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- Superorb - 2011-04-10 18:28
Raw Wrote:So, now you can all go home and weep, I have the coolest home theater...
Except that you live in a church. I'm hesitant to set foot in one, and I'd never LIVE in one. Did the church go out of business and you bought it? Kidding aside, I am curious to know how one buys a church.
- Aslan2120 - 2011-04-10 18:33
I dont have any pictures of mine right now, but I am currently running 4 AppleTVs with the crystal HD card. They are all running Sam's ubuntu image off the hard drive and connected to my home network. A Netgear NV+ NAS with 3 TB running raid 5 holds all of the media and mysql is running on a Win7 computer that also has sickbeard for TV show management.
I love the AppleTVs (0nce you remove Frontrow) casue they are cheap and quiet.
It took a shile to get everything working right but the familly loves it now lol.
- opm881 - 2011-04-11 03:51
thunderbunny Wrote:Here's my setup.What skin is that?
47" Toshiba LCD
Pioneer 600W Receiver
Yamaha 5.1 Surround Speakers
Pioneer Blu Ray
NMedia 2000B>
i3-550, 4GB RAM, ATI HD5550 Graphics
Xbox 360 w/Kinect
Original Xbox still rocking XBMC since 2005
http://www.engagemediastl.com/xbmc/xbmc_setup.JPG
Superorb Wrote:Except that you live in a church. I'm hesitant to set foot in one, and I'd never LIVE in one. Did the church go out of business and you bought it? Kidding aside, I am curious to know how one buys a church.It appears to be a rather common thing in the UK/Europe. 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. Its just a build really. There was an episode on Grand designs(or that show with the british blonde woman who follows first time renovators or something) I think it was where someone retrofitted a church into a home.
- thunderbunny - 2011-04-11 04:00
@opm881
It's Aeon MQ2 using showcase view.
- TonyNoone - 2011-04-11 05:30
Raw Wrote:So, now you can all go home and weep, I have the coolest home theater...
...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!
- Raw - 2011-04-18 21:01
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 21:20
just... wow. I really like that place
Thanks for the photos and the story!
- boykster - 2011-04-20 00:50
Definitely a cool property!
Retardation - Jenna - 2011-04-28 07:28
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 17:27
^^ 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.