davetheoilguy
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| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter It’s the SVS PB16 ultras. It’s a big room and they move a lot of air and just add the required depth to the bottom end. Very noticeable without overpowering. Takes some of the burden off the monoblocks. Set crossover (coming out of the preamp) ... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter @tomcarr Thanks for the advice. As noted, the side walls are too far away to be of concern, but I do have a pretty pronounced standing wave. I’ve bought multiple 4 inch thick panels for the back wall and behind the speakers/subs.. Also a bit ... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter @kennyc I can tell if you are joking or just utterly failed to read the thread. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter @lou_setriodes 1. Am Israel Chi! Go do whatever is necessary, please! Ignore the media. 2. For clarity, I live in West Texas. This house was built by an extremely wealthy oil man back in the 1960s during the height of the Cold War. Very r... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter No test for radon, but it's got radiation detectors of all sorts. Nada. Radon is not particularly a problem here (oilfields of West Texas), anyway. Per Texas A&M map, our county shows up at the second lowest level recorded in basements. | |
| HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO? I don't know if I am done or not. I am certainly satisfied, at the moment. Front End: VPI Titan Turntable, Van den Hul Frog gold cartridge Lumin U-1 Streamer Esoteric K-03XD SACD/DAC Amplification: Phono preamp; Parasound JC3+ Preamp: Evo ... | |
| Subwoofers: Ported or sealed? Or just get a monster sealed sub like the SVS PB-16 that can get low while sealed. 1500 watts and have the best of both. Or preferably two. I follow the “there is no replacement for displacement” philosophy for subs. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter It's 2.5 feet of hard concrete and steel under ~15 feet of dirt under a swimming pool or deck. Pretty sure it's a giant Faraday cage, too. Cell phones go completely dead, something I very much enjoy. So, I think we're OK with radiation. ;-) ... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Mahler - ah, excellent point. I am trying to be retro here, to a degree. It may come to that. I do have a newish Arcam AVR that is now unused. And it does have room correction software/mic. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter We have a home theater already in the house proper. It’s very typical McMansion stuff put in by the owner of the home between us and the survivalist builder, straight out of the mid-2000s, albeit with a new QLED. I suspect they walked into Magno... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter The underlying walls and ceiling are concrete, but I put in a vapor barrier and 1 inch insulation, then 2x4 (2x10s in the ceiling to space for steel I beams) and then 5/8 drywall on top, The void is expandable foam insulation. Looks like firm ye... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Yeah, I’ve got the system there already, although I have a new turntable I need to assemble. And missing a shelf from my rack. I’ll post pictures after I get it looking reasonable. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Plus, it's not like loud music would bother anyone. In seriousness, it's a just a very giant empty room. Not dark or damp or whatever. Excepting the fact you walk down a flight of stairs and through a mud room (er, "decontamination room" made t... | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter Yes, it actually has a lot of dedicated power outlets, already. With a lightning arrestor, whole facility surge protector (not the same as a lightning arrestor), and filter. It was originally designed to protect against EMP. I've replaced the e... | |
| ifi LAN iSilencer This product is what is known as a "LAN galvanic isolator". I recognize it because my wife is a heart surgeon who does ablations (for tachycardia and things like that) when peoples' heart beat is off. They need all the stray electric signals iso... |