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 July 15^th.

Here’s one of the cabinets fully assembled, just awaiting doors to be fit, and painted.  The legs are glued in place, using solid dowel pins, and one or two deeply recessed countersunk screws.  These things are never coming off.

 

 This enclosure is a little bit different, as it has a permanent panel installed.  This location will still have a door on it, but the inside is dedicated use as a downward firing subwoofer speaker.

Here’s a little bit better view of the backside of the subwoofer portion of the cabinet.  The speaker goes in the bottom, and fires downwards towards the ground and the dedicated single channel 500watt amplifier will be flush mounted on the back.

 

One necessary addition.  I notched the bottom and side panels to facilitate airflow to the cabinets.  Since I know that at least two will be taken up by audio or video equipment, I would need to ensure adequate airflow to the components.  These notches and large cutouts will allow access to wires, connections, and allow thermal convection airflow to take place.  Once the doors are closed, you’d never know they existed.

Ok, it’s time to try out my new paint method.  I purchased a Wagner Control Spray Plus painting system.  It’s not anything like the regular Wagner Power Painters of the past.  This uses high velocity air to distribute paint.  I’m painting the door frames in this photo.  It worked very surprisingly well.  It’s not the perfect end all, be all solution, but it worked better than my broken down air compressor and the brush method.

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 July 19^th, it’s time to start installing cross overs and speakers.  I was able to get all the necessary speakers for considerably cheaper by buying the truncated frame, so that’s exactly what we did.  It saved us about $200.oo just in speakers.  I’m not too worried about my imperfect blackout painting job either… the grills cover it all up.

 The mantle gets loaded with its speakers…
 

July 22^nd,

The cabinets are coated with two or three heavy coats of gloss white latex paint, and the downward firing subwoofer is in place.  Don’t worry, no one will see it.  One thing that was and is surprising is the colossal weight of the subwoofer speaker alone.  It must be about 20 pounds, making this end of the cabinet very heavy and cumbersome to move.

Cabinets are in the house and the children wasted no time crawling into and out of them.

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July 23^rd; I wanted to pick up the window etching material we added to the front door side glass.  It’s a silicone sheet you cut and adhere using a combination of static buildup and silicone ‘sticky’.  So the glass doors (tempered for safety) tie in with other parts of the house.  Just like the legs of the media cabinets, and the arches over the TV and Fireplace box.

While it’s not 100% complete, I have since completed and fit the end panels of the backing board and hidden all the wires.  I’ve also installed the rear surround speakers using in ceiling coaxial speakers.  They work very well and the sound just envelopes you.

Fini’