Wednesday, June 2, 2010

PARTY :O!!?!!!1

So I decided to have my first ever house party since I never had.. and in my fashion I have to do something funky! I'm making the living room a dance floor and was worrying about the cops showing up since the city I live in is pretty quiet. So I got to thinking and finally settled on getting some parabolic speakers to direct the sound downwards from the ceiling. Hopefully and it seems so far is that under the speakers it's REALLY loud but you come from under them and it sounds like a regular stereo at a normal volume.. step outside and I can't even hear them.
I decided on building them since they were too expensive to buy and who knows how powerful they would be.

So I went to a junkyard called APEX and found these:


Got some bolts and crap and a stud finder (cheap one so I drilled some holes that led to nothing :| ) and mounted them to the ceiling:


Then I went off to downtown not too far from the fashion district where they sell tons of audio stuff and picked up some Kenwood 6 1/2" three way speakers and had gotten some threaded nylon from APEX and got them up and mounted:

Figuring out how far the speaker from the dish really didn't take too long and since the nylon is threaded I just had to move the nut around on it to adjust the height.

From there I got them wired up to the home audio system and.. they hummed horribly.
So I went off to Radio Shack and bought a worthless ground loop isolator that took the hum out but also made it so even with the volume at max I could barely here anything :| . Bought a Xitel ground loop isolator off of Amazon and it fixed everything and they sound downright perfect now :D.


All in all think I spent about $200

but I couldn't just stop there! had to have some lights so I got a sound activated laser:

and a sound activated LED light that moves around :


Oh oh and some alcohol:


and I'm gonna drag my street fighter arcade game in the house and am getting some evil thing that sprays shots into peoples mouths :D