Got up and went to Salem Baptist again this morning. Dave apparently got roped into plans right afterwards again this week, so we had to give him crap about that. He did go look at houses though. Anyways afterwards I sat around for a bit, and then decided to get motivated and took out the other wall in the basement. This one was messier since I had to make a lot more cuts in the drywall to work around some electrical in the wall. Now I have a good look at what's there though since it's just sorta hanging in free space so I can plan moving it. After cleaning up with the shop vac and letting the box fan/furnace filter combination catch the fine dust from that, I pulled out my regular vaccuum and did more cleanup. That thing's great because it not only cleans up the floor but all the furniture, and gets almost all the dust without spitting any back out. Of course all this turned me into a dustball so I had to clean up. :( Then I washed down the leather chairs and wiped the dust off the speakers too. They had accumulated a nice layer on top. Since I had sorta destroyed the old surround speaker locations I had to remount them. Of course now they have much better mounting points anyways though. Remounting and changing the layout of the room of ocurse means recalibrating so out came the SPL meter and calibration DVD. Got all that set up and then decided to do a little test with a CD. Started it playing and turned up the volume while tracking it with the SPL meter. I stopped when I was sustaining an average of 108db SPL. I could have still gone farther on the gain (especially given I was working off a relatively quiet track), and there was no audible distortion (for what that's worth), although for the sake of my ears I decided that was plenty. Maybe I'll have to bring in some hearing protection and try a real test sometime. Anyways later I ended up going shopping and bought a few CDs, a hammer, and groceries. I'm listening to the CDs now, pretty good on some, although the audio quality on one is pretty bad (it's a mix and it sounds like they have a few spots with bad bitstreams). I also got magazines today. Apparently for some reason the address change didn't take so they were sitting at my parents' house. Weird.