Oh come on, I had to break from the usual "hi" and "hello" titles
I'm Dave and I am a big-time computer nerd who has gotten bored of computers lately. I recently switched to Macs and discovered that my computers don't have any more problems to fix, so I decided to jump into DIY Hi-Fi/Home Theater stuff. My first two projects were the Dayton BR-1s stereo speaker kit from Parts Express (2005) and the Dayton 10" Titanic MKIII subwoofer (2006). I'm currently building a pair of Goldenboys from a
Parts Express design for use with my outdoor home theater (snagged a 12' Gremmy inflatable projector screen from Wal-mart recently). These will be my first 100% from-scratch audio project so I'm pretty excited! I have to admit that I'm not much of an audiophile, however. My Logitech speakers sound about as good to me as my Dayton BR-1s. AVS Forum can be a little overwhelming in that regard, so I'm excited to be a part of these forums now! I can tell the difference between "good" and "poor" quality but that's about it. I've demoed $18,500 speakers locally and I just can't tell much of a difference over my $150 Daytons other than they fill up the room better because they're 5 times as large. I get my fun in building, testing, and tweaking things and trying new designs and setups.
My current setup consists of a 27" Panasonic Tau CRT television and a Mitsubishi HD1000u projector, both of which I love immensely. I'm much pickier about video quality than audio quality; I don't like most plasmas or LCDs so I've stuck it out with CRTs in the past. I'm a really big fan of projectors and I consider my HD1000u perfect...no screen door effect, no ghosting, no rainbows, no weird problems, plays SD content well and HD looks great. For indoors I currently use a white wall for my projector screen, which looks great, but I recently decided to get a little fancy and ordered a 100" electric widescreen from
Tiger Direct. I'm looking forward to having a bit of a more "finished" feel with it for my home theater! For audio I'm using an inexpensive Sherwood RD-6105 5.1 receiver (which is next on the upgrade list), a pair of Dayton BR-1s speakers from kits, a Fluance AV-SC center, a pair of Fluance AV-BP2 bipole satellites, and a Dayton 10" Titanic MKIII subwoofer. Sure beats paying $10 a ticket at the local movie theater!
My current project is a pair of outdoor stereo speakers (the Goldenboys) and I have a few more fun ones in the que for the next year or so, including an outdoor horn sub, an 18" sonotube, and a new pair of tower speakers. I'm excited to delve into DIY stuff and learn about building enclosures, designing crossovers, etc. I'm also a big technology nut and I'm constantly tweaking my network and computer-based video playback systems. I just started a blog to chronicle my projects, check it out sometime here:
http://www.orionmods.com/blog/
Anyway, looking forward to meeting you guys!