270 Gallon SPS tank for JBNY
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Lunchbucket
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That is your fricking office?? How do you get any work done w/ all those movies and the Wi??
Amazing furniture. Who has the taste you or the wife?
Lunchbucket
Amazing furniture. Who has the taste you or the wife?
Lunchbucket
JB NY
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LOL It not a "I work at home office". It's a doing the bills, doing some work, and having some fun area. There is a big desk on the other side of the room for getting work done. This was one of the rooms I renovated over the summer. It used to be a big old mess, with books stacked up all over the place and av equipment stacked up on top of each other. I wanted to make it a room that could double as another living room and still be able to get work done when needed.
The taste is mine, it was the tester room my wife let me do 100% on my own. She ended up really liking it a lot. After this room I got the go ahead to use this style in more areas of the house.
The taste is mine, it was the tester room my wife let me do 100% on my own. She ended up really liking it a lot. After this room I got the go ahead to use this style in more areas of the house.
Lunchbucket
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You can tell how much I play games or that I even own a system.
Joe - very cool man. I really like the feel of the room. I think I'd get a lot of sitting on my butt done in that room
Lunchbucket
JB NY
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Yeah there is a lot of hanging out in that room. I've also been into audio equipment for a long time. So that room got most of the upgrades from the living room. Yeah there a 360 and an original xbox that's has a modchip so it also plays videos from a NAS server that I transferred all my movies onto a few years ago. I've got a few hundred movies at the click of the remote now. 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9416753#post9416753 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JB NY
Yeah there is a lot of hanging out in that room. I've also been into audio equipment for a long time. So that room got most of the upgrades from the living room. Yeah there a 360 and an original xbox that's has a modchip so it also plays videos from a NAS server that I transferred all my movies onto a few years ago. I've got a few hundred movies at the click of the remote now.
Are you able to get those movies in 720P?
cwegescheide
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Yeah I also like your taste in furniture Joe. Where did you get your stuff? I especially like your glass shelves you have that are going to be beside your tank. Finding nice quality unique furniture is not an easy venture. Come on give up your source!
Chris
JB NY
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NAS (Network-attached storage). Think of it as a hard drive that you access on a network. The same thing a having a PC with a lareg drive that you share out. But this PC is mich smaller, only uses a little electricty (so you can keep it on all the time) and it's only purpose it to serve up data. Some are just a basic hard drive that you can access others are redundant with many disks in it so if one fails you don't loose all your data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
JazzMan It can upconvert to 720p fine. Not that great at playing HD encoded movies. It seems to play most 720P HD, not so good with 1080i/p. I use XBMC on my modded xbox. There is a really good thread over at AVSforums on it if you wan to take a look. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=635294
cwegescheide
You're right. It's really, really hard to find places that sell nice quality stuff. most of the items we spent a lot of time driving all over the place to visit stores just trying to find one or two pieces.
I do have someone I now know. They are in queens. Send me a PM if you want his info.
easttn
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Joe,
You do Audiogon? I've had excellent success there; picked up a pair of Paradigm Studio 100s, a single Studio CC-570 for center, and a pair of ADP-470 as rear surround speakers for less than 2K from an MLB assistant to the assistant coach.
Your a brave boy associating the tank and high end A/V in the same area.
Love it so far. Thanks again for your original 180 plan, and your input for my reactor.
Charles
You do Audiogon? I've had excellent success there; picked up a pair of Paradigm Studio 100s, a single Studio CC-570 for center, and a pair of ADP-470 as rear surround speakers for less than 2K from an MLB assistant to the assistant coach.
Your a brave boy associating the tank and high end A/V in the same area.
Love it so far. Thanks again for your original 180 plan, and your input for my reactor.
Charles
JB NY
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Hey Charles,
Always happy to help you.
Yeah I use audiogon. I bought my Von Schweikert speakers that way. I was able to get them so much cheaper through that site.
I've been into AV for so long, so it not as expensive as it once was. Over the years I've accumulated three full boxes (those large file plastic boxes you get at staples) filled with different speaker and interconnect cables. I used to have the bug real bad, but I'm much better now. :lol:
Paradigms are sweet speakers, they are always on my list of recommended speakers when people ask me what to buy.
Always happy to help you.
Yeah I use audiogon. I bought my Von Schweikert speakers that way. I was able to get them so much cheaper through that site.
I've been into AV for so long, so it not as expensive as it once was. Over the years I've accumulated three full boxes (those large file plastic boxes you get at staples) filled with different speaker and interconnect cables. I used to have the bug real bad, but I'm much better now. :lol:
Paradigms are sweet speakers, they are always on my list of recommended speakers when people ask me what to buy.
onehundred20
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awsome looking tank, AO looks like he does a good job.
JB NY
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Thanks, the glass door lifts up to reveal more shelving behind it, Just really to break up the look. Funny thing is there are like 4 different ways they have to open those doors. It can slide up, slide down, if you add two of them they have them break apart when they open. Pretty amazing what they let you pick from.
JB NY
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crab0000 was asking about the sides of the plywood. I was playing with using veneer on the side the other day. I think it looks pretty good.
Here is a scrap piece before putting the edge banding on.
And after with the wood veneer on (the flash kept reflecting off the edge so it a little brighter in the picture). I think it came out really nice. It looks close in color and texture to the sides, after it is stained it should look purfect.
So that is how I am going to do the sides of the exposed plywood.
Here is a scrap piece before putting the edge banding on.
And after with the wood veneer on (the flash kept reflecting off the edge so it a little brighter in the picture). I think it came out really nice. It looks close in color and texture to the sides, after it is stained it should look purfect.
So that is how I am going to do the sides of the exposed plywood.
Michael Mota
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That looks good. Simple and effective, I like it!
JB NY
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OK some more pictures of the stand build, since that's all I have right now.
The last two nights, after work, I cut down two sheets of 3/4 plywood and glued them together to make the base for the tank to rest on.
First I had to cut down the plywood sheets. I used a guide system that works with a circular saw. It works very well. Much, much easier than trying to use the table saw to maneuver and break down a 70lb full sheet of plywood.
First you take the guide and put it over the area you want to cut off. The white line is plastic, and the edge of it is exactly where the blade will cut, so all you have to do is snap a line and drop the guide on top of it.
Then you tighten some clamps, that sit underneath the guide, to the board.
There is a plate that you attach to the bottom of the saw, the saw with the plate then rides on a rail on top of the guide. Then all you do is push the saw down the guide.
That's it. Now you have a nice straight line.
Do this a few more times and the whole sheet if broken down very easily.
After the two sheets were all cut up, I cut an opening for the bulkheads. I just cut out the dimensions of the overflow box.
Next was to glue and screw the two sheets together. The one piece was bowed more than I thought when I bought it, so it took a bunch of clamps to get everything just right. I made sure my wife saw that I used every clamp that I owned, just to justify all the clamps I bought last year!!
I let the everything sit overnight. I will take off the clamps and finish the rest tonight.
The last two nights, after work, I cut down two sheets of 3/4 plywood and glued them together to make the base for the tank to rest on.
First I had to cut down the plywood sheets. I used a guide system that works with a circular saw. It works very well. Much, much easier than trying to use the table saw to maneuver and break down a 70lb full sheet of plywood.
First you take the guide and put it over the area you want to cut off. The white line is plastic, and the edge of it is exactly where the blade will cut, so all you have to do is snap a line and drop the guide on top of it.
Then you tighten some clamps, that sit underneath the guide, to the board.
There is a plate that you attach to the bottom of the saw, the saw with the plate then rides on a rail on top of the guide. Then all you do is push the saw down the guide.
That's it. Now you have a nice straight line.
Do this a few more times and the whole sheet if broken down very easily.
After the two sheets were all cut up, I cut an opening for the bulkheads. I just cut out the dimensions of the overflow box.
Next was to glue and screw the two sheets together. The one piece was bowed more than I thought when I bought it, so it took a bunch of clamps to get everything just right. I made sure my wife saw that I used every clamp that I owned, just to justify all the clamps I bought last year!!
I let the everything sit overnight. I will take off the clamps and finish the rest tonight.
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