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

Post Subject: About dead-end listening rooms.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/3/2012

I would like to share a concept that is not widely understood or even not formulated in mind of many audio people but something the has a tremendous importance to me personaly. The readers of my site know that I do not like the concept of dedicated listening rooms but event room is made integrated with living environment than I am not always feeling friendly about those rooms.

Most of the listening rooms, consciously or not, are made as dead-end listening rooms. It means a person can enter in the room and then shall exit from the same door, so the room servers single listening purpose. I generally have tendency do not like those type of the rooms and I very much prefer if a listening room has multiple exits and the most important to be not dead-end room in dwelling but to be rather the proxy room or the room across wish activity in house get transferred across the listening room. So, basically we are taking about end of house positioning vs. middle of the house positioning. Take a look at the picture of these rooms:

They are wonderful room but there is no “activity” behind the loudspeakers or on the side of the rooms. They are obviously dedicated rooms and to be in the rooms you do not “live” there but just spend time ONLY to listen in the rooms. If the room sort of by-pass room, that way how it presented in the pictures below:

…than I do feel much more attractive to the rooms as the last rooms have feeling to be a part of environment instead of setting and forcing own environment…

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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