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

Post Subject: I need to build something customPosted by Romy the Cat on: 4/23/2015

tuga wrote:
Have you considered "fencing" your equipment bay?
Such a baby-proof fence might actually be made to look nice (more so in a large room such as yours) and you wouldn't have to reposition all your equipment and cables...again.

Actually it is not about the "fencing": protecting the equipment or protecting baby. It is about a completely different objective. We are in process of building in basement a very nice dedicated play room but I do not like the subject of “dedicated play room”. It turn out that we like to spend time with our baby and we like to spend time in your listening room. So, it is naturally that we would like to have baby crawling and playing in the listening room. The problem that I do not want his toys, baby devises and all the rest that come with little people to clod the room. To have in the listening room a dedicated and well isolated location would be the best and my equipment bay is truly great location for it. It is octagon mini-rom of 9 feet diameter with 5 windows, fully heated. We got Infant 8-Panel PlaySafe Playard that would be perfect in equipment bay and would leave room for all those chars, swing, walkers and zillion other devises. That is kind of sad but this little man has more specialty chairs then I have protractors to align TT’s cartridges!

Thankfully, if I move all equipment to the very handy indentations in the wall that connect the equipment bay with the rest of the room then I think I will be able to pile up everything in there. We were visiting this weekend one local orchestra conductor who has a huge amount of audio and he had everything organized in two 72” tall equipment racks. It was impressive how little room it took. For sure he had very simple equipment: SS-only and digital only but the direction was I think lucrative.

For me the key would be how to manage to stick TT into my 90” tall equipment rack. I am keep strategizing and my leading idea is to have 38” stand at the floor with TT atop and then another 36” of rack to mount to the wall, that would leave 14” gap for TT need. I did not decided and I have some concerns. My CD transport is top loaded as well, so the access need to be accommodated to it as well… I need to build something custom….

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