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In the Thread: Small spaces
Post Subject: Turning the constraints of space into a virtuePosted by Romy the Cat on: 3/24/2014
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 decoud wrote:
So the ambition is low, and I am after a simple solution prioritizing these things, but the question of general interest is whether anyone has found an elegant way of turning the constraints of space into a virtue

Well, I think it is about a balance between ambitions and the desire to do something with own hands. The desire to have a better sound are given, the question is how much efforts (time, money, blood etc…) you are willing to invest. I do not know how you, I can tell only about myself.
Bedroom is happens is not only the place where we sleep but the place what I sometimes work, read, watch TV, eat, wiffy does dzin-dzin, play with Cats, aimlessly spend time… in bedroom we unfortunately spend much more time then we are willing to admit. Naturally we would like to have good sound in there. In fact Amy did complain many times that she married an audio freak but we have no good sound in bedroom. A normal audio guy shall recognize it as a super stimulating encouragement but it for some reasons does not happen with me. Believe me or not we have a regular 48” TV on the wall with horrible default sound and we have Amy’s Bose iPhone -driven integrated amp on a nightstand. That is all music that we have and leaving over 2 years together I did not make any attempts to change it. Strange, isn’t it?

The fact that I did not change it does it mend that I did not think about it. I have no problem to bring a good monitors in there but it would requires an amplification, own remote control and integration with TV, DVD player, streaming player and iPhone. If you think that am willing to build a whole new setup in bedroom then you are mistaken. So, the best solution for me would be some kind of active integrated devise, some kind of sound bar. The problem that sound bars today are kind of strange and I did not see what I want.

Here is what I want:

1)    Blewtooth
2)    Source-sensing 2-3 lines input
3)    Power amp build-in
4)    lines input sensitivity adjustment
5)    Do not go very low, let say no lower than 45Hz
6)    Automatic on/off
7)    Actual good sound
8)    Volume synchronized line level output
9)    Black color without any chrome bumpers.
10) Ability to be consoled by single click from my external remote
11) Have FM tuner
12) Have iPhone and Driod stations.
13) Ability to play CDs (probably I can do it from DVD player but it is inconvenient)
14) Do not cost $1000

I was looking and I did not find any. The high-end sound bars that have a lot of good features but they cost a lot and they are full-range bars with rubber bass driver and very bad MF. So, I did not find any off the shelf solution and I am not willing to go DIY direction for bedroom.

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