I Hope We Don't Get a Noise Complaint... - Our Epic Employee Lounge Sound System
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,749 words · ~13 min read
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okay so here's the thing watching movies on the bfgd is pretty cool it's HDR 1000
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it can run at any refresh rate so no matter what frame rate your content's
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running at it's perfect with no judder or anything like that but it's got a
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fundamental flaw it's only available
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in a mere 65 diagonal inches
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so at risk of becoming you know that guy
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today's video is going to be about this
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upgrade we are going to be getting ah
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the best of all worlds by upgrading to a
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120 inch projector screen
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and at the same time we're going to be installing a sound system you guys got
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this cool that's great with this sub
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i sincerely hope we don't end up with
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any noise complaints speaking of me sitting here with uh you
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not in my face okay so riley i don't know how you got roped into this but no
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either here's the plan for today basically it's twofold
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we're not actually ditching the tv we still need that 4k
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hertz gaming goodness yep but we're going to take this projector screen
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and put it in front of the tv because
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that's how projectors work so if you want to watch no no no the projector
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goes way over here and it fires at it but if you want to watch a movie you use
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the projector and if you want to play a game
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the projector
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yeah and then get some we're doing a 5.1.2
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yeah is that right yeah klipsch dolby atmos blah blah blah sound setup this i
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can't believe this thing it looks like a weapon
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it's the r115s
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which means sw for subwoofer 115 for 15 inch the more you know
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we won't even need a side table but if you put anything on it it's just gonna
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fall off from all the the sick wubs do we have to unbox this
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should we call lou or that's only if we have too much unboxing and we're feeling
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sick so i haven't had eclipse audio set up since my pro media ultra 5.1 it's a
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long story but they were given to me by a previous girlfriend and current
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girlfriend didn't like me hanging on to them
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now that's a speaker this bad boy will get you at least 55 watts
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this is ridiculous yeah and they fit perfectly how much is this setup they
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sent over i don't actually know i think the two bookshelf slash monitors
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are like 800 bucks just for those two wow this is a little bigger eh
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that's what you see one of the thingies so the cool thing about dolby atmos is
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that instead of the movie studio having someone go in and manually
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code like you know the helicopter moving from here to here and what the mix is
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between the left and the right and the rear channels and whatever
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else every object that makes sound is instead
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just given an exact position in 3d space
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and then your dolby atmos receiver which we already have from our last upgrade
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here is going to use however many speakers you have and wherever they are
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to best approximate the original intent of the movie producer so
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these are not as good as if we had more upper
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channels and more surround channels but
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this already seemed pretty over the top so we can't really fit anything behind
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yeah Linus Linus look
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these aren't that dissimilar from an actual like an actual weapon like you're
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you're comfy you know yeah yeah well you wouldn't use it like that that's for
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sure oh that was
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you've taken you've taken martial arts haven't you i had kind of imagined just like um like
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just like a rollable kind of like a like a vinyl blind
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you know off amazon 100 yeah um
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so then you reached out to east porter's audio and video and asked them for like
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a 700 still tab tension but like just a
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regular cheap screen i was like we don't need nothing crazy right
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and then they responded with this a 120 inch elune vision 4k reference studio
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tab tensioned crazy screen it's got these little metal
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tabs that run down the side and a big metal string i'm assuming and a weight
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on the bottom and it keeps the screen really flat and so in 10 years hopefully
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it still will be perfect how is a projector screen 4k
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oh 4k there's the big thing apparently it's just because the fibers are really
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fine as opposed to some projector screen so they won't show any grit at all it's
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got the finest fibers you've ever seen okay i've never seen fibers this time i
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haven't seen any kind of fibers danger wow
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must read what shape is that really that's a circle
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that's a circle but it's inside a square
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you should do a kids tech channel now that's a good idea let's see
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this bracket is called an l bracket like
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the letter l how many LMG employees does
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it take to mount a laser pointer
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two
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put it in wow that's going to be really big yeah
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and you want it bigger okay yep you're all over the place get get a hold
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of yourself go drunk you're home
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oh man they include drywall anchors
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please nobody nobody installed this with
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drywall anchors it's only like 30 pounds
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tell me a story riley tell me a story all about how my life got twisted upside
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down and i'd like to take a minute to tell you about it because it's a crazy
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story so take a seat i don't think that's how that goes
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okay now my eye hook is on the wrong way here
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wow it does not look straight at all really i mean we laser leveled it didn't
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we yeah well
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hey we don't have enough clearance hey
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uh yep that uh uh that camera or the the
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the wi-fi antenna camera it looks like a camera all right just so
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i'm just gonna take it off for now this is
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utter madness so the projector we're using is actually
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a rescue from uh a previous project where we mounted it to the front of my
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car that was really that was really weird anyway uh this is a more appropriate use for this thing this is
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vue sonic's kind of budget 4k projector because it's not really native 4k it
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uses pixel shift technology and we know that it's super bright it's 3 500 lumens
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so we're going to go ahead we're going to use this puppy and i put nacho fans in it oh yeah it
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was a little loud out of the box but check out this upgrade
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bam i found the only projector mount i could
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get that was long enough to fit underneath that light okay i'm gonna put
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the screen back down so we can at least kind of like sanity check the numbers
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before we start drilling so i guess flip it upside down uh first
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are you gonna hold it upside down i will did you flip it already oh nice
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so if we bro it's just can you go to the left a bit
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you're in an awkward position
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having to hold me up
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i was trying not to leave a mark on your
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shoulder
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brian would have done it like that but like
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wait how are you planning to screw this in exactly it goes through the two by
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four okay
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that's straight enough right oh sure yeah yep
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for the record i wanted to make it beefier than this
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saturation wire speaker wiring are you making another one of your little
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checklists yeah this one's on cardboard so i guess we should start with the first one projector HDMI i was thinking
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maybe we use one of those spare wires and like tape it to it and just pull
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that wire down yeah the question is how do we figure out which wire is which did
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ryan label them maybe he did oh yeah they're labeled wow what a champ oh boy
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oh boy sands the 12 feet that are in the wall oh boy uh can i have the tape
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oh not quite that wasn't a great throw do you think he uh
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stapled these to the wall you have got to be kidding me he wouldn't
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he did brian oh we we have no we have no way of doing
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this sir this is a super long
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HDMI so let's see if we're gonna have enough to go like maybe
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over and up or something why don't we start with figuring out exactly how long
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it needs to be yeah we would need to add so much to go
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over there we need like a second one of these cables okay here Jake if i can
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make this shot through that crossbeam then we don't have to move the ladder oh my god
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ah
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yeah it just explodes all in my face great plan
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what's up safety
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that would be very safe okay i made myself a better projectile
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this time
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no no i have an idea it's fine hold on and a three oh
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there's three did you do it
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sort of i need a stick a very expensive one
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hey 10 of 10. so while Jake's getting power for the projector screen sorted
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out i'm getting our universal projector mount attached to the bottom of the
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projector
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nom nom nom nom
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ah
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guess the label was correct
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so for our speaker runs we're using these little aftermarket plugs called
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banana plugs and there's no performance reason to do it it's more of just a
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convenience thing if you ever have to unplug and replug things
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all right that goes
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and on whoa ah
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all right wow that looks like crap oh yeah
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look it's not the perfect length of wire okay this is actually really looks like
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it needs to go up not that bad though
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okay so there that's up a few inches i am actually getting pretty close
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to being ready to call it good ah
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so is this basically like the plan uh no they're supposed to go down in the
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speaker stand oh all right well that is better i need to do the length first
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though so just leave that where it is okay
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so all that's left then is the sub the sub the webmaster 5000.
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twit
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so uh yeah we just need that rca cable over here then and power you tried the
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other line oh that worked
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it's definitely on now moved some air by my leg here
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the gain is at 11 by the way i love that it goes minimum to 11.
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okay so it's working
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feel like that scene for men it's working
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so what we're doing right now is we're it's not perfect but we're doing like a
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calibration the receiver is going to listen to the speaker positions and then
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adjust the delays this might be a little loud you have the
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remote wow
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that is so different holy
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holy base it's a little overpowering
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yeah maybe 11 wasn't the right choice yeah
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maybe 11 could be uh
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so we got the dolby access app loaded up we got atmos turned on so you can tell
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from the indicator up here we did have to make one small adjustment where we
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had to set our receiver to output audio only to the speakers not to the speakers
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and the tv um that's fine we got that sorted out so
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now overwatch hey let's watch that one we should check out uh
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check out some of these demos so what you guys are seeing right now is
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with filming lights still on with them off
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it's actually pretty darn impressive
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and shockingly we actually managed to get the position of the projector
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pretty much bang on
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we're gonna need some light though just so we can see what the crap we're doing
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i have no idea what it took for me to make this meeting happen so cinematic
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experience pretty damn good i am absolutely blown away by this
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projector actually yeah once we have it in a light controlled
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environment that is not bad this screen i think costs more than that projector
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but i mean the screen is a big part of what makes a projector sound good right
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i'm not gonna say like movie theater experience
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but like we're getting there we're definitely getting there we're close
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yeah we'll be uh we'll be going with that
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what is this are they trying to have a story in mortal kombat
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it's good man shut up it isn't not it is not
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how do i stop stop it
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you're so mean
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because we're trying to see if it's good and it actually how's your knee Jake i'm
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not feeling i'm cooking so many buttons and nothing was happening
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i mean obviously we're still gonna game on the bfgd whenever possible but really
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not bad so i guess that pretty much wraps up the
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movie watching experience upgrade we satisfied i'm pretty satisfied this
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is freaking awesome i'm like blown away the one thing i can
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think of that we need to do is bring the seats up a little bit and then
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we could probably be convinced to upgrade the projector at some point you
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know 8k you know whatever maybe if the opportunity i think the input delay on
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that came along but man this is freaking unreal i'm
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getting a little bit of dlp rainbow effect
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but it's certainly hardly noticed i've seen personally far from the worst i've
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now don't wait so thanks for watching guys and a
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massive shout out to klipsch for providing these speakers and um east
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porter's audio and video esporter's audio and video who hooked us up with
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the projector screen this is absolutely unreal we've already got people poking
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their heads in asking us is there going to be like a sign up so that like we can
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reserve the space for movie night or fight night or whatever so it's freaking
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