Well this is long overdue, but I promised I'd write something about my experience with @heeman's HT. While there might have been some alcohol involved at times 
there were at least a few occasions where we were clear-headed enough to do some serious evaluation.
First impression: when you walk into the room, you can just hear the effect of the acoustic work he's done in there. Or rather, you don't hear much at all, it's just ... quiet. While I've been in some outstanding HTs of various members here, I have never been in a room that's so fully built and treated for sound, so this was an entirely new experience for me.
We went through some 2ch demo music, both of Keith's and my own usual evaluation tracks. Imaging was outstanding, very clear separation of sounds, left to right. I did not get quite the sense of forward/back depth of soundstage, comparing mainly to @Zing's - but Zing's room layout is completely different, with the speakers much further out into the room which is oriented the "long" way (screen on the short wall). I think that placement has a lot to do with it, or at least that's my unscientific impression. And sometimes I think that this front/back stuff in a stereo recording is largely just a trick of imagination, not really something in the recording itself... dunno.
Anyway, I've heard the Dyn C1 before, at @CMonster's old house, so I kinda had some idea what to expect there, and they did not disappoint. Clear midrange and treble, no shrillness, except on one or two tracks but I can reasonably conclude that the recordings were at fault in these cases, somewhat harsh vocals.
But what completely blew me away about this HT was the bass. I mean, I've heard tons of bass output before, but never in a room that makes the bass so CLEAN. I consider myself completely schooled in what proper, tight, clean, effortless bass can sound like, and again this was a totally new experience for me. It's hard to even describe in words, sort of a know-it-when-you-hear-it kind of deal. All I can say is, wow, between the bass bins, sub placement, and bass traps and general acoustics, it was amazing. I never knew that bass could sound as articulate as midrange.
Musically the highlight of my time there was the Norah Jones concert video I posted about. But we listened to a lot of stuff of various styles, and it was a great time. Man I wish I had room (and budget) for a system like that... makes my poor little HT-like-thing seem pretty pitiful. Keith's put a HUGE amount of work into that room, and it shows, and it has clearly paid off. Something to be proud of, for sure.
And oh yeah there might have been a pretty passable projector and screen setup in there too... I barely noticed. (Actually it was great and the movie experience was a lot of fun, but you all know that the video side of things has never been my biggest interest.)
there were at least a few occasions where we were clear-headed enough to do some serious evaluation.First impression: when you walk into the room, you can just hear the effect of the acoustic work he's done in there. Or rather, you don't hear much at all, it's just ... quiet. While I've been in some outstanding HTs of various members here, I have never been in a room that's so fully built and treated for sound, so this was an entirely new experience for me.
We went through some 2ch demo music, both of Keith's and my own usual evaluation tracks. Imaging was outstanding, very clear separation of sounds, left to right. I did not get quite the sense of forward/back depth of soundstage, comparing mainly to @Zing's - but Zing's room layout is completely different, with the speakers much further out into the room which is oriented the "long" way (screen on the short wall). I think that placement has a lot to do with it, or at least that's my unscientific impression. And sometimes I think that this front/back stuff in a stereo recording is largely just a trick of imagination, not really something in the recording itself... dunno.
Anyway, I've heard the Dyn C1 before, at @CMonster's old house, so I kinda had some idea what to expect there, and they did not disappoint. Clear midrange and treble, no shrillness, except on one or two tracks but I can reasonably conclude that the recordings were at fault in these cases, somewhat harsh vocals.
But what completely blew me away about this HT was the bass. I mean, I've heard tons of bass output before, but never in a room that makes the bass so CLEAN. I consider myself completely schooled in what proper, tight, clean, effortless bass can sound like, and again this was a totally new experience for me. It's hard to even describe in words, sort of a know-it-when-you-hear-it kind of deal. All I can say is, wow, between the bass bins, sub placement, and bass traps and general acoustics, it was amazing. I never knew that bass could sound as articulate as midrange.
Musically the highlight of my time there was the Norah Jones concert video I posted about. But we listened to a lot of stuff of various styles, and it was a great time. Man I wish I had room (and budget) for a system like that... makes my poor little HT-like-thing seem pretty pitiful.
Keith's put a HUGE amount of work into that room, and it shows, and it has clearly paid off. Something to be proud of, for sure.And oh yeah there might have been a pretty passable projector and screen setup in there too... I barely noticed.
(Actually it was great and the movie experience was a lot of fun, but you all know that the video side of things has never been my biggest interest.)
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But Keith's posted plenty in 
