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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: Differently but the same.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/8/2010

Romy the Cat wrote:
Ok, I think it is a good time to deal with room acoustics. All infrastructure problems are set. The Midbass horns are underway; the electricity will be investigated but as now is addressed by PP2000. Macondo and Milqs are inhaled, the system is up. It is too easily to think about lower bass channel. I think it is a good time now to think about room acoustics, particularly in conjunction with the room décor. It is very interesting subject; I will share what is going on. As now, in more or less naked room the sound of the room is not good. Let see what can be done with it.

Was thinking about my room. My former room was perfect from acoustic point of view. One of the reason is the it was small and for 13 year I lived in there I accumulated in the room a lot of shit that was hanging on the walls… and the ceiling. Those thousands individual subject created a perfect defusing surfaces. In the new room I would like to do the things differently but in the same way – minimum absorption and max diffusion and randomizing.

The main thing different is that I would like in my larger listening/leaving room to be nothing beside my listening chair, a pair of speaker and amps. I would like do not see any visible acoustic efforts – it is still a leaving room. As I told the room has natural bays that would wonderfully take care of the side reflections. One part of the wall did need a help but I have designed a nice console table that sever very nice decor duty, functional purpose and take care of acoustic diffusion.

The only concerns in my room are ceiling and a small fraction of back wall. The back wall is very small – I am sure I will take care of it. The ceiling is a bitch however. My leading idea is to use the sails in the same way how I did in my old room – I like the result a lot. To use sails in this room is nit more complicate as the room has ceiling pitch, ceiling fans, skylights , light-painted (sea sand color) and I would like to keep it airy qualities.

So, was it am considering is to use two 30-35 feet diagonal sails. Here is my plan:

Black oval is my listening spot. Red are the midbass speakers 10 feet above me. Grey are Macondo. Blue are the ceiling fans. Yellow are the sails that I am considering to hang 8 feet above the floor. I need to start looking for a right material. It shall be hairy but transparent, wish me lack…

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