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Post Subject: My new 'favorite' listening room.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/22/2013

I never knew that it will be so much fun. As I started the basement cleanup project I did kind of remotely conceptualize that I will try to make a winter pipe smoking place. Instead I discover in my house a new listening room that I have to tell you give me surprisingly a lot of pleasure.

This is probably 15 by 20 room and it is semi-finished basement. It has wide opening to two other rooms, so it has a good ability to care LF overload. The room has my large work bench table that I built year back and super comfy chairs. That is fully smoking room and has own heating and exhaust fans. I have no idea why but it is so incredibly pleasant for me to be there! The room is kind of my today version of man-cave. I use to have whole house like this but now I have in house flowers, carpers, high-heel shoes, plants and talks about baby-save power outlets. It is not that I frustrated about my live on the main floor – I love it a lot but it also it is nice to descend to the basement, light up a good pipe… and celebrate own fake manliness.

Audio wise I set up a separate playback. It is Danlavy SC-3 driven by a pair of vintage Yamaha 150W monoblocks. I always was a bit fun of Danlavy SC-3. I bout it in past but they never sound right in my large room. Here is much smaller room the truly flourish. I always consider that SC-3 is a biggest secret. The larger Danlavy are demanding and room–conscious. The SC-3 have a footprint of a shoe-box, do not go very low and not truly bothered by room and across long wall the throw very pleasant sound. It is not the super-demanding high-demand sound and there is a lot that I might name is wrong with SC-3. However looking at the off the shelf solution and listening the 30-50-100 contemporary speakers with asphalt mid drivers and bullet-proof tweeters I need to say that SC-3 is true remedy. It is just $1200 used and it is just a pleasure to listen them. There is some amazing politeness in them that I always love in Danlavy. Perhaps my super-sensitivity to phase anomalies met the John Dunlavy’s love to first order crossovers….

Anyhow, the room is very cute and I am working on more powerful exhaust idea. There are many options and I am evaluating them. I would like to have good 700-900cmf sucking out of room. The house has center-vacuum that I do not use and I was trying to use the center-vacuum piping to suck the air from the smoking room. Well, it gig not work. With 2” center-vacuum piping I need to create over 2000cmf suction to get 700cmf in the smoking room. The 2000cmf suction it would be good 15A industrial motor – too much for the purpose…

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