I'm doing my living room soon and instead of going to a 75" I'm going to a 55" as I watch too much Football, F1 and MOTOGP. What year is the OLED as I'm torn on if I want to get one or not.
Cheers Gunny - at least gives me a number to think about. I reckon 5ish then without your wall/pipework and speakers (maybe £4k). That's not too bad if the wall is getting knocked through from the kitchen anyway, I can add it to the bill. LG C6 - but I got it late in the day. Last of the V8s 3D sets (if you got that MM reference then all power to you). COD on the 360 in 3D is mental, Sine Mora also not too bad. I was going to send it for repair, but I'm worried it'll come back worse now that they've stopped making the 3D panels. No-one told me about burn-in when I bought it - should I have known? Maybe, but I thought those days were gone with the plasmas (which wasn't even too bad). My OLED burnt in through what seems like non-static usage (subtitles) in a fraction of the time I had my plasma, which never burnt in at all. I dunno, just feel a bit put off by OLEDs now, but I realise the tech has come on in leaps since. Seriously looking at that Sony top LED one just to be safe. Why are you downsizing just for the sport? Surely bigger = better?
Finally doing the last job on the MF B1. The volume knobs were chipped badly and faded. How I managed to mask the indicators is a mystery, but fine line tape did the job very well. All I need to do now is put some 2k clear on them when I do my bike wheel (you only get one day with 2k as it has hardener in you release). And then I can finally button the amp back up and present it to my care worker.
You have a marvellous knob (the quote text even specifies your "member"). What do you use for this? I've had some shocking experience of late with Flame paint. Never touching it again. Used the Kobra matt varnish, hoping it holds up.
For this I used cheap acrylic black, but then I pushed the boat out and used real 2k clear in a can. https://www.specialistpaints.com/products/clear-coat-kustom-canz You can tell if it is real 2k by the fact it has that plastic cap on the bottom of the can. That contains this. I wanted it hard. Mostly as they are things you touch every time you use the amp. That said, I did not buy it specifically for that. I bought it to do a wheel and then did those before it all turns to a lump of rock in 48 hours inside the can lol.
took some A/L to smash out the living room, had the rear wall boarded over with more soundboard and made some neat boxes to hide pipework in the corners, needs one last coat but I'm back in tomorrow and the CBA was strong today. I'll probably paint it after work and then let it cure for a few days before getting the skirting/architrave in. Looking at end of next month now before I have the capital to buy the remaining speakers and any odds/sods for the media server but once the skirting is done I'll FINALLY get the carpet and couch delivered and have a usable room.
Decided to drop from Bronze 100's to 50s for the rears due to the size of the 100's being too large, gonna admit I was concerned I was going to lose out on audio quality but being rears it would have been an acceptable loss, they arrived today and as with all new toys they need to be played with hooked them into mt PC setup which is still chugging along via SPDIF to an old 22 year old amp/receiver but even with that I gotta say I am genuinely ****ing amazed by both the quality and throw of these little things, cant wait to get the mains and play with those next month.
so the light at the end of the tunnel is finally getting closer, skirting and architrave is done, routed out the the front skirting and got wires through the wall neatly, just waiting for caulk to cure before sticking connection boxes on, all speakers bar SW are here and the AMP is coming at the end of the month, currently fighting the carpet company over delayed delivery but that should hopefully be in and fitted come end of the week, then its sofa delivery before getting the ****ing TV FINALLY on the wall. man i just wanna ****ing sit down at some point
So I'm finally at a point now where I can't do anything else to the room (albeit paint the door frame but I'll do that after the sofa has been delivered) the wiring is all done and I've marked out the rough placement for the tv on the wall. carpet is now arriving on Wednesday with the sofa finally arriving a week Monday and its got me thinking about the actual HTPC side of it, I don't fancy building a tiny SFF micro-atx with no horsepower to run it as I plan on doing a bit of gaming on it as well, my old 2080ti-fe will be coming out of retirement until i can swap it out for a more efficient 40xx down the line. the thing I'm unsure of right now is the actual media server side of it. It's been a while since I've played with plex but looking at it now it seems as though it has its own player built in which is a bit **** as I couldn't find any way of tinkering with it or swapping it out for my preferred MPC-HT w/ LAV as I've experience with configuring it to output Atmos and HDR10+/DoVi to external receivers (fun fact MPC-HT even has the option to use convert SDR to HDR using Nvidias new RTX-HDR) so what are people using for media servers these days?
I'm using Jellyfin, you can configure it to use an external player (at least on Android), and it'll also do DLNA so any half decent video player will do.
spending the night looking around it looks like Kodi might be exactly what I need, albeit it'll involve some ****ing around to get MPC-HT to become its default player but its doable.
been a busy week, carpet landed last week, sofa was delivered yesterday and today with a friends help I cored out the wall for cabling and mounted the TV on it. my god it is ****ing stunning, its so thin, the way the mounting bracket folds into the back of the tv means it only protrudes 2.5cm from the wall. Only got it on wireless at the moment whilst I build the back end but even with shitty streaming compression I've lost track of the amount of times I've whistled loudly whilst viewing something, cant wait to get some Dolby Vision content on the go with it in the coming weeks. only gripe I've found so far is the wireless connectivity itself, it struggles to reach the router upstairs so I've had to hotspot my phone and use it as a network relay for the time being.
