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CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject:

CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject:

WTS · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1276 Location: Calgary

Hi Craig,

You're right, thanks. Working and reading on a Monday morning(at work) not a good combination, damn work always get in the way of play. Now if I can adapt some form of this setup into my existing frame/screen this will be the cat's a$$, thanks. That is assuming they will ship to Canada, I never checked.

CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:50 pm Post subject:

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

WTS · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1276 Location: Calgary

Hi Craig,

I'll se if there is a Canadian dealer first. My screen is only 7' wide so it should be okay with the 1.25" alum tubes. Thanks.

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:52 am Post subject:

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Wow, I was joking. I guess Irule is doing well.

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

DB Cooper · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject:

Yeah, thats them Cool

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CIR Engineering · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:08 pm Post subject:

Been four years since the last post so I thought I would give it a bump so new folks and those who haven't been around for a while can see.

The masking system still works perfectly. It makes a bit of a metal on metal sound when operating now so I think one of my felt pads may have worn through. One of these days I will fix it, but it hasn't become bothersome enough to motivate me yet.

Happy building!

craigr

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:11 pm Post subject:

Wow, so much has changed since you posted this and I wrote my posts.

Have you thought about a way to add vertical masking? The reason I ask is I'm thinking about a giant (like 12-feet wide) 16:9 screen in my next room... I'd run it full-width for scope (but masked) most of the time. I'd run it masked on all four sides for HDTV and comedies and such, and then open it all the way up for IMAX-type films and dual-AR movies. But, I'd need four-way masking to do it right. I'm thinking just another roller across the top, directly in front of the horizontal masking roller, with two side panels that roll down. No biggie.

The thing that has me concerned is they'll probably be sitting *right* in front of the speakers, so I need a material that would be pretty audio-transparent, or I'd mess up the audio for probably about a third of what I watch. That means it would need to be something like speaker grille material... But, that material is super-springy, won't lay flat, and probably won't absorb light very well, either. Any ideas?

Thanks, Craig!

Cheers,
SC

CIR Engineering · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:04 pm Post subject:

That's a tough one Steve... The speakers make it really difficult.

Do you have the system built enough to post photos?

craigr

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:15 pm Post subject:

Nope, it's all drawings right now. Trying to get everything thought out, and of course I don't want to paint myself into some corner that I'll be unhappy with later.

Anyway, 15'6" wide room, 11-12-foot wide screen, and probably a 10-foot viewing distance (or thereabouts) to the main position. That puts the main speakers right out at the edges of the screen. They're going to be pretty large mains, so moving them outside the boundary of the screen means they're too far out, too close the walls, or the screen has to get a lot smaller.

Just thinking out loud at this point.

SC

CIR Engineering · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:19 pm Post subject:

The only thing that pops into my head is an acoustically transparent screen and then putting the speakers closer together behind it.

You must be jonesing after not having a theater setup for so long!

craigr

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