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miab wrote:

Romy the Cat wrote:   Hm, I was so proud about myself for a few days. I thought I have a key how to render my midbass horn in perfects time-aligned position and to make it literally invisible in my new room. It was such an elegant design!!! It still might be renderable but I discover some aspects in the new house that can make it very hard to implement. I was already thinking about the color patter of my new horns! Such a blow!!!   What did you find in the new house that will not allow you to do that? There might be a way around it.

Miab, I thought about this properly a lot. There is a lot in this house that I like from audio perspective. I like how the listening room talks with the other rooms and a few other moments. The most important is that the listening room allows using a semi-long-wall configuration, has enough for my objective volume and still not huge to lose the near-filed configuration.  I have been looking for right house from July and this is the very first that i was able to like in the neighborhood that I like, having other amendment trhat I like and is in my price range. I think the size of the listening room is perfect for what I am trying to accomplish: not too small to let Macondo to breathe free but not too large where Milq would clip to handle the power.

When I saw the house for a first time, I literary in my car right after the open house drew a plan how the midbass hours might be implemented in there. Below is the representation of the idea. The sealing below the moths of the midbass horns is cathedral, with wings doing right and left. The space above is a regular triangle roof with attic. So, there is a triangle wall in the second floor between the cathedral listening room and the house attic, where both roofs shape “T”. So, my idea was to cut off that triangle wall on the “second floor” of the listening room and slide in the attic a pair of the midbass horns, having their mouths to be the triangle wall. It is 19 feet by 6-8 feet – a good dimension to have two mouths.

Upon further inspection I have learned in the location what the horns shall be there are the beams from the perpendicular roof. That sucks! There is an option however. The beams that are in my way are the legacy of the attic roof but it is still under the cathedral roof. So, hypothetically the beams can be cut to accommodate the horns but I am afraid that it will screw up the structural integrity of the attic roof. So, I might bring a roof specialist to evaluate if those internal diagonal studs might be removed. Alternatively it would be possible to keep the existing beams in the mouth of the horns. I wish it were easier…

I do have alternative ways how the big horns might be done in the room (option B) but I will lose the time-alignment.

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