have a new carpet so that could be one reason for it.
well ive got most things up and running now. and progress is this:
- Fitted desk
- finished hi-fi
- temporarily set up projector until i get a mount for it
- radiator lowered and replaced
Still to do:
- wire up lights on the screen housing
- touch up some damaged paint
- mount projector
- new furniture
- new interconnect for t/t
I was playing about with my pc and projector and well, i guess everyone was right ! PC's are great for home theater! i hooked the PJ up tot he spare output on my graphics card and accidentally found 'theater mode' in the catylist drivers. all i can say is WOW !
For anyone not in the know - it pretty much picks up any video source on your PC and puts only that video out to whichever output you like
so this works for DVD's
downloaded video media
some streaming internet video
SO in short, i have taken your advice and im sticking with my PC, and loosing the surround sound idea for now.
Hi-Fi
I am still waiting for the hi-fi dealer to get my silver CD player in to replace this temporary black one ivce got. so no progress here
Although on a good note ( no pun intended) i bought some Nordost speaker cables, which i can honestly say have been the single most effective upgrade to the system YET ( i ran my old gale linea 4 cables head to head against them and just WOW :0 )
The latest ( and possibly last) addition tot he system is a Pro-ject 2 Xperience turntable, although i will probably add a separate phono stage to it in due course
All this writing and no pics yet - you must be sick !
The first one is a small snippet of screaming video from t'internet through to the projector. because of the small resolutions from the streaming video, the picture produced is clear as a bell ! i have left my computer screen turned on and you can just about make out the scene from 'family guy' in the top left of the screen which is being extracted and projected by some magic stuff within the catylist drivers.
Here is my hi-fi set up so far, still need to sort the wires out behind and under my desk but ill save that for when ive run out of things to watch and listen to lol
( pro-ject 2 xperience turntable+Marantz 5001 CD player>QED silver spiral>Marantz 4001 amp> Nordost 2flat cables > Mordaunt Short MS20i w/ spiked platforms)
Heres my big desk i have waited so long for !
i absolutely love it ! just so much space, but due to my bad habits it doesn't take long before its covered in CD's and glasses and general junk. It also catches a fair amount of dust too but i have a new carpet so that could be one reason for it.
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