Exciting news - new digs!

[Doc B]

At last the office is complete enough to start moving in. We have some things to sort out yet like cable and phone before we can start to work there every day, but Shawn and I are thinkin' we need to get the system upstairs so we can have a little music while we get the lab and and packing rooms built. Tomorrow is looking like a great day to set up a sound system!

 

[JC]

LOL!  I remember helping some friends to move into their new place a number of years ago.  The very first thing we moved, even before the final inspections, was a used refrigerator which had been modified to house a full keg with tap and CO2 tank.  They were moving out into the country, you see, and had decided that re-cycling one beer can every so often made much more sense than several every week...

Thankfully, the three of us managed to get the job done a full day before everyone else arrived to help with the full move.

Was your space pre-wired for your local network?

 

[Doc B]

Just a quick note from the Chamber of Solitude before I head back to the office. We have a system about 2/3 set up. Been driving back and forth with loads to the new place since 10 this morning, and I will probably be off the grid for the rest of the day. Looks like things are moving along nicely here, thanks everyone for pitching in on the tech support! I'll try to post a pic or two of the first inklings of the new listening room once we get some noise.

 

[ironbut]

Exciting stuff!
I bet you're plenty beat up when you get home at the end of the day.

I was just wondering, what kind of service (AC) do you have available? There must be gobs of Amps if you want it. I guess I've never really looked but the transformers they hang for big complexes must be huge compared to their residential brothers.

 

[Doc B]

Here's the latest pics. We got the system set up and it seems that the room will work well with the appropriate amount of treatment. First shot is the system as it sits this evening. Second shot is just a view standing on the landing of the stair to the listening room, looking down the hall to the lobby.

 

[ironbut]

Looks excellent Dan! The TP release covers down the hallway really look classy.
Ya know, when most folks are moving into a new place, the gear they usually listen to is a boombox!

 

[Doc B]

More good headway today. We leased one third of a larger space for our office. The building was being used by a high tech firm before us, and it was heavily wired for network and phone. Unfortunately all the LAN cables (must have been 50 or so, these guys even had a fiber drop installed) came to a hub in the part of the space that we didn't lease. So we spent the first half day pulling about 17 cables that went to ports in our part of the building thru walls and along chases, and then spent the second half figuring out which cable went where with a continuity beeper and labeling them. In the end we found we have one to four LAN ports in every room but the bathroom. Tomorrow we terminate cut and rerouted LAN cables, hook up switchers and a router and hope the cable guy shows up this week. Once we get internet running we can move in!

 

[JC]

I recommend going wireless for the can; it's just safer that way!

As much work as it must have been sorting all of that out, it must be a great feeling to have all of that infrastructure already installed.  It's way less work than starting from scratch, believe it or not.

I presume the espresso maker waits until the very end...

 

[Doc B]

I presume the espresso maker waits until the very end...

Eileen brought it over Monday. No fridge yet though, so no milk on hand.

 

[pboser]

"... no milk on hand."
May I point out that espresso requires no milk?
Lattes?  Cappuccino?  Pfeh!

 

[Doc B]

Indeed Shawn and I had double espressos for our afternoon pick me up. I often prefer an Americano, cap or machiatto myself, depending upon my mood. The nice thing is that all will be available at Bottleheadquarters.

LAN cables are done, now we just need to hear back from the cable company and get hooked up so we can begin to move in. Lab carpet came up yesterday and the next step there is a new vinyl tile floor and benches. The new listening room continues to surprise us. It would seem that my gamble of leaving the back walls of the room open to the rest of the space paid off. We have plenty of bass and it seems pretty even. The soundstage is marvelously wide without the instruments or singer's heads growing too big. When we have some more time I will shoot it and see where we need to head with treatments. I think it's going to evolve into a really good room.

I'm in the old office today, keeping all the other balls in the air.

 

[Doc B]

we get things done. This is the new composition vinyl tile floor in the lab, which replaces the carpet that was in there before. Two very messy sticky days of crawling around on our knees, but the end result is a nice light, easy to sweep floor. Workbenches are the next step in this room. Cable guy is supposed to show up Tuesday and once we have internet, the plan is to really move in.

 

[Dr. Toobz]

You guys are going to have some really great digs! Congratulations. Too bad "Bottleheadquarters" is a bit of a trip from the northern plains, otherwise, I'd stop by sometime. The listening room idea is great!

 

[ironbut]

The shop looks great.
Those double doors are sure to come in handy too.
I've seen some shops where they have their bins of "occasional" parts on racks with decent casters. They just kept them in a storage room until they were needed and wheeled them into rows in their shop.

 

[Doc B]

Woo hoo! I am posting from the new office. Just got the network and phone pulled together and most of my office stuff moved today. We will get a little more moved tomorrow and then we will be leaving for Chicago on Thursday.

 

[q]

Congrats! That's got to feel good
I have a sister I've never met about 40min away, a son in japan (flight from Seattle)..so no more excuses for a visit
better start saving me pennies
q

 

[Doc B]

Here's a bad phone shot of the of new headphone listening setup we're putting together in the lobby.

 

[Grainger49]

That is the best picture I have seen from a phone.  It isn't high resolution but it is in focus (I think they have bad focusing for the most part) and it is well lighted.  I would have never known it was a phone shot.

 

[Doc B]

Thanks Grainger. Photoshop saves the day once again. Cheap cameras under artificial lighting seem to burn out the highlights with a ghastly yellow overtone and generally oversaturate. I had to hammer this one pretty hard to get it to look vaguely natural. I'm bringing the real camera to the office today so I should have better shots soon.