That's correct. For a home setup, there are three possible ceiling rows (front ceiling, middle (aka "voice of God" speakers!), rear ceiling).
If you know you'll only ever do 2, voice of God probably makes the most sense.
But I strongly suspected I'd quickly want 4 up there, so I installed the first two as front ceiling. Then after hearing them in the whole system, almost immediately started making plans for the two rear ceilings.
Def worth a post to walk through the DIY ceiling installation! Now that I know how to mix drywall mud and do real patches (i.e. more than just spackle), it's a lot less scary to cut holes in my house!
https://void.cat/d/WDa55NPjnyzW7G4V94AhJ5.webp
Awesome! Will do!
Some of this stuff -- especially the Audyssey calibration -- has taken so long to get right that I definitely need to share my process.
Strategizing about speaker layouts has been a fun journey, too.
In the last year or so my progression was:
5.1
5.1.2 (biggest win!)
5.1.4 (worth it!)
7.1.4 (meh, but why not)
Ladies and gents, we’ve got work to do. Bitcoin Bootcamp begins this Saturday @ 2pm, where I’ll be introducing #Proxmox as a tool to manage your virtual infrastructure better.
Your node is probably shit. Let’s talk about it.
https://www.meetup.com/chibitdevs/events/299277835/
Prompt credit to nostr:npub1z4m7gkva6yxgvdyclc7zp0vz4ta0s2d9jh8g83w03tp5vdf3kzdsxana6p 
Your Raspi bitcoin node ngmi.
Learn to build better.
My long-form nip23 audiophile / videophile nerd review of "The Matrix" on 4k UHD blu-ray.
Trying to add more non-bitcoin content* to nostr!
https://habla.news/u/KeithMukai@nostr.seedsigner.com/1708296788609
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*(but, yes, let's remember that I'm a big nerd so my non-bitcoin interests are still incredibly nerdy)
Yeah, I kind of want them isolated to function more like a blog (totally fair if someone follows me for bitcoin-related stuff and dgaf about A/V reviews) but as you said, I'd like to give those long-form posts the broader exposure / discoverability, too.
I noticed that habla has both an `/a/naddr1` url and what looks more like a permalink `/u/@mynip05/content_id` format. Any appreciable difference?
That should just be a calibration / receiver issue. If you have a center channel, it probably isn't set loud enough relative to the other speakers. OR if you have surround channels, if they're set too loud, they'll drown out the dialog. Same for an overcranked sub (most people's subwoofer setups are totally atrocious; if they get absurd thump thump, they're happy).
Different receiver processing modes will also be more or less successful. I found that the DTS Neural:X mode muddied the dialog while Dolby "DSur" was much cleaner. If you have a two-channel system (only right/left speakers), how the receiver downmixes to stereo can affect how the dialog is presented.
My ears aren't great at deciphering speech (I can never understand anything anyone says in a loud bar), but calibrated speaker levels are vital (lots of receivers have things like Audyssey calibration built-in where you place a microphone at the listening position while it chirps out test tones). On top of the calibration I usually dial in a +1 dB boost to the center channel.
But overall what you describe almost definitely isn't a blu-ray issue; it uses the same audio data format as streaming services (Dolby Digital, DD+, Dolby Atmos) and even regular DVDs (plain Dolby Digital).
Though maybe it's one of the additional formats (e.g. DTS Master Audio) that could be on a blu-ray. Maybe something about that kind of format + your receiver is just a bad combo.
Another possibility is if the blu-ray player itself is processing the audio and screwing up the levels.
Ah! heh, nostr is both wonderful and wonderfully infuriating in its own way.
So I know I'm late to the nip23 (long-form content) world, but it's confusing!!
I don't see the long-form post in my normal profile feed (at least not in primal or snort), but I am seeing replies and reactions to that post in my snort notifications (but not primal).
So I guess I should treat it like any other external blog post? Write it over on habla.news (or wherever), then link to it in a normal nostr post?
Seems like that makes sense and is kind of dumb at the same time.
* Write a (longer) thing on nostr (via nip-23)
* Then say, "Hey, I wrote a thing on nostr!"... on nostr.
No man is an island; the lives you've touched heavily influence the scales, too, friend! You've been a very big net positive for me and tons of others.
Yeah, a bad UI in one older version of one popular device shouldn't mean the whole bitcoin universe should just give up on the easiest, most trust-minimized, externally verifiable seed generation method out there.
Gonna go take nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 for a walk. I expect y'all to have this bitcoin thing over $50k by the time we return, mm'kay?
Ha, had no doubt you'd know the reference!
Zero comments on it at Chicago BitDevs tho. ☹️
Eddie Vedder is just so intense.
I watched this one today and cried along with her:
Motion pics kind of annoy me. But being able to export them as a GIF is occasionally fun! nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7
🤣 Haven't seen any of those breakdowns yet!
My audio consumption has become 100% podcasts and it's so easy to just relegate music into the background. It's really nice to re-engage deeply with some of these incredible songs. I somehow kinda forgot how powerful they can be.
When I was in middle school, my neighbor was my age but had WAY older brothers. We'd listen to their albums (actual records) for HOURS. Made such a huge impression on me. As a result I basically have the same classic rock tastes as 50-60yr olds!
Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Frampton, Clapton.
Double recommendation here:
1.) You young'uns probably don't know Supertramp. Catch up.
2.) This YT channel is my new favorite lunchtime watch! She analyzes vocal technique (something I know ZERO about) and how it interconnects with the lyrics, emotion, the rest of the song's elements. But the real joy is watching her react to a song for the first time as she steps through it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6o0_3LBOk
Watching her absorb Supertramp's constantly unexpected, wonderfully unique pizzazz while appreciating the singer's heartfelt storytelling is a blast.
I've loved this song for DECADES but it's really cool to appreciate it in a new way from her more technical perspective and her own in-the-moment emotional reactions.
One more:
Girl HAD NEVER HEARD "BLACK" BEFORE!!
She's enthusiastic-ish enough in the beginning, but in kind of a polite (i.e. not mind blown) way. And then the raw, furious crescendos hit at the end and she's like, "Holy shit!" 🤯
Eddie Vedder is a force.
Double recommendation here:
1.) You young'uns probably don't know Supertramp. Catch up.
2.) This YT channel is my new favorite lunchtime watch! She analyzes vocal technique (something I know ZERO about) and how it interconnects with the lyrics, emotion, the rest of the song's elements. But the real joy is watching her react to a song for the first time as she steps through it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6o0_3LBOk
Watching her absorb Supertramp's constantly unexpected, wonderfully unique pizzazz while appreciating the singer's heartfelt storytelling is a blast.
I've loved this song for DECADES but it's really cool to appreciate it in a new way from her more technical perspective and her own in-the-moment emotional reactions.
Whirlpool is a type of coinjoin, yes. But there are other approaches to constructing a coinjoin.