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botr2	173notes	composite	Diagonal view of room, showing new Sistrum SP6 rack housing audio tower - Video tower to the right; Adona rack
Front soundstage as of Nov 29, 2008 - Changes made: Revs on SP101 Sistrum stands (highly recommended for image stability, tautness, clarity) prototype Elrod Remote Sense cabling Spectron monoblocks (hid behind center channel and center channel amp)	SP Tech Revelations on Sistrum SP101 stand - highly recommended stand. The Revs sing with these, adding imaging stability, clarity and an overall weight and tautness to the sound.	Close up of prototype Bolder Cable octal adapter for MW Transporter - RCA silver label 6SN7 tube	Modwright Transporter with prototype Bolder Cable octal adapter - 5AR4 metal base rectifier pair of RCA silver label 6SN 7's
Nov 20, 2008 setup: showing Sistrum Sp101 speaker stands. Monoblock Spectrons behind center channel; center channel amp in view - Demoing Elrod remote sense cables....10 ft length, a bit messy right now	Side view of new Sistrum SP6 rack housing my audio tower	Shows surround setup with different 5.1 and 7.1 speaker sets - 5.1 one pair SP TEch Continuums (same as center channel and upper part of main Revelations) 7.1 2 pair Alon Centris surrounds	Another diagonal view of room, showing new Sistrum SP6 rack housing audio tower - trusty Philips Pronto 9400 remote at my side
shows Herbie Ultrasonic tube dampers on the tubes (sizes 30 and 70).	EML mesh plate 5U4G tube and Wayne octal adapters	EML mesh plate 5U4G tube and Wayne octal adapters, glow from EML is very bright	Custom Sound Anchor surround stand - accommodates variable height adjustment (8 inch riser not yet installed in back third of room) and Mundorf external crossover box underneath it.
Custom Sound Anchor center channel stand - accommodates variable height adjustment, tilting and allows Mundorf external crossover box underneath it.	Front soundstage of all-SP Tech Rev/Continuum 5.1 music system. All fronts have Ulitmate Mundorf external crossovers - This view is from the listening chair. Ultimately the front amps will be side-by-side, and the center Ultimate Mundorf crossover box (seen turned around here) will be centered below them . The Revelations MR ! can now be called MKIV as they were modified with the latest tweeter mods tonight. Beautiful powerful music was heard by all (and likely the neighbors!!). My heros, Bob and Jason (and buddy Rob) left at 3am after a long night of setup, mods, pizza, wings, beer and surround music!!! God Bless Them	Front of room with drapes open, showing Stewart Studiotek 110" screen - The all-SP Tech setup for 2 ch and 5.1 music still uses the front three SP Tech's for the 7.1 movie setup. The surrounds are then switched from the Continuum AD rears (music) to the Alon sides and rears (dipoles).	Rear view (lightened so the Continuums are easily visible) of room as of May 3 2008 - although the perspective here looks like the sofa would be in the way, it is not. The speakers are toed-in toward the sweetspot Ekornes listening chair in the front row. Ultimately the entire back of the room, starting right behind the listening chair (i.e sofa, table, surrounds) will be on an 8 inch riser, level with the foyer entrance. My heros, Bob and Jason (and buddy Rob) left at 3am after a long night of setup, mods, pizza, wings, beer and surround music!!! God Bless Them.
equipment on right side wall, prior to room repaint/renovate - Shows audio and video stacks. Shows patched area where HDMi cabling was run from ceiling mounted DLP pj to main equipment area. In next month the walls will be dark gray, the ceiling and sloped areas will be black, and the carpet will be a gray/black pattern. The area behind the main listening seats will be raised on an 8 inch riser, even with the foyer entrance (where I stood to take this shot).	Continuum AD as right suround, with Intermediate Mundorf external crossover - although the perspective here looks like the sofa would be in the way, it is not. The speaker is aimed toward the sweetspot listening chair in the front row. My heros, Bob and Jason (and buddy Rob) left at 3am after a long night of setup, mods, pizza, wings, beer and surround music!!! God Bless Them.	Continuum AD as left music surround speaker. Intermediate Mundof xover is hidden. - although the perspective here looks like the sofa would be in the way, it is not. The speaker is aimed toward the sweetspot listening chair in the front row. My heros, Bob and Jason (and buddy Rob) left at 3am after a long night of setup, mods, pizza, wings, beer and surround music!!! God Bless Them.	Visio drawing of room, with step
Front view as of April 28.008	Back of room, showing new Ekornes listening chair and RealTrap Diffusors, 4/28/08	raytheonfront	raytheonside
Front soundstage of music room 10/27/07 - Added Adona racks - front and right wall Added MiniTraps on ceiling-slope area	Close up of Dan's tube mods to the Transporter - Uses one 5U4 coke bottle and two 6CG 7's (in my case). very nice!!	Modwright Transporter......S/N 0003 - This arrived today, Oct 29. 2007, and sounds great already. Logitech's incredible Transporter with the ultra detailed AKM Dacs, combined with Dan Wright's warm and silky sounding analog stage. Doubles as a 24/96 Modwright DAC!!	Front of room (April 15 2007) - newest additions are the RFZ panels (black w/ wall-stands, just on edge of picture) and the McCormack DNA-500 amp Main speakers are RSA Sason Ltd Drape is diffusive and covers 110" Stewart Videomatte screen
rear of room May 5, 2007 - Newest changes: equipment rack now in back right corner Added bass traps: now straddling sloped ceiling and wall, and addtl two 2x2 traps on sloped ceiling You can't see the music surrounds (black and indistinguishable from corner traps) but you can see side and rear movie surrounds	right side May 5, 2007 - Newest addition is black wall-stand RFZ panel and ceiling mounted white RFZ, both from Real Traps Speaker is RSA Sason Ltd Large sub is music subwoofer (Paradigm Servo 15). LFE sub is small and in corner.	Proposed setup - My need for a dedicated listening chair, and for more cntered theater viewing (allowing me to bring speakers even further from side walls if necessary) I am looking at moving my main stereo listening space forward and building a raised portion of the back of the room, putting the sofa there on the second level (which is level with the entrance). it moves my main speakers closer to front wall, and not sure this will be optimal for stereo imaging/soundstage.	Feb 2007: front soundstage, with the biggest change being the RSA Sason speakers - This slightly older pic shows the equipment rack in the front right corner. Soundstage is incredible. This is the Feb 2007 setup. Speakers are about 7 feet out into the room.
Album art screen for my Nokia 770 skin (Squeezebox 3) - This is where I can pick an album based on album art. This is about 30% completed.	My Nokia 770 skin for Now Showing (Squeezebox 3) - This is the default Nokia 770 skin, when in the Now Showing screen. It shows my album art (Beatles EP Bonus Disc in this case)	flac size vs time comparison - level 4 or 5 is clearly best tradeoff	Oct 2006 layout with ATC SCm150 ASL pro active speakers as mains - I moved the seating area and the main speaker location back two feet, allwoing better soundstage and better overall response. I still have good side view capability for the 110" HD screen. The blue surrounds are part of the movie 7.1 signal path (along with the front soundstage). The yellow highlited speakers are the nearfield monitor locations for hirez music surrounds (currently the VMPS 626r's until I replace them).
Older VMPS view front of room shot, showing new diffuser drapes in partial closed view. RM/X's, RM30C are now sold	Room response curve using SMS-1. Shows EQ'd stereo response with 49hz crossover	Older pic with RM30C as center channel, but before new Servo 15 sub and added drapes	HD capture...looks less sharp cuz I wanted to lighten the room to show a little room detail
Finally found a great spot for soundstage, bass, imaging position for the RM/X's. Sub fills in nicely below 50hz	first reflection point setup (from RealTraps website; thanks Ethan)	squuezecenter 1	My Pronto TSU6000 Remote. Handles the functions of eleven separate remotes (DVD/SACD/redbook, DVD-Audio, stereo preamp, analog 5.1 preamp, Lexicon pre/pro, scaler, projector, component video switcher, lights, cable HD dvr, and vcr). Is worth its weight
screencap of my Pronto home screen, with all power on/off function, Xbox, TV/cable, DVD, LD, SVHS (never used) and audio functions. Light button turns on Scene 1 and sends me to lights area	Home screen of TV/cable area, with bitmaps of all the most often used channels (mostly HD), including locals. Soft keys handle some remote volume and DVR functions	this is the menu screen, and is typical for any of my DVD menus (999ES SACD/redbook machine, DVD-Audio, etc.)	FS: surround stands built by Bob Smith
Power Enhancer clipped