My name is Barry Gordon. You can find out a lot more about me at www.the-gordons.net. My Hobbies are Music, Movies and building things. When my late wife and I designed our home we put in a "Home Theater". The room was desinged as an adult playroom.
The video details are front projection at 720P to a 10 foot wide screen. There are twin DVR's, Twin DVD megachangers, A PS2 game system and a Photobridge Hidef media player. The audio side of the room has seven B&W Signature Seven in wall speakers with matching (volume and padding) enclosures plus a 12" Vellodyne sub. The Sub has its own 1200 watt amp, and the other seven speakers are fed by an Outlaw 200 watts/channel seven channel power amp. The audio processor is a Lexicon MC-1 which only does audio as video processing is handled by a DVDO VP50 scaler. The transporter went in last week replacing a Turtle beach Audiotron as the Theater music source. Major difference in sound quality. The Audiotron now feeds the house background music system. The Transporter feeds the MC-1 through its coaxial S/PDIF output. The music is all stored as FLAC or MPG3 files on a server that is in the electronics room of the house. It is up 24x7 and also handles my web site. The FLAC files are from DTS CD's while the MPEG files are from normal CD's. When I get some time I will re-rip the CD's to FLAC. All of my music is stored on the server and can be played via the Transporter in the Theater, Through the Audiotron or Transporter in the Great Room via the house music system, or through a Squeezebox in the Master bedroom. The Slim Server (ergo all of the players) is completely controlled by either the iPronto remote in the Theater or the in wall touch screens throughout the house. In the Theater the library can be displayed on the big screen along with the current playlist and full control is provided via the iPronto remote using the CLI TCP/IP interface to the slimserver. The iPronto actually communicates only with the PC that controls the Theater components which does all of the heavy IR, RS232, or TCP/IP lifting for the whole house. A high quality TelARC DTS CD sounds absolutely awesome in the Theater/Music room. All seven channels are active and the sound is just what I was looking (Listening?) for. My tastes in music run from semi classics (Arron Copland, Boston Pops) to blues in a club environment (Nora Jones, Dianna Krall, etc) to good Jazz. My SO is into Rock so she often exercises the room. I guess thats enough for now. -- barrygordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
