1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 Welcome to my home theater tour. This has never been filmed before. I really want to get like a 90s 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:11,600 office style kind of placard for this door that says the void because that is how I refer to this 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,800 room. You'll see why. It's because the blackest paint you can get, come here, doesn't really look 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:24,080 that black when you put it beside velvet. And I wanted it to be dark in here. So all the walls, 5 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:30,880 the backs of the doors, the ceiling are all velvet. It's very weird. Would I do it again? I don't 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:36,960 think so, but I have it. The darkest room in the neighborhood, for sure. I feel like if you just, 7 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,480 if I just, if you just walk, start walking backwards, just decision to darken this. Come on in. 8 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,520 I'll start with the speaker tour. It's the same speakers I had during my upgrade, which are just 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,800 clipped ones, reference series, or no, reference premiere. So they're mid-fi. They're not crazy. 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:01,360 They're just really good value. And I have a pretty good room for them. So I haven't been able to 11 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:08,400 justify spending, I don't know what I would spend, 5,000 plus to upgrade these. I only spent probably 12 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:16,880 a thousand on them so far. So I think it's just going to take a big jump. And probably me having 13 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,480 no kids with no college funds before I can justify that kind of jump, I'm still happy. 14 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,800 But the last time I talked to you guys, I had what? Five of them, I think. 5.0 is how my upgrade 15 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:38,480 started. But now I've got 5.4.2. So let me show you. So what does that mean? So that means that I 16 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,680 have the two towers on the left and right, the center speaker down there. I got two surrounds 17 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:49,200 over here. And then I have four ceiling speakers. There's two kind of right here, kind of by the 18 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:55,840 your feet. And then the other two are just behind, above slash behind your head. So the idea is you 19 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:01,920 want to be able to hear like a helicopter moving over you. A lot of the time, just like surrounds 20 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,040 on actually, it's not about hearing a thing like a fly buzzing around your ear. Most of the time, 21 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,840 it's about just immersion, like the rain is falling kind of all the way around you. But sometimes 22 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:18,640 sometimes you're like, is it? Is there a storm outside? Or is there a cop outside? Like it's so 23 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:22,240 sometimes it's so immersive that you actually don't even know what's real or not. It can be. 24 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,600 I've had to like pause the movie sometimes to see if there's someone at my door. 25 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,280 How much does it all cost? So for the speakers, I got all of them on 26 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,920 actually not all of them. I got most of them on Facebook, Marketplace, Secondhand. I got them all 27 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:46,800 piecemeal. I got the towers, I think. I can't remember if they were like $400 just for the two 28 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,600 of them, which I thought was great. And this is Canadian. But then the center, I think, again, 29 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,600 this is like five plus years ago, but I think the center I paid almost as much as I did the two 30 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,560 towers. That was a different seller way later. The, I got original boxes for the two surrounds. 31 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,280 So I don't think I bought them new, though. I think I got them from like second turn or 32 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,880 some kind of auction site or something. But I think I paid about 600 just for those. 33 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,040 The ones in the ceiling, they are not nice. You don't need to spend a lot on those because, 34 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,120 again, they're mostly just ambient sounds. They're just some Yamaha ones. I think I've got 35 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:29,040 all four of them for like 150, maybe $200 Canadian. Again, Marketplace. The subs I did get from SVS 36 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,520 knew. Subs are not cheap. I'm pretty sure they were like 800 plus each or something like that. 37 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:39,600 Yeah, that's cheap. Dude, and that was with a heavy discount. Thank you, SVS. Like as you saw in the upgrade video, 38 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,040 I didn't have subs for a while and I thought it was fine. Subs are really the difference 39 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,200 between whether you have a home theater or not. If you don't have subs, you don't have a home theater. 40 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,560 With these things, like the rumble, like I can confidently say, like, there's no reason for me 41 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,560 to go to a movie theater. It's just as good or better because I'm not around people on their 42 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:02,240 phones. I'm not like stepping in sticky pop. The AV experience in here is as good or better 43 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,960 than any cinema I can go to. Despite me only having a 65-inch TV, which I know a lot of 44 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,080 people are going to be like, brah, too. There was actually a little girl who lives in the 45 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,880 neighborhood. I have kids. I guess the word got around. She said, I heard you have a home theater. 46 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:21,200 She came in here and was like, this is not a movie theater. That's a normal TV. I was like, 47 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,040 you just sit closer to it. But I would like to have a 77-plus in here. There's rumor at the 48 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:31,520 Christmas party. There's going to be a high-sense 160-inch there that I might just really try to 49 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,960 get, but I think I'm against Elijah for that. So I might have to break his kneecaps. This door 50 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:42,560 actually has panels, like decorative kind of panels, and I filled them all with wood. I made 51 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,760 this door way more thick and heavy. It's really heavy. You made the door? No, no. I bought a door 52 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,760 and marketplace, a solid-core door, and then I added more material to it just to make it super 53 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:57,200 thick so that it's super soundproof because my sister lives over there and she doesn't want to 54 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,600 hear my movies and I don't want to hear what she's doing. And I got this cool porcelain door knob on 55 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,560 all the doors, even though it's white and not black like everything else in here. It turns out 56 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:12,640 having everything black sucks. It's like, you know how hard it is to find the light switch sometimes? 57 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,280 You're just groping in the dark in here. So it's actually nice to have the porcelain white 58 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,600 door knobs. I couldn't get porcelain black either. They were like five times the price, so I was like, 59 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,240 screw it. The white looks cool. Have you thought of like painting it? Like, you know, the darkest 60 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,240 paint in the world? I don't know. It's kind of like this paint. Like, the more matte it is, the 61 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:36,800 kind of weaker and fingerprinty it is. You see how it gets so dirty so easily? Yeah, so these star 62 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,800 ceilings is something a number of people have done in the home theater world. There's YouTube videos 63 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,600 you can follow along. We'll actually do this in the automotive world. All it is is you buy these 64 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:52,000 fiber optic kind of light generators that have like a like a big pipe of fiber optic strands 65 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,400 and the strands just go out from the generator and then they spread out like this and you just poke 66 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,800 holes and feed them through the holes and then put a glob of glue so they don't come backwards 67 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,200 and then you snip them off and then the light from the generator travels down the fiber optic 68 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:12,080 strands. Here you go. And some of them are thicker than others. There's like, I think three different 69 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,800 sizes in there. So some of them look like closer or brighter stars than others. And you can see 70 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,920 there's a twinkle feature. You can change the twinkle speed. You can change the color. You can 71 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,480 there's all the stupid features like make it match the music, which it just never works. But 72 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:33,760 yeah, I kind of thought it was cheesy at first, but it really I think elevates the space makes it 73 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,760 way more cool to chill in. And that's what this room is for. It's not just for movies. It's for 74 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,600 like the late end of the party. Come for the final six people at your party, just like chilling, 75 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,880 listening to music. Great room for that. So the biggest difference with this room is all the sound 76 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,360 treatment in here. It's like a freaking recording studio in here. And because of the bell that you 77 00:06:53,360 --> 00:07:00,880 really just can't tell it all. So for example, this whole wall, this I'm telling you this entire wall, 78 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:08,080 this is what, I don't know, 15 feet is all sound treatment. So what I did was like, look, 79 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:12,400 see this, this is this is just fabric. So you can see it kind of like rippling as I touch it. 80 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,280 It's like a big, it's a false wall. And every so often there are studs. Let's see if I can find one 81 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:24,480 right here. Here's one. Actually, this there happens to be a car, a millimeter wave presence 82 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,040 detector here. So that lights turn on automatically in theory, when I walk in certain zones. But 83 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,120 anyway, there's the studs periodically, and you can see I wall mounted the TV onto the studs. 84 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:39,280 But in between the studs, there's a bunch of rock wall insulation floor to ceiling. And so that's 85 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:45,280 great to catch the reflections, especially a lot of people don't put a lot of people forget to put 86 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,160 treatment behind their speakers. But you know, the driver moves like this, like 50% of the energy 87 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,720 goes backwards. And then so it's either going to get colored by that reflection right away. 88 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:01,200 Or you can absorb some of it. And you can actually predict which frequency is going to get affected 89 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,400 based on the distance here. And it might just completely make a trough. But probably the most 90 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:12,080 important treatment is in these corners, they look like diagonal walls now, but they actually 91 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:19,280 were just corners here and over there. Sorry, I got it. See this right here. This is like diagonal 92 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:26,720 to me. I built this. So there's a stud here and here running this way, and down there. 93 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,760 And in between, and there's just a big stack of insulation that's cut into a triangle to fill 94 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,880 that corner. And the deepest point of the triangle is over 12 inches. And so that's going to absorb 95 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,120 the lowest frequencies of any of the treatment I have in here. These are called super chunk 96 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,720 base traps that you can DIY easily. I have one here. And in that corner over there, David helped me 97 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:52,080 a couple of times. The velvet was hell. Oh, the star's thing was hell too. Like the frame, 98 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:58,240 it's so big and so light and flimsy. I had six people all going like this to put it up. And 99 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,120 a lot of the stuff I did completely by myself, like putting the ceiling speakers in with just 100 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,120 whenever you don't have the right tools, man, I was standing on this couch trying to hold the 101 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,440 speaker in the ceiling, got to grab something at my foot. So you're just like trying to lift it 102 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:17,920 with your foot like sweating. Oh, it was hell. Oh, it's routing the cables too. I have this bulkhead 103 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:24,000 you can see right here. There's this bulkhead that goes through. And so the networking originates in 104 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,240 this other room over here. And I was able to go through my utility closet, access that bulkhead, 105 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:35,120 and run all my like subwoofer speaker wire, all the speaker wire for the ceiling and these 106 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:40,720 surrounds, they all route through that bulkhead on the networking. And then they come down my 107 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:47,120 false wall and emerge out there. It is an outlet. We'll get a shot of. Just to hide all the cables, 108 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:52,720 but like fishing it through this bulkhead was insane. Luckily, the velvet, I could make a 109 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,360 bunch of holes in the ceiling and just put the velvet on top. So if I ever move or sell this 110 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:03,680 house, man, I can have to do so much drywalling. I devalued this place. I devalued it so much. 111 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:08,400 Or you value it if you leave it all. Yeah, if there's the correct buyer, they'll love it. 112 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,040 It's a pain in the ass. Like I literally will vacuum my ceiling and walls. Like it's just, 113 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,720 I'm like a psychopath in here. It's, or I have like a lint roller thing that I'll just be like, 114 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:25,520 it's not worth it. A couple little frills. This, there's a register here. It had just a 115 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,160 normal white register. I don't even know where I got this kind of fancy looking one, but I sprayed 116 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,040 it with some matte black paint. I think that looks pretty cool. Another thing I have is, 117 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,280 I think I need more curtains because it's just annoying that it's not black, black, black. I need 118 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,680 like another layer like they do in hotel rooms. But what I do have is these little magnetic things 119 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,600 that actually Justin from the office made for me. And they are just these little 120 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,400 holders and I put one on each curtain and they have magnets. So they just hold the curtains 121 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,440 together instead of there being little gap underneath the stars. There's actually a bunch 122 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,560 of stuff hidden back there. There used to be a light fixture up there that I removed and I 123 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:04,480 turned into a power outlet. Did not use an electrician. You're not allowed to do this. 124 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,280 Don't do it, but it's easy. So easy. And I turned into an outlet and into the outlet I plugged 125 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,840 my fiber optic generator and also there's a Google home up there. And I just talked to it. 126 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:20,320 I tell it to play music and you can't even see the thing. There's also an ESP32 and a power supply 127 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:25,520 and some cove lighting. And I didn't even bother turning it on because it sucks. I never use it. 128 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:30,240 It was so much work. This whole thing was meant to float and there's ambient light. 129 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,480 There's meant to be like a glowing cove light right here, but it's just not bright enough. 130 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,240 And so I just, I just never use it. These things right here, these are called curtain holdbacks 131 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,600 and they hold your curtains back. And I just think it's cool. It's black and it's got this cool shape 132 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:52,240 and it adds to this kind of dark academia, Victorian aesthetic in here. You saw my wooden desk. 133 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,320 Anyways, if you don't know what to Google, holdbacks. Have you ever bumped into this 134 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,480 back? I feel like I'd bump into this all the time. No, the thing that you bump into is like 135 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,520 that speaker. It's right in the walkway, right? Yeah, it was, it was, we're trying to get B-roll 136 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:11,520 shaking a lot. I was like, oh my goodness. Yeah. That's pretty, oh, I guess I should say that I, 137 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:18,160 one other thing, you can put this earlier in the video, but with this fireplace that's in here, 138 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:22,480 this whole thing used to be like gold and gray and stuff. I just took it all out 139 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,520 and just spray bombed it all black. Wow. And it's actually a heat-resistant spray, so I could 140 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,520 still turn it on. Yes, that's my home theater tour. I think it's way better than Linus's, 141 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,800 even though his is kind of nicer. I am envious of his carpet, but he has no sound treatment 142 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:42,800 because he's a lazy butt. Please share your home theater stories in the comments and let us know 143 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,400 if you like this kind of, this kind of content. Thanks so much. And thanks to David for helping 144 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:52,240 me and Rob from AVRant. It was a lot of help too. Bye. Oh, I got.