Thanks for the kind words guys. Here's a quick rundown of what went into this:

The mount was designed by me and Michael O'Kelly of OK Design. He is an ex-Disney imagineer and currently our cabinet maker but he works in other mediums too. I'm gonna say 90% of the coolness is him. 90% of the BS that led to the client thinking this was gonna be easy was me.

The concrete pillar is a support pillar in a high rise and is post-tensioned so no drilling deep.

We strapped the column with the two steel bands and some spacers to keep the two bands equidistant. This enabled us to be very secure with only some short screws to hold position during mounting.

The mount travels on four specialty wheels we ordered from Germany, super strong and durable but also very quiet, even against metal. They are angled in slightly to meet the circumference of the rail.

Those four wheels form a square that travels on the two steel rails to which is attached a Chief PAC400 rotation adapter. (This allows the TV to rotate from landscape to portrait.)

Just to make things fun, the window frames, which jut out a good 3-4" are within an inch at the top and bottom of the height of the TV to allow the TV to rotate far enough back to hide it. In other words, once fully rotated to hiding position the TV fits snuggly within the window recess.

The cables and power come up the back of the pillar in snakeskin. They are positioned so that when the TV is rotated the cable folds under its own weight. The noisiest thing in the whole assembly is the snakeskin movement.

All in all about $10K in install labor, parts, design.

Here's a down and dirty iphone vid, pre-tv install:

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Very cool Terry. The concept and execution is unique and seems very well engineered. Nice video too and the British accent just sells it !

Ordered a Marantz AV7701 and MA7055 for my personally system. Upgrading from a Denon avr-3806.

Formwork we spent the day finishing up retroing some wires for our first Sonnex job and getting the Totem 8" in-ceilings installed through out the house. 

you are going to notice a HUGE difference!

I can't wait :)

Oh, I had 4 deliveries come in today and the deliverers blocked my front door. moving all the boxes down to the last one and through my F$&(*#NG BACK OUT!!!

So pissed. 

Mike, Great looking job and nice photos.  Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the additional info... really nice work!

The video is well done too.  I've done a few videos to show clients the operation of TV & Art lifts, sliding racks and hidden bookcases but they're not very good: ?feature=mhee

I lack the charisma you have to get in the video and make it more interesting.

Thanks for the picture.  I think it was him, but may have just been a look alike.

Bumping into famous people happens all the time here.  My wife is good at spotting them, but I usually don't notice.  I've chatted up a few celebrities without even knowing who they are only to have my wife say "do yo know who you were just talking to?".

I've been slowly chipping away at a job that started in January.  Got two days this week between other jobs to get started with the outdoor audio. 

The equipment is racked in the Cabana which will eventually have a home theater and bar.  Amplification is Crown CDI for the 70v full range and QSC for the two 8ohm subs.  Also using DBX external crossover & EQ.

Speakers are all JBL Pro High Output models plus some Atlas omnidirectional garden speakers.  Total of 18 speakers.

Equipment starting to go into the rack.  Same rack will also contain home theater equipment

One of the subs is out in the open by a stone wall.  Contractor poured a small slab to keep itout of the dirt and level:


SB210 Sub in place:


The JBL Pro speakers have nice water tight connector assemblies:


Control 29AV-1 under Cabana eave.  Speakers will be painted to match.


Smaller Control 28T-60:


Even smaller Control 25 mounted on 2x2 steel post:


One of the Atlas speakers waiting to be buried in the landscape:


The pool has a waterfall feature with a bench seat under it.  Next step is to install a Control 25 at each end pointing under the waterfall.  I have the waterfall integrated with the RA2 lighting system and will switch the waterfall speakers on with the waterfall so they only play while its running.


All the product for the outdoor audio comes from our friend Fred @ Capitol Sales.  I've done some larger outdoor systems with more speakers, but this is by far the best sounding.  It ROCKS and the client loves it! 

Steam cleaned my carpets today, very upsetting, I thought my house was clean until I emptied the reservoir in the cleaner.

SBsmarthomes,

Everything looks great. We use jbl and crown for setups like this but I am curious to why You are still using DBX driveracks and Crossovers? Why not just use the processing in the crown amps instead of DBX?

The external crossover cost less than $200 and in my opinion it gives better control and more importantly it's easier to tune.

Using the amps DSP to set the crossover point would require going into the menu on both amps and adjusting the hi & low pass filters.  This is easy if you know where you want to crossover, but not something you can do fast enough to really compare the sound.

With the external crossover all you have to do is twist a knob to alter the crossover point between sub & full range so you can hear the change real time to dial things in.

Once I have the external crossover adjusted I'll still go in and set hi/low pass filters, output limiting, etc. using the DSP in the amps.  I'll set these parameters just outside of my external crossover settings to act as a fail-safe if someone starts twisting knobs.

This is one of the main reasons i quite using an external xover. I hated getting that call saying the system doesnt sound the same, and when i arrive i find that a curios husband was playing with knobs/buttons.

Now I just use the DSP and play with it to my hearts content, takes a bit longer but is less time in the long run not having to go back. I love the Lockout feature on the CDi's

If the external xovers came with knob caps i would probably go back to using them.

Those Crown CDi amps are pretty incredible to setup with the amount of DSP and control. Would be great if you could login from a phone or ipad and make changes while you are standing in the yard. Not sure if you already can or not.

Why not just use the xover's as a tool to find what sounds good and then remove and set in Amp...too much time?

I like these 1U covers.

[Link: middleatlantic.com]