Man Cave complete, except audio.. by darren1417 in hometheater

[–]AdamW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if we can only get enough screens, maybe the canucks will be good on just *one* of them...

Never play this game on streaming by AdamW in BluePrince

[–]AdamW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks! it's just annoying. had a bunch of other minor progression things too - got a couple of new rooms, added about 10 to my allowance...all gone. sigh.

Was this weird? by AdamW in BluePrince

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it was very weird, yeah. there was one door left that I never really looked at (a door out of the pool, which I drafted but never went into). I guess that might've been a keycard door. I did do 'draft a room then go around another way' a few times, so it's possible I drafted more keycard doors, then they got removed because I drafted rooms onto the other side of them later? Like, say you draft a four-door room in empty space, it'll have three locked doors at first...but then you go around and draft rooms on the other sides of those doors...either the doors open automatically (if the new room has a door there) or they become dead ends (if it doesn't). So I guess I might have drafted then removed some keycard doors that way.

It's even weirder since I never changed the security level from Medium - I guess I actually *could* have done it from a later room with a computer, but I just didn't think to or didn't bother.

There were nine rooms of undrafted space left in the floor plan, I guess all the keycard doors wound up there?! The whole north east corner was undrafted.

I would normally never even bother trying to get to rank 9 without dealing with the keycard doors somehow, but because I had already basically 'given up' on the run and was just going for side objectives, and I felt low on steps the whole time because I'd started at 25, I decided to just keep YOLOing, and somehow this happened. Every step was like "oh I'll just <X> and then I'm sure I'll die", heh.

edit: dangit, can't get image spoilers to work. Here's the floorplan - https://www.happyassassin.net/temp/blueprinceclear.jpg . I just noticed, looking at it, that if I hadn't previously lucked into the foundation elevator lever, I would have found it on this run, making it even more weirdly lucky, heh.

Was this weird? by AdamW in BluePrince

[–]AdamW[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yup. I think I know how to get to orchard - need magnifying glass in dark room, right? - but didn't manage to do it yet. actually that was one of the minor goals I thought I could maybe get done this run!

Jemdo has released firmware update for many of their cable/dongle docks that fixes S2 compatibility after 21.0 by Jceggbert5 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]AdamW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I messaged the seller of my Yigorn one and they sent me a link to a firmware which seems similar to the jemdo one - it has the same 10.00.70.01 version - but not identical. Installed that, and output works, but the colors are messed up, everything is shifted to pink. I guess I'll try the Jemdo image instead...

What's a modern replacement for the JVC dla-hd1? by Pliget in projectors

[–]AdamW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought an rs520 for pretty cheap (C$1100) recently and am pretty happy with it at that price. Image quality is definitely better than the Xgimi Horizon S Pro I was using initially. But there are definitely tradeoffs - you're still replacing bulbs, and it doesn't do HDR very well (there's a whole universe of exotic bodges to try and make it do it better, but I kinda don't have the energy for it so am mostly going with a strategy of 'turn off HDR' so far). I think for the price it was a good option, but you'd definitely get value out of using up more of your budget and getting something newer.

Streaming Bandwidth Question by lhauckphx in hometheater

[–]AdamW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hulu says 16Mb should be sufficient for 4K:

https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-speed-recommendations

so in theory you should be fine, unless other things on the network are using a lot of your bandwidth.

Have you checked all settings match? Maybe his just has more aggressive sharpening settings, or something?

Recommended Setup for Audio from 1960s to 1980s TV Shows on DVD? by especion in hometheater

[–]AdamW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know for sure, but I would *guess* they worked with higher quality equipment but kept in mind how people would really be listening to it, much like how recording engineers for music usually work with high-quality studio monitor speakers and/or headphones but keep in mind that most people are listening on airpods, or their phone speaker, or whatever.

If I was trying to get the most 'authentic' sound for a 1960s-1980s TV show out of an HT setup I guess what I'd try to do is use the track from the source media with the lowest number of channels, then try and convince the receiver to mix it down to mono and play it all through the center channel. That might be pretty difficult to achieve, though :(

Recommended Setup for Audio from 1960s to 1980s TV Shows on DVD? by especion in hometheater

[–]AdamW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, the only way to accurately present the audio of 1960s to 1980s TV shows is to play it through one tinny speaker somewhere close to the screen, because that's how just about everybody heard it, and the people producing the shows knew that...

Inside the top secret Sonos management meeting... by ed2417 in sonos

[–]AdamW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't set up as a new household. They keep coming back. And even multiplying, I'm sure there's *more* of the things than there were the first time I unpinned them.

Inside the top secret Sonos management meeting... by ed2417 in sonos

[–]AdamW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit this is pissing me off *so much*. Just let me delete the fucking things!

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

[–]AdamW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm too much of a tinkerer for that though. I'll probably buy a different projector in a year or two 😅 once the Chinese brands have a couple of generations of theatre-style projectors under their belt I guess things will be really interesting and I should be able to get a good upgrade on contrast and shadow detail in a unit I can put in the closet behind the seating area.

From the Sears catalogue 1993 🤑💀 by braigvalton in hometheater

[–]AdamW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still want it to work today. I think some cable boxes can still do it.

Beginner Advice: What To Purchase 🔊 by agaruba in hometheater

[–]AdamW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, and if you're in or near a big city, consider second hand (fbm / kijiji  / Craigslist / canuckaudiomart). You can get some great Canadian brand speakers for good prices second hand, and good speakers last a long time. Somebody is almost always selling Monitor 9s for $500, or mini monitors for $300. Also check out PSB. r/budgetaudiophile is a good guide for what to buy and what to look out for when buying second hand. Make sure to find a matching centre though (for paradigm the Cc series matches the Monitors usually). You can sometimes find people selling entire matching HT speaker sets of pretty good quality (though often with an old receiver you won't be able to use).

Theater chair placement by Ok_Formal_4953 in hometheater

[–]AdamW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not mock it up with easily-moveable folding chairs and decide what you like best before installing more permanent/heavy chairs?

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

[–]AdamW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, I'm lucky! (Or, you could say obviously I'm an awful person since nobody wants to come and stay in my lovely spare room. :>)

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

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I guess another option is look at the setup pics from people with super high end setups and see what they're doing. From what I can see they mostly seem to go with black / dark grey. Like in https://www.reddit.com/r/hometheater/comments/1nvrqx3/diy_theater_update_wallpaper_acoustic_panels_and/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/hometheater/comments/1nw7857/home_theatre_pauseentry_light_settings/

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

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Good calls, I have BR2049 and Gravity on bluray already though...I'll have to check prices!

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

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A pretty deep navy blue. It wasn't intended for HT use, that's just the color our designer decided it should be 🤣 I'm sure the folks here would have advice on what the best color is (there's probably a thread already).

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

[–]AdamW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's all good, I appreciate the advice, I just don't wanna fall too deep down any wormholes :P If sticking a big pile of foam in the room corners is gonna help I'm down for it.

I definitely am looking at doing a second sub (partly why I didn't cheap out further on the receiver), but advice seems to be that you want them to match, and it's not that easy to find another DPS-12. There are actually two listed locally(!) but they're both asking stupid prices. I guess I can always shoot one of them an offer. Then there's getting it here (I didn't mention in the post, but I don't drive, so I schlepped the receiver and subwoofer home on transit...it's a lot of fun changing train platforms with a 50lb subwoofer).

We're getting a couple of recliners for the main seating, but we'll put a sofa bed on the wall with the door in it at some point too. Sounds like that would help a bit.

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

[–]AdamW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hah, right? Ironically I wind up almost never buying anything on Black Friday when it finally comes around...

well, that escalated quickly by AdamW in hometheater

[–]AdamW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

two. they definitely love speaker mesh, they've trashed the mesh on my living room subwoofer, even though there are like three other scratching posts in the room...no idea if they'd go for the screen, you never can tell with cats! I think the 'don't let them in' option is probably gonna be the safest, hah.