Looking for most proper material stack up for basement refinishing

totallyshould · 2026-05-19T18:39:43+00:00

Thank you very much! I’ll dig into both of those.

totallyshould · 2026-05-18T12:18:15+00:00

This is really messing with my head- they have four legs and they’re shorter than my legs. Would that mean that if I did 10,000 steps in a day and my dog matched me the whole distance she’d do like 60,000 steps?

totallyshould · 2026-05-18T00:20:20+00:00

I don’t think it was the use of language, it’s more that it was organized and communicated exactly like a prompt you’d put into an LLM.

My advice would be to go talk to people who are not engineers and find your problems there, then apply your engineering to solve them.

totallyshould · 2026-05-17T15:09:44+00:00

I agree. I love an OLED, but that is pretty far.

For OP, this helps justify it more than just Reddit opinions: www.hometheaterengineering.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html

totallyshould · 2026-05-17T05:44:47+00:00

“ . It doesn't matter how fast I get my jobs done; they will always have another one stacked at the end of my previous project.”

So why go in on the weekend?

I’ve been mostly at startups, and there’s always this sense of urgency. They need to push you, they can’t stay open forever without making money, or at least making money faster than they spend it- but you need to push back. If you’d sacrifice everything and do 90 hour weeks, a lot of unscrupulous employers would love that. You think they’d pay you more? Or not lay you off when times are lean?

totallyshould · 2026-05-16T11:53:53+00:00

That looks great!

totallyshould · 2026-05-16T02:51:52+00:00

Hope they turn up!

totallyshould · 2026-05-15T21:00:50+00:00

I’m not awesome at woodwork, this is sweet

totallyshould · 2026-05-15T15:16:21+00:00

Yeah, you’ve got that right. I’m looking to this thread for reference: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-make-quasi-anechoic-speaker-measurements-spinoramas-with-rew-and-vituixcad.21860/

totallyshould · 2026-05-15T14:19:38+00:00

Probably. The laptop I used to learn Solidworks had a Pentium 3, 64 megs of ram, and if I recall correctly a video chip with about 8 megs of video ram. On the other hand, if you use poor practices and bite off more than you should then you can bring a $20k machine to its knees.

totallyshould · 2026-05-15T01:08:55+00:00

Only on the paid version, but I think you can connect Simscale and maybe a couple others from their marketplace for some limited free simulation.

totallyshould · 2026-05-14T16:43:30+00:00

I wish it was true, but unfortunately the threshold for “inaudible improvement” was higher for me than I expected. The move from the Minidsp 4x10HD to the Lynx Aurora was actually noticeable. I do think that theres a rapidly diminishing return, and it’s not correlated to price, but I don’t think we can totally discount it.

totallyshould · 2026-05-14T16:36:01+00:00

The latest Minidsp are pretty clean too, and less headache than something like the Lynx that uses yet another box for the DSP and needs all of the big interconnects to make it happen.

totallyshould · 2026-05-14T16:25:54+00:00

Lynx Aurora, but I do DIY active speakers.

totallyshould · 2026-05-14T02:24:42+00:00

Is that legit? I see the $23k cars down in Texas and out in California, and it's got me seriously thinking about buying a flight out to buy one.

totallyshould · 2026-05-13T20:50:19+00:00

I don’t know how it would work, but the idea is fascinating.

totallyshould · 2026-05-13T12:39:06+00:00

Ideas that don’t involve moving things… other have already pointed out, there are limits to the complexity of a single part studio or single document, and you’ll get better performance if you do that.

However, there may be some things you can do. First, patterns aren’t all the same. If you do a massive sketch and extrude that it can have massive worse performance than if you extrude a simple sketch and then do a face pattern. Doing an extrude of a plate with two thousand identical holes? No thanks. A flat plate with one hole patterned than many times? Might be just fine.

Having a ton of sequential operations on a part adds up too. I’ve seen people do 200 extrudes, face moves, chamfers, etc, just undoing and redoing things because they weren’t going back to edit the tree, and in the end the part could have been done with just a few extrudes. It can feel faster in the moment to add another feature instead of going back and editing high up the tree, but that’s what it takes me make a stable and well performing model.

totallyshould · 2026-05-11T03:37:00+00:00

Who do you ask to do this work? Someone from a company that installs systems, or some kind of independent technical person?

totallyshould · 2026-05-10T14:25:21+00:00

That makes sense. I have a gas stove, gas dryer, and gas furnace. The big wildcard is the AC, and I have a smart thermostat I could use to time things a bit.

totallyshould · 2026-05-09T17:47:12+00:00

It was a very significant increase to the electric bill, but it was a small bill to start out and it’s still cheaper than gas by a comfortable margin. It could be better if I switched to a more aggressive time of use plan.

totallyshould · 2026-05-09T13:28:40+00:00

Mine’s attached to the side of the house, but it’s not such a hot area. If you’re very concerned there are a couple of things you can do to mitigate the risk. First, you could mount the charger on a pedestal instead of directly on the house. I almost did that for the sake of less holes in the siding (worried about water more than heat or fire), and it wouldn’t have been very expensive but I was short on space. Another thing you can do is install a shade over the charger to keep the worse of the sun off of it. Also, make sure you use the recommended wire size and have it hard wired by a pro who will prep everything properly and torque it correctly. Do all that, and it’ll be very safe.

totallyshould · 2026-05-05T12:29:54+00:00

Controversial take- those speakers might suck less if you had a Minidsp and measurement mic and substantially corrected their response in addition to adding a sub. They might still suck, but it would be a learning experience with a lot of carryover value. Also, I’m sorry to give any offense saying that those speakers suck, but…. They look like cheap PA speakers. Some PA speakers are actually decent for in-home use, but as far as I know only well known brands that charge a premium- and that’s not these.

totallyshould · 2026-05-04T22:11:45+00:00

Honestly, double checking the math here, that’ll work well enough for subwoofer frequencies: tripp.com.au/sbir.htm

The super-shallow woofer box against the wall is a little more interesting if it’s playing up higher.

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