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Welcome to my dedicated blog. My name is Mark and I’m a self-confessed tech addict, with a particularly huge passion for Audio/Visual. I am a qualified electronics engineer, and work in the A/V industry (in a retail capacity – it’s more fun selling it than making it!). I am always striving for perfection, relative to budget mind you, and it is this hope and aim that helped me decide to create a blog to follow my tech evolution over the next few years. I am about to undertake a Theatre Room renovation at home, which will be the ultimate test of whether this blog is a good idea or not. I will document and photograph as much as I can and by all means ask questions or provide feedback – it will all be appreciated.

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  michael wrote @ February 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am

Mark,
just found your blogg, excellent work.
I am in the processs of building a new house with a dedicated HT room and was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions
1. Was wondering if you looked at or install any acoustic suppression ie sound check board, double skin, green glue etc. to stop noise transfer to adjoining rooms
2. how much improvement did the acoustic panels make to the sound in the room
3. what cables did you run to the projector Component and HDMI? if so what lenght HDMI. I’m currently looking at a 10m run what is proving problematic to decide which one to purchase
4. I see on DTV that you organised a group buy for a DVDO edge, I know I missed that on but any plans for another one in the future and if so what sort of price?

thanks

Michael
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  Neale wrote @ February 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your response back in early Jan. Have you had a chance to compare audio quality of the 3800 and Z7?

Neale

  Mark wrote @ February 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Hi Neale,
Yes I have. My first comparison was between the 3800 and 3900, and I was expecting no difference in sound quality (as I had found no difference 12 months ago between the 2700 and 3800) but surprisingly the 3900 had a more open, effortless sound. I then did a comparison between the 3900 and Z7 when it finally became available and the difference was very subtle, but still an improvement over the 3900. I can’t say for sure that the Z7 is $1200 better than the Z7, as other features would need to be taken into consideration to make this decision, but in sheer sonic terms the 3900 would be the better buy. And when you consider that as of 1 March, the 3900 will retail for $2,999 and the Z7 for $4,499, this maybe an easier decision for some!
Hope this helps.

  Garry Benge wrote @ March 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 am

Mark
Just bought a v3900, not being a audiophile having trouble getting all components to work and the speaker set up. Do you do house calls, I am in Perth.

  Mark wrote @ March 12th, 2009 at 10:26 am

HI Gary,
Apologies for the delay in replying, and you probably have somebody already but my recommendation here in PERTH would be Graham Mills/GM Electronics (0418949469).
Regards

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