// basement
2013 — 2017
Looking at framing and concrete, we knew the space was perfect. Almost exactly, the basement buildout ended up as envisioned in 2013. But what started as a man-cave, quickly turned into a space shared by the entire family. To enjoy music and home theatre. To compute, gather, and play.
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Dynaudio Focus 380s
JL Audio F112s
Naim 250-2 amp
Naim 282 preamp
Naim ND5 XS stream
Naim NAPSC-2 psu
Naim FlatCap-2 psu
Naim XP5XS psu
Naim shelving
Chord Co. interconnects -
Dynaudio S4-C80s x4
Dynaudio Focus 220c
Emotiva XPA-5 -
Wolf Cinema GRAYWOLF 4k SDC-12
Stewart FireHawk 1.3 LUXUS Model A
Marantz AV8801 preprocessor
Oppo BDP-103 -
UMIK-1 + Room EQ Wizard
Chord Co. HT bypass
Audience AR6
Vicoustics
Inerlam Design
EmberAV
// rack
AV rack originally sat in the same room as the theatre, adjacent to the pump closet. The unfinished portion of the basement was better suited for the expanding functions of the rack. Added 2x Norco 24-bay TrueNAS boxes with some second hand Dell servers for VMWare. IBM 24 bay tape drive backup. A variety of fibre and cat 6 networking. Cable access was also ideal: server rack → hot water heater closet → pump closet → front of room, projector, and upstairs. And the noise and heat would be isolated.
Moving the server rack was part of the installation of the custom desk at the back of the room. ricko 1.0 sat behind the desk, adjacent to the rack, and had convenient cable access from desk to rack. just as ricko 1.0 was ascending to his final form, his life was tragically cut short.
// special thanks
