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[mojave]

I've been helping a friend with his home theater. He recently finished it and is having an Open House on June 28 in Des Moines, IA. If you would like to attend, please PM me. The theater is about 245 miles from JRiver headquarters. It would be great if someone from JRiver could attend. Jeff with JTR Speakers and Chris with Seymour AV will be present attending.

Features of the theater:

• HTPC running JRiver Media Center
• 24,000+ watts
• 15 channels of output using Solid State Logic Alpha Link MX and MadiXtreme card
• DirecTV via Hauppauge Colossus card in HTPC
• Three JTR 212HT-LP mains
• Six JTR Single 8 surrounds
• Two JTR S2 Captivator sealed subs with dual 18" drivers
• Four Subs with sealed 18" Acoustic Elegance PB18H+ drivers
• Seymour AV Center Stage XD 148" wide screen
• Sony HW55ES projector
• Acoustical treatments and sound isolation
• Audio correction with Audiolense
• Video correction with 3DLUT file loaded in madVR
• Mojave's secret sauce

[astromo]

Is that sauce of yours bottled for the export market?

I'd be keen but it's a bit too far to travel.

Sounds like a good photo opp. Looking forward to the post event report..  

[kensn]

Holy Smokes!!

I mean... that looks all right I guess... 

[jmone]

24,000+ watts

JRiver will not need to send anyone - they will hear it without problems from where they are!

[glynor]

Holy Smokes!!

I mean... that looks all right I guess... 

Yeah. It'll do for starters.   

[mojave]

I'm going back to the theater on June 6-7. We plan to do the following:

• experimenting more with how we want to do the bass management
• tweaking the Audiolense filters
• creating a 3DLUT file for madVR
• creating madVR Profile Groups if necessary
• making sure DirecTV/Colossus work well with the latest build fixes
• setting up automated switching to Arcsoft TMT for 3D Blu-ray
• setting up any required Views
• adding some Zones for the GTG with different settings for comparison

I still need to figure out madVR Profile Groups since I haven't used any before. I tried to setup automatic switching to Arcsoft using jmone's script, but didn't get it to work. I didn't have much time to troubleshoot. We actually haven't even gotten 3D to play yet. Anything special required for the Nvidia drivers?

Any suggestions that will add some bling for the Open House like custom Views, Theater View skins, etc.?

There will be two additional zones upstairs for listening during the Open House. These will be controlled with Gizmo/JRemote.

Salk Stereo Zone:

• Mytek Stereo192-DSD DAC
• Wyred 4 Sound WS1000 monoblock amps
• Salk Veracity HT2-TL speakers

JTR Stereo Zone:

• Lynx Studio Aurora 16 DAC
• Digital Amp Company Cherry Plus monoblock amps
• JTR Speakers 215RT speakers

[glynor]

His script references mc18.exe which won't work on mc19 without modification.

Nathan, if you see this, a better way is to use MCWS and point at localhost.  That doesn't change from version to version.  See my Library Switch script for examples (in MCUtilities).

[mattkhan]

creating madVR Profile Groups if necessary

this is v straightforward if all you're doing is switching between bd and dvd quality sources. It looks like it gets much more involved if have a wide variety of content & the UI is not the friendliest as there is no obvious way, that I have found, to verify that file X will hit profile Y except for playing them back one by one.

As an example, my profile is just

if (srcHeight < 577) and (deintFps < 31) "SD 24fps"
elseif (srcHeight < 577) "SD"
elseif (deintFps < 26) "1080p24"
else "1080p60"

My approach was to pick out a file of each type that I (seem to) have (means 1080p, 1080i, 576p, 576i) along with a few variants for the SD stuff (animation, tv etc). I then walked through them cranking up settings until it reported dropped frames in the madvr stats, I would then back off a setting here or there to see what bought it back into line. In total, this took <1hr... mainly because I could barely see any difference between most of the settings, I'm obviously not a pixel peeper If you are short of time then I would concentrate on the 3D LUT.

[mojave]

The Savoy was just named Home Theater of the Month at AVSForum!

HT of the Month: The Savoy

[JimH]

Congratulations, mojave! Thanks for putting JRiver in it.