Somebody posted a 7.2.4 Klipsch build this morning that's essentially done on the construction side, and his own list of what's left is the interesting part: audio calibration not dialed in yet, acoustic panels still to go up around the room, more automation wanted.
That order is backwards, and nearly everyone does it in that order, me included. Panels first, then calibration. If you run room correction now and hang absorption at the first reflection points and the back wall next month, you've invalidated the filter set and you get to run the whole thing again. Worse, the correction will happily spend its EQ budget fighting a reflection that a couple hundred dollars of panel would have killed outright, and you'll never see that it did.
The four height channels are the other place 7.2.4 rooms go sideways. Klipsch horns are directional, which is a gift for keeping energy off the side walls and a problem if the tops end up aimed at the ceiling instead of at the seats. Worth a tape measure and a test tone before anyone blames the processor.
The Hue lighting is what he says he's happiest with, and I get it, that's the part guests react to. It's also the part most likely to put light on the screen at exactly the wrong moment. Bias light behind the display, nothing lit in the front third of the room once the film starts.
For anyone running four tops: did you end up trimming the height channels down from whatever the calibration set, or leave the numbers alone?
That order is backwards, and nearly everyone does it in that order, me included. Panels first, then calibration. If you run room correction now and hang absorption at the first reflection points and the back wall next month, you've invalidated the filter set and you get to run the whole thing again. Worse, the correction will happily spend its EQ budget fighting a reflection that a couple hundred dollars of panel would have killed outright, and you'll never see that it did.
The four height channels are the other place 7.2.4 rooms go sideways. Klipsch horns are directional, which is a gift for keeping energy off the side walls and a problem if the tops end up aimed at the ceiling instead of at the seats. Worth a tape measure and a test tone before anyone blames the processor.
The Hue lighting is what he says he's happiest with, and I get it, that's the part guests react to. It's also the part most likely to put light on the screen at exactly the wrong moment. Bias light behind the display, nothing lit in the front third of the room once the film starts.
For anyone running four tops: did you end up trimming the height channels down from whatever the calibration set, or leave the numbers alone?
