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In the Thread: Learn to listen your listening rooms

Post Subject: Rooms and music-roomsPosted by twogoodears on: 8/31/2009

JD's post contains several interesting tips and hints: talking of walls and floors is important like and possibly more than talking about a pleasant, cocooning space where to find themselves in music and reading and relaxed chatting with friends and relatives.

I find miself agreeing about such a character of the room, me and my wife always called (in italian) "La stanza della Musica" - i.e. the music room - where music is lived, absorbed, discussed, enjoyed, played.

I also read in the dimmed light, with no music at all, and, most important, I also play - alone or with friends and practice by myself, on acoustic and classical guitar and, more recently, on oud.

The sound of the music room is very different from other rooms in my home - I'd define it as "sweet" sounding.

Many years ago I had a kilim carpet from Konya (Turkey) over the black marble floor, but when I throwed it somewhere else, I improved music reproduction from my audio system.

Also without a carpet, the reflections are apparently very low - thousands records and hundreds books and guitar cases and plants an curtains, all works in, as I jokingly say, "distracting" reflections...

I also record - myself or freinds - in this very same room: acoustic guitar, oud, theorbo or lute... with a Blumlein-patterned Neumann's USM-69 at 2 meters from instrument with analog tape... well, the results are often surprising.

It's not an anechoic room, but sweety and lively... so, I'd add to JD's list for a nice, proper room for home music - if a room sounds good (unboomy/undull/pleasant) for playing an acoustic instrument, it's another signal for a music-friendly room also good for audio.

... my dog also love to sleep - more like a cat, than a dog, actually;-) - in my music room.

... but don't try to play "Beauty in the Beast" by Wendy Carlos or Windham Hill Records "Guyto Monks"' growling vocals... my dog will sure bark at speakers!

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