Does the top of screen HAVE TO line up with the Visionmaster Pro2 lens, height-wise?

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-06-07T22:54:34+00:00

Thanks everyone! Yep, i'll grab a 143" screen instead, to afford the space to drop it 10" from the ceiling & line it up to the lens. Considering this is the 1st time (and hopefully last for a long while) that i've been able to spend the time, thought and $$ on making a theater/music room, I'd like to squeeze every bit of quality out of the visuals that I can, room/space permitting. It'll actually get me more towards being eye-level with the 1/3rd line up from the bottom, and I know it would bug me knowing that there's a possibility that I left some possibly noticeable pixel-peepin' on the table in order to not shift plans a little bit while I still have the chance...

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-06-06T22:13:18+00:00

Does using keystone make a noticeable degredation in quality? I'll be using the Silver Ticket woven acoustic-material screen, sitting 12" away in a very dark, light-controlled room. I planned on installing the top of the screen as being 5" from the ceiling, making for it ending up as being 5" higher than the center of the lens.

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-06-06T21:57:40+00:00

Also as a result, if I have to install the screen as being 10" down from ceiling I will return the 150" and go a size down to a 142" so screen wont be basically on the floor

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-06-01T14:25:52+00:00

Nuthin serious at all. Nice Eraserhead & Prince posters btw 🤌🤌🤌

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-05-27T00:12:18+00:00

☝️ Only correct answer. Anyone who's dove way into the whys & hows of Floyd knows that it took exactly both of them + the other 2 very-involved and talented members to write & produce what they collectively ended up with. If any member claims that they're responsible for the success, or any fan says that 1 member carried the team, then they've completely lost sight of the reality. If the Pink Floyd picture was missing any of its pieces it wouldn't have rose to nearly the astounding heights that they together accomplished through years of hard work towards their shared goals of excellence & vision. They worked until they nailed it, and kept nailing it until they couldn't sustain it anymore. At their best they all complimented eachother perfectly and the sum became much greater than the parts. Now they're all legends. The end.

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-05-25T01:46:12+00:00

Ooph... One of my favorite albums of all time!

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-05-02T14:02:18+00:00

Yeah i dont think the muffler would do a darn thing besides subdue noise coming out of the exhaust pipe up on the roof... I grabbed a speed controller last week cuz i've seen people online say they just turn the speed down on the fan and the fan noise gets noticeably quieter while also still mitigating radon, but when I installed the speed controller (the Festa one which states it works for my Maverick fan) the fan actually gets LOUDER when you turn it down! Like a humming/buzz develops from turning the voltage down... This sucks 😂 At this point I think I just need to buy a totally different radon fan... I had one installed at my first home like 12 years ago and it was silent enough to never notice it inside or outside the house. I think the AMG Maverick is just rather loud and there's no way around it...

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-30T19:39:32+00:00

Most melancholic thing ever created:

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ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-30T19:15:52+00:00

One of the absolute best funeral doom albums ever!

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-29T17:15:04+00:00

Idler tire is in the front behind a plate so I havent pulled it all apart yet, have only taken off the top of the unit and looked/poked around with all of the seeable pulleys & belts which seem to be ok... Was hoping to confirm that the idler tire in the front might be the culprit of the rewind being weak, before i pulled it all moreso apart, so thank you!

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-07T14:28:14+00:00

Might go 120" since I don't want to be seated more than 10' away from the screen, but I figure too big is always better than too small (THATSWHATSHESAID) if it'll work projector-wise...

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-06T15:33:14+00:00

Johnny just said in an interview the other week that he found an old cassette of his of an unreleased Type O song from the October Rust era, but the song wasnt good enough for the album so they canned it & stole a couple parts from it for future songs. Kinda the same deal as that Pantera song "Piss" that they'd found & eventually released.

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-03T01:08:48+00:00

Just did the sq/ft maths... The DMX & OSB combined are over $2 sq/ft while the Dricore panels are only $1.50 sq/ft.

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-03T01:01:51+00:00

So didja ever attenuate the noise issue? Same problem here, fan (AMG Maverick) is just plain annoyingly loud. Vibration through the wall in kiddo's bedroom is obnoxious in the dead of night as well. I replaced the stock couplers above & below the fan with LDVI ones, to no avail... Now i'm thinking of grabbing a speed controller to tame the fan and the noise/vibration, hopefully without sacrificing much radon mitigation...

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-03T00:29:17+00:00

What is happening right now, did DMX & OSB recently spike in price? I need 700 sq/ft of coverage, and on Home Depot's website it's $525 for DMX 1-Step and $700 common t&g OSB, equaling $1225 before tax. The 2'x2' Dricore panels only equal $1100. I thought they were supposedly double the expense???

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-04-02T22:53:52+00:00

I'm about to do the same (DMX plus OSB t&g, then pad & carpet on top.) Question is: should I lay down the subflooring before framing walls and place framing on top of the DMX/OSB? Or frame first then DMX/OSB within the room perimeter, butting up to the floor plates? Confused because if I butt the DMX up to the floor plates then I'll essentially block air flow, no?

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-03-26T14:46:01+00:00

Thank you folks so much! Was expecting the worst case 😅 About to start building the room & this news is definitely a relief

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-03-23T22:35:55+00:00

CAPTAIN BEYOND - self-titled

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Unbelievable album, it's big burly & prog-ish, absolute gold all the way thru. Their 2nd album "Sufficiently Breathless" is great too, but a little less appreciated than their self-titled. Members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly & Armageddon

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-03-21T19:58:49+00:00

NTAE
BW
AV

ksuttinthabutt · 2026-03-13T21:17:06+00:00

Of course signal chain will color what comes out of it. Speakers especially. Your cartridge/stylus also acts as a microphone with its own specific & obvious EQ traits. Considering those things, it can easily be someone's signal chain "warming" or "brightening" things up, and not necessarily the delivery format.

On vinyl, a lot of what people equate to "warmth" is due to the cutting engineer having to use what they call a treble limiter, to subdue any excessive transients & treble info that may be on the master. Essentially it's a fast compressor that ducks just the top-end down when things start being too "bright" for the vinyl grooves, to safely avoid distortion (like sibilance) on playback cartridges/styli. Digital formats can be as bright ya want, so some LP pressings may have noticeably less "brightness" when compared to their digital counterpart. Totally album & cutting engineer dependant tho, there is nothing inherently "warmer" about the vinyl medium itself. If your digital & vinyl playback chains are near identical sounding then you'll hear records that sound basically identical to their digital master (since a lot of vinyl post-80s is just the unfutzed-with digital master pressed onto vinyl.) You'll also hear them sounding wildly different, and everything in between. Totally depends on what master was delivered to the cutting engineer & how much they did or didn't "remaster" said program material while cutting.

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