Sound like a buddy of mine. The AV quality is never good enough. He’ll spend an entire movie messing with the settings instead of watching the damn thing
It can become obsessive, no doubt.
I'm not too bad though. As long as edid is good, and the sound has been balanced well I'm a happy camper.
I love outdoor shit the best. It's almost worry free because you can't tune audio outside (no confined spaces, it's the easiest thing ever) and video is as simple as turn it on and make it hit the screen.
That's a solid projector but the price lol, damn.
one of the perks to being a pro AV guy is dealer status and exposure to the inner workings of the sales structures. I didn't pay out the ass for it. The killer about this stuff is the resale price. I maybe have 500 hours on that thing and it would sell for like 3k max. Crazy shit lol.
What kind of setup do you have if you don't mind my asking
my setup is out of sorts as we speak because of my living situation but I have some cool gear.
I have three screens for the projector: one being a modest pull down that we've used indoors but it's just a white fabric so nothing special really (being replaced in the buildout with a true HD screen that'll be recessed into the ceiling), a giant 13' wide screen for outdoor use but it's a high definition fabric so you actually get high def resolution being thrown back at your eyes (made to mount to a wall or ceiling), and a giant portable screen that has metal frame, can be setup anywhere (not true HD fabric). This is commonly used for ufc fights or other cool shit during the summer and fall.
For audio I have a bunch of new stuff for the buildout. I have 10 pairs of ceiling speakers (crestron aspire ic6) for whole house audio, I'll have 4 or 5 Sonos zones to accommodate. I run everything through a couple biamp tesira DSPs for tuning, control and distribution. I use a crown amp and a crestron amp to drive the speakers (crown cts 8200 + crestron 1200-70).
For control of everything I use a crestron cp3n processor. I have a few tsw-760 panels for control but with the new house I'm most likely just going to develop a cellphone app for each room. (Although the Sonos gear will be using its own phone software, too). I figure I'll have a tsw-760 in the living and master areas (along with app control), every other space will just have app control.
Video is undecided as of yet. I do have a crestron dmps3-4k-150-c and a variety of video distribution shit, but I'm not certain of what I'm putting where. I'm trying to get a commercial grade monitor for the living room but those can get costly. They are a better product though, not even for one second do I think otherwise.
I'm just starting to put my brain on the home theater side of this shit, tbh. I have a couple receivers (Yamaha, Denon and a marantz) but they are all children's toys. I've been thinking about a used Mcintosh system. They're amazing for quality and sound reproduction. Play a real vinal record through a Mcintosh system and try to not loose your mind by how wicked it sounds. It's unreal how much we are missing from music with streaming. It's really convenient but half as good. Looking at like 4/5 grand for something respectable in the "high end" category for a receiver. The only problem with getting a head unit like that is now you need speakers that can reproduce what the receiver is capable of. I generally lean to B&W for this buuuuuuuut my budget can only handle so much before a beautiful 5'2" blond woman with double d boobs decides to cleave off my balls for spending all of this money without telling her....
