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- Raw - 2011-04-18
More photos:
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?gid=172 (interior)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=159 (exterior, winter)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=160 (exterior, autumn)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=158 (exterior, summer)
http://rpglab.net/nobackup/tunaastrand.JPG (aerial view, with property borders added)
Quote:uaaaaaaau... really big room. A former church?? When you make a statement like that, you should elaborate the story a bit more
It was a church used by Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, who also used it for various summer activities for kids and families, so there also is a small beach, frisbee golf course (9 baskets), beach volleyball court, 36500 m2 land and they also had a small café, all in a very idyllic setting.
However, they couldn't make it finance itself, even using volunteers, and they were running out of active volunteers, so they sold it. I bought it, and furnished it for living instead.
Quote:I'm actually a little disappointed. Before seeing the pictures I imagined a creepy old Gothic building. The kind of theater you wouldn't dare watch The Exorcist or play Left 4 Dead in
This is a modern church, and they've just had ordinary services, possibly weddings. No funerals and stuff. Also, as you can see from the pictures, it's very bright and modern architecture.
Also, it's not a church anymore, they've un-churched it (whatever that is properly called I've got no idea).
Quote:Except that you live in a church. I'm hesitant to set foot in one, and I'd never LIVE in one.
I'm not a religious person, so I don't care about such issues. It's a building, nothing more. A building I love, but not for religious reasons.
Quote:They are often small churches that then get sold off when the church needs to be bigger but the land cant accommodate a bigger church, so they movie to a new site.
Nope, it was I who movied on a new site.
Quote:...and I'm sure that the 1st order reflections (particularly from the center channel drivers placed mere inches from a hard wood floor) don't render a pure, muddy mess of your sound stage. There's no way that your space isn't acoustically infinite meaning that your low end must really pressurize that room. Yeah, I'm positive that the room doesn't sound abysmal...you rock!
Actually, I need some more carpeting and curtains to kill of echoes. The ceiling helps a bit, but the big floor can give echoes.
Also, the rear doors are always open, two big sets of double doors that lead to the rest of the building. They provide a way to avoid the booming of a contained base.
I'm not that hardcore when it comes to sound quality anymore (I used to be), though, as I have a pretty bad case of tinnitus. Spending lots of money on crystal clear sound when you have a constant noise like a nearby highway in your ears is wasted.
Kids, protect your hearing, wear proper hearing protection and wear ear plugs at concerts, or you'll be like me in 10-20 years.
- PatrickVogeli - 2011-04-18
just... wow. I really like that place
Thanks for the photos and the story!
- boykster - 2011-04-20
Definitely a cool property!
Retardation - Jenna - 2011-04-28
Superorb Wrote:+1. Why the US never switched to the metric system is beyond me. Yes, every company would need to retool, but a worldwide standardization on something as fundamental as units of measure would be such a great thing. Plus, metric just plain makes sense.
As I understand it the USA did convert to metric many years ago but the average American shopper couldn't cope with undertsanding that 600ml is about a pint etc and the politicians caved and reverted back to imperial!
Ajajaja bunch of Boobies ( . Y . )
On topic you guys have some nice setups but I think spend way too much on other stuff and have mostly substandard screens when a made in Nippon Koku, Wankasonic 54" latest gen low energy plasma screen is less than 1K!
If you are interested I came here as I wanted to get 1080P happening on my ATV2 that is JB'd with XBMC installed but I only just found out my ATV2 doesn't have a mini PCiE slut to insert a Crystal HD decoder card! :-(
- Superorb - 2011-04-28
^^ Probably because the gov't changed to metric and did not educate the public. They like to change things without educating/notifying the public. Yay US Gov't! People lack a whole lot o common sense in the US unfortunately. Anyone who cannot figure out the Metric system needs to be hit on the head.
The ATV2 will not output 1080 even though it can decode it fine.
- Krazypoloc - 2011-04-28
Raw Wrote:More photos:
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?gid=172 (interior)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=159 (exterior, winter)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=160 (exterior, autumn)
http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?hit=yes&gid=158 (exterior, summer)
http://rpglab.net/nobackup/tunaastrand.JPG (aerial view, with property borders added)
It was a church used by Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, who also used it for various summer activities for kids and families, so there also is a small beach, frisbee golf course (9 baskets), beach volleyball court, 36500 m2 land and they also had a small café, all in a very idyllic setting.
However, they couldn't make it finance itself, even using volunteers, and they were running out of active volunteers, so they sold it. I bought it, and furnished it for living instead.
This is a modern church, and they've just had ordinary services, possibly weddings. No funerals and stuff. Also, as you can see from the pictures, it's very bright and modern architecture.
Also, it's not a church anymore, they've un-churched it (whatever that is properly called I've got no idea).
I'm not a religious person, so I don't care about such issues. It's a building, nothing more. A building I love, but not for religious reasons.
Nope, it was I who movied on a new site.
Actually, I need some more carpeting and curtains to kill of echoes. The ceiling helps a bit, but the big floor can give echoes.
Also, the rear doors are always open, two big sets of double doors that lead to the rest of the building. They provide a way to avoid the booming of a contained base.
I'm not that hardcore when it comes to sound quality anymore (I used to be), though, as I have a pretty bad case of tinnitus. Spending lots of money on crystal clear sound when you have a constant noise like a nearby highway in your ears is wasted.
Kids, protect your hearing, wear proper hearing protection and wear ear plugs at concerts, or you'll be like me in 10-20 years.
Love the house man....just amazing!
- CASHMON3Y - 2011-04-28
I know I said this before earlier in the thread, but I will post some pictures of my setup probably this weekend. I finally bought my rear speakers to complete my 5.1 setup. Plus I have a full MAME cabinet!
- bazwalt - 2011-05-01
Hey Guys,
I'm a new user to these forums. Been lurking for the last few weeks. Thought it was about time I put up some pics of my HT. It is in its humble beginnings as I've never really done a project like this before.
Anyways, here's the link to my gallery of pics: http://flic.kr/ps/X67n6
HTPC Specs:-
OS: XBMC, Dharma (Supporting Software: SickBeard PVR & SABnzb)
Case: Silverstone GD05 Black (no lcd)
Mobo:GA-G41M-COMBO
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8200 (4M Cache, 2.33 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)
Graphics: MSI GF9800GTX+ 512M DDR3 OC
RAM: 1x OCZ 2G DDR3 1333Mhz PC3 10666 Gold
PSU: 550w Antec non-modular (was a random one borrowed off a mate that no longer needed it)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 160GB Serial ATA 7200rpm (plus other random media drives)
Other Stuff:-
TV: Sony Bravia KDL-55EX500 55" LCD TV
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround Sound (DTS supported).
Game Console: Sony PS3 Mini
IR Receiver: Microsoft MCE
Remote: Logitech Harmony 600 Universal Remote
- fryed_1 - 2011-05-01
Extensive as in $$$ or capabilities? Mine was done on a budget, but offers a pretty nice array of capabilities.
Dell media server, handmedown from work upgrades but still has a lot of life in it. It's dual-proc, 2Gb ram with 3x36Gb scsi for OS (ubuntu 10.04 server running sickbeard, sabnzbd+ and couch potato), and 8x2Tb for data. Yeah I know it's dusty... it spends its time sandwiched in a corner and out of sight and often forgotten.
My main PC where all the work is done and actually catch up on my regular shows while the kids are flipping through Dora and Diego episodes on the main TV. AMD 965 [email protected], 8gb ram, 2xHD5870 and triple-headed setup. This machine is triple-booted for Win7, Linux and OSX and each has an XBMC install on it.
I also use mymovies collection management to sort out and scrape movie info.
Bedroom setups (3 of these for my room and 2 kid's rooms): Proscan 19" HDTV. I was using some older-model HP tablet computers in the bottom left of the desktop picture below, but in the last two weeks have upgraded these machines to a batch of AppleTV 1's I picked up off ebay recently. Mine is full access, while the kid's rooms use custom XBMC profiles setup to only show G-rated/kids movies. Each of these runs XBMC on AppleTV
Living room: Samsung 5.1 surround sound, Samsung BD player w/Netflix and cable box. NMedia case with AMD 6000+, 2Gb RAM and 32Gb SSD drive with wireless-N. Visio 32" LED. This one is XBMC live.
Wouldn't let me do more than 6 images... but I still have the 3 tablets that I'm not sure if I'm going to use or not, but each of them run XBMC on Win7.
For remotes I have the apple devices upstairs that all share the same remote, so they're always easily found. I have a standard MCE remote for the living room, plus an android phone, an ipad and an itouch.
All TV's (with exception of filtering on the kid's tv's) show the same information in the same style. Goal was so my g/f could come in, pick up a remote and not have to do anything crazy or learn a new language to watch a movie and so far, it seems to be working! Even the kids know how to grab a remote (either ipad or ATV remote) and pick a movie or TV show for them to watch.
All TV shows via sickbeard are automatically downloaded, categorized and ready for viewing without having to touch anything. I'm still working on a way to better automate the same for movies, such as when a Netflix DVD comes in, toss it in, rip it, scrape it with mymovies, drop it in the correct folder and update the XBMC front ends... without having to do anything other than put the disc in the player, but that's not quite working right yet.
- Superorb - 2011-05-02
^^ Nice. How old are your kids?
- fryed_1 - 2011-05-02
3 and 5. The 3rd is kind of random on how she pics shows/movies, but the 5yr old can easily navigate through the tv shows or movies on the ipad or remotes to pick what she wants.
- Superorb - 2011-05-02
fryed_1 Wrote:3 and 5. The 3rd is kind of random on how she pics shows/movies, but the 5yr old can easily navigate through the tv shows or movies on the ipad or remotes to pick what she wants.Pretty cool. So now I can say that "if a 5 year old can do it, so can you" to anyone who uses it
- Parhelion - 2011-05-16
I don't have a really complex setup. But here is what I do have:
First in the bedroom:
Then the main setup in the living room:
And the view from the front:
I haven't really done any work to hide cables. Also since I used XBMC to replace the DVD player and digital set top box, I haven't decided what to do with the vacant spaces in the entertainment unit.
- Superorb - 2011-05-16
^^ PC specs?
- Parhelion - 2011-05-16
Superorb Wrote:^^ PC specs?
I have a small form-factor Ubuntu home server with the following:
3 x 2TB WD Green Drives
Core i3-2120
4GB Ram
Zotac H67 mini ITX board
This runs as the server and is also the XBMC box for the spare bedroom.
My two XMBC boxes in the pictures above are both Eee Boxes. EB1501 ION boxes, functionally identical to the Asrock ION boxes except they also have DVD drives. They are both running an Ubuntu minimal install, with the XBMC Live script taking them straight to XBMC. They function exactly like appliances, which is a big factor in getting the wife to use XBMC!
They are networked to the home server.