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In the Thread: The Opera Room

Post Subject: A new feel of Opera Room.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/31/2012

Amy turned out to be a fireplace kitten and she spends a lot of time in our opera room, cooking her feet on fire and filing the room with marvelous purring. We were planning to do major Opera Room remodeling this winter but the resent Hurricane Sandy truly inspired me to expedite the remodeling ceremony. While Amy was locked in Portsmouth NH (our second temporary home) during the Hurricane I was locked in the Boston house working on Opera Room remodeling. In addition during the Hurricane we had two large trees fallen done and naturally we have a lot of firewood. So, we are building something like firewood shed and I am learning how to spit wood.

The reality is that the new Opera Room arrangement with Amy furniture turned out to be spectacular. We have large and superbly comfortable seating arrangement, we have even eating area in there, we have a wonderful large screen opportunity and we have very easy conversion of this room into fireplace experience. Surprisingly all the things that we had before but set in new configuration just “clicked” right. The room has that “library” feeling and for whatever reasons it become VERY pleasant to be in the room. I am still working on lighting and final touches but the idea has been already there and I like the result very much. Frankly there is something in that room that makes me to like it even more than my main listening room. For sure it is not sound but a special feeling of comfort, darkness and superb comport that the room has developed. The listening room is large, bright and wide open. The Opera Room, dark, cozy and well balanced in term of space. I do like it now as never before.

The room still has that Cetla 91 acoustic system. It does what it does, not too serious for serious music but at this point it is enough for our background music and movies. I am not working on making my Cetla 91 to sound more stimulating but instead learning how to sharpen the teeth of my chainsaw, what is the difference between maul or ax, and how to use Fiskars, Baileys, Oxheads and Gransfors. We have a lot of wood to cut and I am not exactly the ax operating Jew…

Also, a friend of my recalled his OPPO player and I need to find some kind of new DVD/BlueRay player to replace it. OPPO did wonderful quality of video but the navigation of the dials was horrible. I heard the new model that they are coming will be better. I might go for some consumer units from Sony, Samsung, Panasonic or alike as I a bit sick from horrible loading time and disk administration that more expensive units looks like offer.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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