no,i was being serious about the lesson.i got out of theories and laws and whys and hows before i should have,they say it's never too late,but with my feeble little brain,too much new info and i would probably forget how to paint.

Painttoad, cool pics . See your a big blue fan . What kind of JL subs are those WO's, W3's or W6's ?

thanks,yeah,something about blue...

w3's with dual 6 ohm coils=====4 ohm mono
that much i do know

'nut,ain't talked in awhile,cool lookin house,don't mess with the garage,1st storm you'll wish your wheels were inside!

JL is going to be coming out with home speakers soon . I saw the proto prototypes while on a training tour in florida . Pretty cool stuff .

maybe we should start a new thread for this painttoad .

i'll start it.

Moved my computer room today, so a bit late on the responses.

E'pin is right, I was just trying to create a simple mental picture of basically what goes on.. Frankly, there is NO way to measure room modes based on calculations alone. It has to be done with a substantial amount of equipment.

I did mean to say the size in ft, not speed in ft, my bad.. and my guess may be off by a foot or two, it was just done from memory.. It still stands that a 55ft sound wave will bounce off flat hard surfaces a number of times before dissipating..

My theater room was designed with 8" thick walls of heavy insulation and when you stand in the room and talk, it is extremely dead, no reflected sound.. There are a number of absorbing an reflecting surfaces that affect the way sound acts in the room.

The best advice I can give is large flat hard surfaces are the worst... Do what you can to break up those surfaces, beams help, soft materials helps, carpet helps and if you have a projector, put in heavy curtains on the front wall. I am still working on those, I don't sow..

I got the room dimensions today 42' X 11' 10" . A little wider than the pics would have you believe , I think.

Great length! Little skinny..14 to 16 would be nice..

Whats the ceiling height?

Should be quite doable - that's a little wider than my old living room was. With your big screen and towers it'll be a bit narrow if you put the screen on a short wall (mains will be crowded into the corners). You could always make the 12' dimension the depth (with the TV on a long wall), but since you're doing 7.1 you'll want to keep the seating pulled forward from the back wall of the room.

I don't think there will be room for my entertainment furniture. I may have to work something else out there and just pull my towers a little forward. I forgot to ask ceiling height. I don't think it's any more than 8 feet though. (?)

The owner actually demoed his HT for me last night but it was really hard to say how the wood beams affected the sound because it was not my HT, ya know? And I gotta thank you guys. Because of (mostly) what I have read here you guys have helped me really put together a killer sounding system. I was actually able to help him out with his and give him some good advice on his equipment. Boy was he surprised that a woman actually knew something about HT.