Things left to do

Here's what remains- it is relatively small.

• Hang movie posters
• Replace bulbs in marquee
• Repaint trim
• Blow insulation above cabinet
• Replace IB drivers with 18" Ficaraudio Q18s.
• Run new cables for video and VGA (better quality)
  

There are some optional things I need to consider:

• Second row of seats (this is only an issue when we have lots of adults, we just let kids camp out on beanbags)
• HTPC- right now the girls are using the former HTPC. Unless I put money into another tuner card, this is a non-starter. Gaming can be done with the Dreamcast.
  

IB upgrade

My tempests went belly-up. Maybe because they were being over-driven, but I never heard the "you'll know when you hear!" sounds of impending doom.

One thing would be to replace them with 4x15s instead of the pair of them. Thing about that- my manifold location- the proper location of being centered and in the front of the room- is limited for room. For me to crawl past the speakers, I would have to move it to a non-ideal location.

So, the other option is to go bigger. I like the sound of that. Using a spreadsheet listed on the Cult's website, there is a rating of cost-per-liter of air. I'm leaning towards the Ficaraudio.com Q18s, because the winner- the Chinese-made Mach5s are still unproven (and not much better priced).