Recent content by MTguy

Heck ya, sign me up! Those look good and solid.

Thought I'd drop a quick update here. I got my cabinets in and my bench tops done. I've added some organizational stuff as well. Pictures or there's no proof.... I want to build a wall where the railing is and then all the way up to the ceiling for about the last 30 inches or so. Seems like...

Made some progress on the garage. I have it taped, textured, painted and added a stripe. The stripes didn't turn out great. I did do a "seal" coat of the base color but it still had some runs. I'll have to go and fix them the best I can. The plan for cabinets is to use the unfinished wood...

Looking good. I am planning on using some of the galvanized pipe in my project here as well.

No kids for me. It is over 8' to the bottom of it, so that helps quite a bit. My older (wiser?) brother also said to skip the doors on the storage. We did brainstorm an idea with flip up lids that could lock in place that might work too. The Mrs. sure hates clutter so hiding might make her...

Progress pics of the sheetrock. Don't mind the mess.... I'm still moving a year after I officially moved in.

Quick update. My brother and nephews were in town over Easter weekend so I got a little bit of work done on the garage. Got almost half the sheetrock up and the rapidair system roughed in. My nephews did almost all of the insulation themselves, which saved me quite a bit of time. I can't...

It's on sale again at $399.61 after their rebate. I'm tempted. Not quite ready to install it yet, but should be soon enough.

A little progress over the weekend. I don't know how people with kids do it. We've been babysitting all week and I don't think I've gotten anything done. I finished wiring everything and it is working fine. I also discovered that I am going to have to use 3 elbows in my rapidair system to...

Decided on some 8" in wall speakers from Monoprice and got them ordered when they actually have a sale. I went with these 8" ones.http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10837&cs_id=1083703&p_id=4101&seq=1&format=2 I guess I'll sell my 5.25" ceiling ones locally. I'm going to put them...

Thanks again guys. Right now the plan is to order some 8" speakers, mount them centrally in the garage walls, and use the wall control for power by itself. I'm also going to run wire for 2 more pairs of speakers to the attic for a future "shop stereo" if I decide I need it. K.I.S.S. is...

Wow, you guys know your stuff. Would tapping the line on the speaker side of the amp/wall control with speaker to line (rca) adapters ->then using a 120v amp to power multiple speakers-> allow me to control everything from the wall unit? Even if i can find 4 or 16 ohm speakers I worry that 20...

Thanks guys. The system is not fully up and running yet even though it is 95% done for the rest of the house (need to finish the audio/media closet) so I can't test it just yet. The sound travels over cat5 so I don't know if I can split that to RCA's. Right now, I'm leaning toward going with...

Thanks. I never even considered that difference in voltage for the input. I was considering using speaker to line converters originally if I couldn't find an amp that would work. I was already thinking of getting bigger speakers anyways. They generally sound better to me. I will end up...

Greetings all! I have a legrand OnQ Lyriq whole home audio system that I wired a keypad to in my garage. Basically, the wall keypad is a 20w/channel amplifier for sources that I can remotely control. The plan was to use that to power 2x 5.25" in ceiling monoprice speakers (wire is already ran...