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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: I have a dream, the dream about a Chair.

Post Subject: A perfect listening chair, two years later.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/19/2012

My feeling about perfect listening chair has altered lately – I need another sit at my listening chair, so it kind of becoming a listening couch instead of listening chair. As much efforts I spent to explain to my girlfriend about time alignment and necessity to be at more or less equidistant position from right and left channel she still sits at neither my listening chair upside down like a monkey. It is not that I complain about - whatever makes her happy but I think bigger sitting arrangement will be more beneficial. It is not the last factor that she is my type of a woman, who can listen entire Bruckner 8 without a few trips to entertain herself to make a sandwich.

So, in replacement of my egotistic single listening chair we decided to make it more like “living room” arrangement, organizing it to one couch, two chairs and a table. I very much welcome to this idea, in fact we did some prototyping with the couches and chairs that we have and I do like the result.

Of course the reference listening position for with the whole room was designed will stay put – it will be in the very middle of the couch. The side chair will be no abstraction of any kind and the only concern I have is a table. It I have a large flat horizontal surface a few feet from my listening position and between me and loudspeaker then it will introduce fists reflection at HF. To cure the surface with sound absorbing material I will not be, so I need to come up with some kind of configuration of destine of the table that would be affective to imaging. Any interesting ideas or did anybody dealt with the problem?

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