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  1. Home Audio Speakers
    When I am looking to have music playing throughout the house (small house) and also wanting to make sure that I can stay at a fairly low price (Thinking POLK MC80's) should I consider buying some 'caps' for the speakers to prevent any conditioned air from leaking out through the speaker? Or are...
  2. Home Theater Design and Construction
    Hello all! (you can skip this) For some background, I recently purchased a home (Jan) and I didn't like the popcorn ceiling in the living room. I decided to tear down the ceiling, while the ceiling was gone I thought I should install recessed lights so I did. Then I thought, hmmm since i live...
  3. Home Theater Design and Construction
    Salutations one and all, I was reading this article on the construction of backer boxes: http://www.soundproofingcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CIM-backer-box-installation-web.pdf One item that is not covered is whether the recessed light is somehow attached to the backer box or just...
  4. General Screen Discussion
    Hey Guys, I'm looking for a reasonably priced recessed motorized screen. So far, monoprice seems to be the cheapest - however the installation instructions are not very clear (particularly the electrical end). Has anyone here had any experience with these screens or can anyone recommend...
  5. Home Theater Design and Construction
    The area where my projector screen is going currently has two 6" Joist mounted recessed lights approx 3ft from the wall and what I am trying to do is create a 3 to 4" drop down ceiling from the the screen wall about 4ft out from the wall and across the entire width of the 120" screen. I'm doing...
  6. Home Theater Design and Construction
    Looking for BLACK 8" Recessed Lighting Fixture Im trying to stay away from spray painting them like others on here...
  7. Home Audio Acoustics
    When treating a room is it better to install room treatments over walls such that they are sticking out, or to design them in and recess them into the walls where the fronts of the treatment are flush with the surrounding wall. Just from pondering the issue it would appear to me that recessing...
  8. Home Theater Design and Construction
    Originally I was not planning on insulating my basement ceiling therefore I bought and installed non ic rated recessed can lights. Well, now I want to insulate my ceiling. Would it be help full at all to just insulate all the areas where there are no cans and leave the areas where the cans are...
  9. DIY Subwoofers - General Discussion
    I'm about to build my floor facing sonosub and I like the idea of recessing (18mm) the speaker up out of the way to minimise the chance of the speaker being poked by things underneath (e.g little kids' sticks, dusters, etc.). Is there any difference in sound between flush and recess mounting...
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