Hi folks, I'm in the process of setting up my HT. Room treatment is coming along soon. Following are the stuff that I have

Projector: JVC RS-15
AVR: Denon 4311
Power Amp: Emotiva XPA-5
Source: HTPC w/ HD5670 + BD
Front: Klipsch RF-82
Center: Klipsch RC-62
Surround: Klipsch RS-62
Rear Surround: Klipsch RS-62
Subwoofer: SVS PB-13 Ultra
Screen: DIY MDF / N7 or N8 screen (in the process of making)
Speaker Cable: Monoprice 12AWG Cable
HDMI Cable: Monoprice Silver Plated Cables
Analog Interconnect: Belden 1694A + Canare RCAP
Remote: Harmony One

My Headphone Rig:

DAC: Lavry DA-11
Source: Squeezebox Touch
Phones: HD600, ER4P w/ ACS custom full cochlea mold, a bunch of KSC75

Soon to have Hifi addition:
Speaker: Harbeth SHL5
Amp: Sugden A21SE

42U 1000mm Rack, came assembled, so big that I had to dismantle the whole thing, bring it down, and reassemble the rack.




This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 26 2011, 11:11 PM

The SBT + Dac setup delivers what I'd call the best bang for the buck digital setup. Personally, after hearing a ton of "digital" setup, including audio aero capitole reference and many highly acclaimed and fairly expensive setup (if not beyond many people's reach), I'd decided to stop my digital venture at this stage. The next logical upgrade step which would yield significant improvements in SQ would be stepping into the LP world A Nottingham TT is what I've been eying for awhile

Yup, lugged all my equipments back home in a 4cbm crate

You would be surprised by how difficult it is to find a server rack over 37U in KL without knowing where to get them lol. All the stores in Jalan Pasar are selling 37U rack for over 1.6k and I was like...holy mother WTF....

I'd just recently acquired this rack and there are a few vendors (more like distributors) who carry full fledge rack equipments in Msia. I got my rack from Elegant Biz Sdn. Bhd. The racks are very very well priced and very high in quality.

Ryan Ting
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Email : ryan@elegantbiz.com/ryanting2000@yahoo.com/ryan@elegant.com.my

It would be nice if you mentioned Mr. Phang sent you but it's no necessary as I don't get any discount and neither would you by mentioning my name

I'll take some picture of my populated rack, it's almost done

RM10k for a TT setup is average tbh

Anyway, went out early in the morning to bring these home:

One is not enough, so I bought two. (one is for my cousin)

Spent the rest of the day to add on some parts to my rack and many more hours in cable management + building those interconnects:

Took with a pretty old PnS. Wife took my camera out....


Top to bottom:
1) Dlink 24 port gigabit switch
2) My custom 2U router/gateway/firewall/webserver
3) 2U APC UPS
4) Place to store recent BD, remote, and etc. Was thinking of getting a 4U drawer but for $300+....I'd pass
5) Silverstone LC20M HTPC full loaded (BD player, hotswap bay, card reader, intel pro nic, etc)
6) Denon 4311
7) Emotiva XPA5
8) My Norco 4020 unRaid server (diy), capable of housing 20 hot swap hdd and 2 more drives internally. Powered by Supermicro server board and raid cards. Afaik, none of the parts are available to purchase in Msia without paying a ton of premium anyway
*) Empty space in: 2U cantilever tray came defective, was going to toss my xbox there with lifesize kinect gaming..yummy. Additional space for CCTV, another console, 1 more gigabit switch in the future, and maybe another 2U UPS.


Top to bottom:
1) Acer h340 WHS - specifically used to download stuff, and to serve music. My squeeze server or whatever it is called is also in here.
2) Tplink 1043 wifi N router, used as an AP, root WDS (external antenna on top of the rack)
3) Linksys wrt54g - bought so many of them I now use them as dedicated 54G router, again this is used as an AP, root, WDS.

On the table is the RS15. A peerless universal mount is mounted onto it. Deciding on screen size, thinking of going 140" 16:9 which translates to 120+" 2.35:1

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 28 2011, 02:22 AM

I have pictures of the internal on my facebook. I will extract them out and explain the stuff required. Unfortunately I'm in the hurry to head out to check out some building materials. At the mean time for those who are interested, you can google:

lime-technology and start doing some reading. In a nutshell, the unRaid uses ONE parity drive to protect the whole array, almost like a raid 4/5.

This casing originally came with super high static pressure and cfm delta screamers that we once loved so much back in the old prescott days. I swapped everything out the AC TC3 fans and that killed 80% of the noise. You'd hardly hear the noise of the server once the room AC is on. Norco now sells replacement fan bracket that takes in 3 x 120mm fans, although the exhaust is still limited to two 80mm fans. Anyway talk later

- The unRaid system uses one parity drive to protect the whole array.
- The parity drive only need to be as big as the biggest data drive you have
- Unraid allows using of ANY hdd combination. Unlike any RAID setup, you can mix and match, and toss any old hdd into the array.
- One usb stick is needed to store the OS
- Free OS allows 2 data drive, 1 cache drive, and 1 parity drive. Paid license like the one I got support over 20 drives
- If the parity drive fails, all you need to do is replace the parity drive and rebuild parity
- If one data drive fails, the array will fail to run and it will indicate which drive failed in the management console. Replace the drive and the array will rebuild the data
- If 2 data drive fail, you lose both the data drive
- If one data drive fails and the parity drive fail as well, you lose the all data in the failed hdd.
- The OS allows user based sharing and uses SAMBA. I'd mine set to show certain folders: Movies, TV Series, and etc as read only. No username is needed to access these drives. You can specifically hide certain drives/folders. It's SAMBA so you can pretty much do anything if you have knowledge in Linux.
- Write speed is capped at 25MB/s due to the parity drive. With the parity drive disabled you can write at the hdd's max speed. Read speed is not affected by the parity drive.
- A cache disk can be used to aid transfer speed. You can toss the files you wanted to transfer into the cache disk. Unraid will then move the data in the cache disk at a predertemined schedule set by you. However, the cache disk is just a regular drive so if that drive fails before the data is copied over the the array you will lose the data.
- A high current single rail PSU is required if you plan to power a ton of hdd
- Hdds are spun down at a predetermined time to save power. Mine is set to 5mins
- You can put unraid to sleep and use magic packet to wake the system up if required
- Unraid doesn't need much resources or power unless you plan to run a ton of addons. A low power Celeron 420/430 is the best processor to use (used to use one but I replaced it with my old e8400)
- unRaid can utilize APC powerchute to shut down the Pc. My unraid is connected to my APC UPS which has a Network Management Card add on whereby I could have the UPS trigger all PCs connected to the network and the UPS to shut off at the same time.

My unRaid: (all pictures taken when I was still in Canada)








Everything bought from Newegg and NCIX. The server actualls has 16gb of rams lol. I decided to fully load up the whole thing so I know there is no room for me to upgrade in the future. It would be used as-is for many many years to come.

There are many different solutions but I decided to go with this route. There is a specific thread on AVSforum about unRaid. You can use any old pc to build the system. However, if you know where to get rack mount casing in msia, please inform me as I'm looking to get another 2U casing to build a CCTV server

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 28 2011, 05:57 PM

I think I will create a work log later. I need to hack up some walls in the current room. I am allocating about 4ft from the back wall to hide the speakers and sub, although I wont be using perforated screen, I don't want the speaker's reflection to interfere with my viewing experience. I will be using 2'x4'x2" panels filled with 2'x4' 100lb density rock wool. As well as a superchuck basstrap on every corner. Just came back from Sg. Buloh after checking out on some materials.

My experience has been that over 37U is a little harder to find without approaching the right source. I actually find rack mounted casing even harder to source.

Wiring of the rack is as follow:

- Unraid, HTPC, Switch, Gateway -> Rackmount APC
- Rackmount APC -> APC Surge protector
- All other equipments -> Rack PDU
- PDU, APC -> APC Surge protector
- APC surge protector -> wall

I will be adding a cheapo 550VA APC battery (RM165) to power the projector in case of black out. I don't turn every single electronics on at the same time, but turning on the receiver which in turns automatically triggers the amp to turn on hasn't caused switch to flip yet.

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 28 2011, 10:55 PM

Mock-up. Trying to see what's the maximum screen size i can obtain. I hacked some walls today and almost destroyed a beam lol.



I'd either be building a black box to surround the screen with all the speakers hidden, or have the screen built in front of the speakers while not obstructing them. I don't want to use perforated screen. I powered them up today and the dynamic range is more than enough for my room. Klipsch is freaking awesome

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 30 2011, 01:53 AM

I think about 12-13 ft first row and 15-17ft back row. Going to be very busy these few weeks, lots of wall to hack.

Oh I have a pair of old dipole klipsh surround, it's not getting any use. Should I bother using it as front height? I have extra zone on the receiver that I can use to do so but I'm pretty sure the timbre would be a little messed up (if detectable)

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: May 30 2011, 12:36 PM

Maybe I can remove the driver and disable one side of the speaker. I don't need more surrounds. I have 2 pairs of RS-62.

The room is not very big, I think 13' x 20+' maybe a tad wider. After treatment I'd lose quite a bit of length. I need to pull up google sketch to get the exact measurement. My max screen size would be around 134" at 16:9

Man it's taking me forever to complete my rack. I got most of my parts today but somehow the seller gave me 3 pieces of blank panel of different metal gauge. I'm looking forward to get the front wired and finish up the rear wiring.