Flying Bear Theatre Technicals

A few changes have taken place at Flying Bear Theatre since your last visit. The projector now hangs from the ceiling in a permanent location. Judith did a great job of aligning the projector so , no matter what type of video we are watching, all we have to do is change the aspect ratio (by remote control) and off we go with no fiddling around to line things up. This also opens up some prime seating space in the center of the theatre that we used to have to keep open for the projector light beam.

We also improved the sound! We changed from an old Sony Receiver to a brand-spanking new Yamaha RXV757, which got us 7 channel sound - plus a sub woofer. More importantly, it got us auto-calbration so we no longer have to depend on our ears to try and get things right - a microphone attached to the Yamaha combined with the onboard computer in the Yamaha sets everything up auto magically. It really works well.  We also added an old classic amplifier an Adcom GFA 555 to power the Left and Right front speakers.

The speakers now consist of:

•  2 Polk SDA-2As for the left and right front channels
•  A Polk RT55I for the Center channel
•  Polk 10 inch Sub woofer
•  4 Polk Atrium 45s (2 each channel) for the Left and Right surround speakers
•  2 Polk Atrium 45s (1 each channel) for the Left and Right surround back speakers

Our video Projector is an Optoma H31 projecting onto an Matte White Elite  screen that is about 49 inches high and 87 inches wide (in TV talk this is a 100 inch diagagonal screen) , our DVD Player is a Samsung HD-941. The video signal is sent to the projector digitally by an HDMI to DVI cable, the audio is sent from the DVD player to the Yamaha Receiver via fiber optic cable.

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