Monthly Archives: February 2011

Noble Fidelity speakers

While reading about audio equipment to buy for the new house, I browsed across the Best of 2010 list from hometheaterreview.com and saw that they gave Noble Fidelity the award for best in-wall speakers. I’d never heard of the company and had already ordered speakers from Klipsch and Definitive Technology to try. I emailed them asking for a dealer in Seattle and got a response from Gregory Ford, I believe the, or an, owner of the company, said they don’t have a Seattle dealer but will sell direct to me with a no-questions-asked return policy so I can try them out. They even paid the shipping charges both ways! I couldn’t resist, so I took him up on the offer and ordered a pair of L-85 in-ceiling speakers.

Noble Fidelity L-85

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Drywall

We went to the house today to go over the millwork with the millwork guy, adjust the foyer speakers (which someone already did), test the speakers in the house and decide on exact speaker locations in each room.

Basement with drywall

We got the see the basement drywalled and the taping guy was there doing his work. For the first time, we see real walls and can get a better sense of the space in each room. The drywallers were stocking all the drywall and materials for the other floors too with a boom that lifted everything through the windows in the upper floors.

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Speaker testing

I built little boxes to simulate a wall for each speaker:

Speaker testing

It’s hard to tell them apart, though. Maybe some beer will help.

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