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Welcome | Member IntroductionHello from Pacific Northwest Discuss Hello from Pacific Northwest in the General Shack Area forum; Hello from Pacific Northwest GREAT forum. Been dabbling in A/V for lots o' years (yeah, I'm old), but finally getting serious. Building new home ... |
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| Hello from Pacific Northwest GREAT forum. Been dabbling in A/V for lots o' years (yeah, I'm old), but finally getting serious. Building new home with dedicated theater, so I'll no doubt be asking a few questions. I'll appreciate any/all advice. Joe | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Hello Joe and welcome to the Shack! Thanks for the Platinum membership... ![]() We love questions and hopefully we'll have good answers. We have some brilliant folks here, so you should find what you need. I'm sure you'll be contributing too. | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Welcome to the Shack. If the "average joe" gets to build a dedicated theater room, sign me up to be average! ![]() We are the Shack. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. You will be mapped. Resistance is futile. | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Quote:
. She's agreed to let me have the bottom floor (game room and theater), if she can have what she wants on the main floor. No argument from me (I'm average, not crazy). | |||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Hey, Joe! Sounds like my wife! When we searched for our current home, our "deal" was that I could have the basement, while she had the upstairs (frankly, I could've care less if upstairs was a chicken coop). She is also amazingly understanding of my newfound toys: SVS subs. Just picture me watching a movie downstairs, shaking the entire house, and her reading in the living room, reaching to keep her cup o' tea from vibrating off the table (without even looking up from her book)... ![]() Peace... Vader Louvre attendant: Sacre bleu! ze frame on ze Mona Lisa broke and ze only one left iz too small. Andre, bring me ze scissors! One sub to rumble them all. One sub to shake them. One sub to humble them all. And in the darkness break them.... ![]() The Overlook Theater - Not liable for injuries sustained while laughing. | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Vader, Sounds very similar, although I think "tolerant" is closer to my wife's feelings about subwoofers rather than "understanding" . She's asked about soundproofing between the floors, and that's fine with me - every dollar I spend on acoustics can be easily explained as "soundproofing" . | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Welcome to the Shack Joe, I hope you really like it here and hope and forsee you becoming one of our most upstanding users. EDIT: Easiest way of soundproofing a floor is to rip up the carpet and padding then remove the boards and line alot of plastic down, then fill it all with sandand staple-gun plastic over it, relay the boards and etc. ~Bob | ||||
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| Re: Hello from Pacific Northwest Quote:
Don't meant to hijack this thread, but I have some questions. What kind of plastic do you recommend? Any links to a particular product? Would this be better than MLV? What kind of STC numbers would you expect? Can you cite any links to this kind of activity? It sounds like you're suggesting to remove the carpet, pad and subfloor. I wouldn't consider that "easy", and I've done quite a bit of home improvement type stuff... I posted here a while ago, about soundproofing my basement. Any suggestions? Edit: This post somehow magically appeared over at the link mentioned above. Maybe a mod moved it over there and didn't say anything, maybe I screwed up, but I will be happy to continue this discussion over there, as it is a more appropriate forum for a soundproofing discussion. Thanks! -- Otto | |||||
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