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Well, took a little road trip to Plano/Frisco this weekend to hit Ikea and Frys. Scored a new Denon X3300W for $499 OTD. Frys does crazy sales on those Denons once in awhile. So now i can pass 4k from the FireTV and the XB1. Last upgrade for the living room will be to get 3 new speakers...

Update: The Outlaw system works well for our application (Thanks, Chuck!). I bought a pair of powered monitor speakers https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016P9HJIA/ Edifier R1280T. I set them up as Zone2, so i can control the volume independently. On the Yamaha receiver, i just hit "Party...

We get back from the east coast tomorrow, so I should be able to try it out soon. I believe Rocketfish sells something similar, available on Amazon.

Most important is the tv content itself, as we want to be able to hear the news etc on the tv better while prepping dinner. Extending music is a nice bonus.

Haywood, that was my first thought, but i've heard the delay is really bad with BT, so it might create weird echoing. Yes, Sonos would work, but that seemed really expensive for me to just use its basic functionality. Heos i could never figure out exactly what i'd need to buy. Chuck, i'll PM...

Wasn't sure where to put this question, so it's going here: I need a solution to be able to extend the TV's sound into the kitchen... I have my Yamaha receiver powering a 5.1 system in the living room, but the kitchen (open to the LR as you can see) needs more audio. I can't run wires (at...

That's the stuff my MIL used to make me curtains for the little windows in our theater in PA. That stuff absorbs a lot of light! It's tough to get a good picture of it.

Looks great, guys. Not just the theater, but everything you've posted of the condo. Hopefully we'll get to see it sometime. And you're welcome to head down to OKC whenever!

Looking forward to having guests! Perhaps a mid-west GTG in the spring.... :D :drinkingbeer:

See if it works now. Pics now hosted on Flickr.

Relax your tights, i'm working on it. Due to my employer's draconian IT policies, i can't upload any pictures to any image hosting site. Have to do it on my phone, which has shitty service in our Faraday-cage-like building.

Hmm, using Google (all pics i take with my phone get automatically backed up to Google Photos). Weird that it works for some and not others. I'll try to figure it out.

Vizio TV is great so far. I wasn't sure 65" would be big enough in that room, and there aren't many 70" tvs (75" tvs really jump up in price). The M-series Vizio is FALD, 4K, HDR (both versions), etc. I briefly considered doing a 65" OLED, but for 50% more price, i didn't think the picture...

Sorry for the long absence. Been crazy here with the new job, looking for a new house, closing on said house, upacking all our crap, getting the kids settled into school, etc. The bad news: no more theater. We'll make due with what we have for now. The good news: a much bigger, newer...

Wow, looking great. I don't think i'd have to guts to get up on that scaffolding. Hope you got it sturdy enough so it wasn't too life-threatening. You're posting here, and presumably not in traction, so i assume it all went well! :)

Haha, thanks John. Yes, we're definitely going to be making some trips to explore the midwest and visit friends and family once we're settled out here. I have an aunt & uncle in Fort Smith, so we may end up visiting AR somewhat often. And I know nothing is OFFICIALLY official until the...

This thread makes me nostalgic for when i was planning my basement theater. It also makes me sad that we are leaving it behind, and that we haven't had any luck finding a house here in OKC that could support such a room. We've been looking at homes that are up to roughly double the sqft of our...

IN! Congrats, looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Maybe in 6 months i can start a similar thread. Although basements are hard to come by in OK...

On a related note, i'll be renting a room for a few months between when i move out and Renate heads out with the kids (we don't want to pull them out of school mid-year). Because of that, i want to buy a decent set of headphones, preferably around the $100 price point, but i wouldn't be against...

Thanks guys (and Barb). Botch, we are definitely aware of the tornado risk, so if we don't have a basement, we'll get a place with a storm shelter. We are only looking to live north of OKC, though, and it's really south of the city that gets them more (e.g. Moore, Norman). Deacon, hosting a...