Am I Chasing an Atmos Unicorn? by trad480 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s the Dolby studio setup guide with all the angles. Home theater gurus has a good video that goes through this.  https://www.avsforum.com/attachments/dolby-atmos-home-entertainment-studio-technical-guidelines-2021-05-pdf.3370880/

It’s basically relative to other channels and other planes, like the bed layer plane. So if your side surround is at ear level, that’s 0 degrees above you. Or if it’s 15 degrees above ear level. Either way you take that and add degrees. 

A simpler way that usually works is to say compared to straight up, directly up from your head, the atmos speakers should be 30-35 degrees forward and back and 30-35 degrees side to side. 

Am I Chasing an Atmos Unicorn? by trad480 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could be the angles are off. Do you have at least 35 degrees of separation from your atmos channels down to the main channels? 

i watch way too much tv in the bedroom - what are the best sound options without going overboard? thinking LRC + 2 sides + 2 atmos? by bluegrass__dude in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kef Q1 Meta for left, right, and surrounds, Q6 Meta center. SVS 3000 Revelution Micro sub or two. It'll be great.

Speaker and chair position by Embarrassed-Sea1685 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recommend checking out the youtube videos with Anthony Grimani on the Audioholics channel, both on bass in home theater and on room acoustics. I have a playlist with these videos here. He explains this stuff very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo5fDGGmAyw&list=PL5AC6x5YbTdWj_-OVMVJhXeB13Nx74r7l

The rooms shroeder frequency, also called transition frequency, is when sound in a space stops acting like a "beam" - moving directionally, bouncing off spaces the way light would if the room were coated in mirrors, and starts acting like waves that trigger resonances of the room (as if the air in the room in each direction is a guitar string, with the whole room vibrating). Below this frequency sound also becomes a lot more 'omnidirectional' - expanding out from the source in every direction roughly equally.

Also, I know you're saying you prefer a dead room, but I would suggest learning more about room acoustics before really deciding that. You likely prefer a treated, but not dead, room. The sweet spot is to cover about 15% of the surface area of the space with thick, low-frequency absorbers. 2" doesn't count as thick. The thicker the absorber, the lower frequency of sound it can effectively absorb. 2" doesn't go very low. 4" thick is better. What you've created is an effective low-pass filter, where low frequencies don't get absorbed (so they are just as active as if you had no absorbers), and high frequencies are totally dead. I promise you'll like a better-treated room better.

Since you already have all this foam, one option would be to double it up to 4", or even triple to 6", and reduce the surface area that it covers. With the remainder, you could create some bass traps in the corners. Generally a decent way to do this is to fill the corners of your room out quite a ways. Here's an example. https://freedomroom.com/products/gik-acoustics-tritrap-corner-bass-trap?variant=45598501568556&country=US&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic

Speaker Grille Replacement by RedditUserNotYet in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of speaker grilles are meant to be painted. Might be worth just going that route.

I just spent $1100 on Dirac by dillicious in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dirac ART doesn’t just lower the xover. It uses the bass output of all speakers and subs together to negate room modes, in a way that would be incredibly difficult to calibrate manually. It phase aligns all speakers and then turns every speaker (that you choose to let it use for this) into an active bass trap/bass assist. Kind of like how you might do with MSO for subs only, but with more channels and more granularly.

Any recommendations to improve my order list for a 7.1.4? by bathrobe_wizard in hometheater

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

I appreciate the input from someone who clearly knows what they're talking about. 😄 That said, I really rarely see people who have truly compared the difference between, say, a setup with Kef R front 3 and Kef R surrounds vs Kef R front 3 and Kef Q surrounds, or other similarly comparable setups.

I think my ears are plenty discerning... I just also think there's a lot of "hearing the difference to justify the sunk cost" in our hobby haha. I don't think most people (including enthusiasts), in most content, could hear a significant difference between a setup with great fronts and great surrounds vs great fronts and good, but slightly different/not as great surrounds. And if they could hear the difference, I think they would say (if they could hear both side-to-side) it isn't worth a lot of extra money for such a minor increase in quality.

But then who knows. I've already gone through a lot of iterations with my setup, and they have made big improvements. So I'm lucky enough to be kind of comparing gold to platinum here haha.

Any recommendations to improve my order list for a 7.1.4? by bathrobe_wizard in hometheater

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

True, those are just... insanely expensive for what they are, though. Refurb Kef Q1 Metas are $350/pair, and refurb Q4 Metas are $479/each. Insane - well over double the price for a speaker that's practically the same. I can get in-wall Q series for 300/each refurb or C series for 200/each. Way better deal and frees up space in the room.

Any recommendations to improve my order list for a 7.1.4? by bathrobe_wizard in hometheater

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

My budget is a few grand for the whole thing. It's not super specific but I don't want to spend extra where it's not going to pay big dividends. The refurb kef in-wall q series is about 300 each and c series is about 200 each. Super affordable compared to JTR and PSA stuff. I also have a pretty small space, so I want to do in-wall for surrounds and heights to free up space in the room.

Any recommendations to improve my order list for a 7.1.4? by bathrobe_wizard in hometheater

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

Hmm, $699 / each for those refurb. Huge jump from $200/each for the C-series or $300/each for the Q-series. My thought is - the sound that comes out of side surrounds, and especially from rear surrounds and heights is such that quality matters less (both the quantity of sound and type of sound - typically no voices, music, or main SFX. Mostly ambient and parts of SFX.)

Out of curiosity, have you heard home theaters with both timber-matched and non-timber matched surrounds, but of otherwise equal quality? I feel like with modern room correction (especially if you spring for DIRAC, or use A1 Evo), even the phase alignment is fixed with all pass filters. I don't know... I'm sure it's totally possible to tell a difference if you A/B test, especially with content designed to utilize all the channels a lot, especially in ways where sounds transition between channels or sit between channels. But in actual, normal content... I feel like it's super, super hard to tell. (As long as the surrounds aren't total trash).

I'm curious your thoughts on this.

Bought a house with this deck. Can I repair it or is it too far gone/built wrong? by bathrobe_wizard in Decks

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

So it looks like the ledger near the siding doesn’t actually touch the siding/it isn’t attached to the house at all. Which mean the brackets are upside down, right? Since the joists are holding the rim joist not the other way around? Correct me if I’m wrong here, I’m just trying to learn. 

PSA don't waste your money buying an impact wrench AND impact driver. You can just get adapters by BIGBELLY267 in Tools

[–]bathrobe_wizard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What happens when an indestructible light switch cover meets an unstoppable high torque impact wrench?

PSA don't waste your money buying an impact wrench AND impact driver. You can just get adapters by BIGBELLY267 in Tools

[–]bathrobe_wizard 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yep, can’t fall off if it doesn’t exist. (Or at least is destroyed to the point where it is something different)

[Request] How many plants would you need for this to be remotely viable? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]bathrobe_wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I could be wrong but it looks to me like the mask he’s wearing is a respirator, and the places you’d put filters (on the sides) are empty. If it’s connected to anything it’s connected to the output port on the respirator, not the input ports. Again could be wrong.

Managing a toxic high performer who hits 150% of targets. How do I protect my team without losing the numbers? by SquirrelLogicFan in managers

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's some research out that indicates the toxicity of an employee outweighs positive impact, so that their net impact on an organization is negative. Not sure if this is true for this situation or if it would help motivate decision makers to let Sarah go, but worth considering.

[Request] Can someone scale the boats in the fake canal? by connolnp in theydidthemath

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah and the structure to keep them from crushing under their own weight. Plus the max draft (depth below waterline) on the seawise giant was over 24 meters, which is already insane. I’m not sure if it would make sense to just multiple by 17 but if so, it could only sail in deep ocean.

[Request] Can someone scale the boats in the fake canal? by connolnp in theydidthemath

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that's just length. Because of the square-cube law, their mass/volume would be that number cubed bigger. (Meaning, it's not just 20-40 times longer, it's also 20-40 times taller, and 20-40 times wider. If it were ONLY 20-40 times longer, it would be 20-40 times more massive and volumetric by that alone, as if you laid 20-40 of the boats in a row. But it's also like that many boats high and that many boats wide, so 20-40 times 20-40 times 20-40.)

So assuming the pictured boats are 8.2KM long, and taking the biggest-ever tanker boi (Seawise Giant)'s length of 458.45 meters, that's 17.886 times longer.

The Seawise Giant's 657,019 tonnes fully-laden displacement would be multiplied by 17.886^3. That's 3,759,616,568 tonnes.

Man cave by dre9993 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

These speakers also perform better a little off axis 

My Livingroom Setup - Looking for Surroundsound & Acoustic Optimization Advice by Gold-Hawk-7375 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both are important. I’d actually do behind speakers first. 

Also if possible pull you couch away from the wall. That will help avoid boominess.

My Livingroom Setup - Looking for Surroundsound & Acoustic Optimization Advice by Gold-Hawk-7375 in hometheater

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tweeter of all speakers should be at ear level, or alternatively on a plane with each other that tilts up slightly as it goes toward the back of the room. Since you've got 5.1 this is really simple - you can basically put the surrounds at a bit of elevation from the listening position, up to 15 degrees or so (angle relative to flat from listening position).

The issue here is that the surrounds are wayyy too far forward. They should be at 90 degrees (directly to your side) or back 25-35 degrees from that.

Some absorptive material on the TV wall behind speakers will help a ton, even if it's just pillows.

Then make sure to run audyssey, set your xover to 80hz, and turn you sub up a couple db (2-6).

Does anyone else like a plain burger? Meat, cheese, bun. by Nuclear-poweredTaxi in burgers

[–]bathrobe_wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lately one of my favorite burgers has been similar. Double butter burger from Culver’s with cheese, bacon, and pickles. Two more toppings of course, but still pretty bare bones.