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Post Subject: Requirements for a NEW listening room?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/2/2015

Well, I need to admit that with arriving Thomas and to a degree with adopting Amy my relationship with my listening room have changed. It is not the relationship change but the volume that listening room occupies in my daily practice. I very much have interest and desire to deal with listening room in the way how I dealt before but nowadays I am not always have physical or psychological liberty to do so. It might be what all dads’ experience, I do not know but I do know that taking care of my little child gives me much pleasure that I would like do not miss. I do not feel that spending my time with baby conflicts with my audio interests, the baby is always wins and I have zero frustration about it. Thomas is 10 months and he rust recently got converted from a vegetable to more or less adequately behaving infant and it gives an opportunity to stop extinguish day-to-day fires, elevate myself at 60.000 feet up and look at the picture of my listening room wider.

So, where am I standing? Nowadays we are working on our second baby and Amy is conceiving a notion of moving. The current house is getting a bit smaller then we would like to have with 30% of space taken by my audio and 40% is taken by Thomas toys. So, the idea to move is not particularly out of realms of rational. We do want to keep the current house and we both love it, represent a good investment and we would not mind to rent it out and then return here back in 20 years when kinds leave. There is no doubt in our mind that we will pursue in any new home a concept of “listening room”, the question that I am asking myself is what that new model would be and how much I am willing to go to implement this concept.

My current listening room is rendition of notion that a listening room should be integrated with house main leaving room and ugly audio ingredients of playback (midbass horns) need to be taken out of way of living. What I have done was very good and now the question I ask if I would like to repeat the success in a new home. Well, this is a bit complicated. First of all I would like to have my Listening room, Living room and Opera room to be integrated. Thankfully Amy does not consider my speakers, amps and the rest of it to look ugly and their presents in living room does not bother her at all, in fact she semi-likes it. So, the main question I ask myself at this stage of strategizing would be the following: would I like to have integrated Listening room, Living room and Opera room as the ONLY Living room in the house or I would go for integrated Listening, Living and Opera rooms as second house’ Living room?

I certainly do not want to have a “dedicated room” and I do want my family spend time with me in the new listening room but if my new listening room is a second living room in a house then I would have some liberty to make audio objectives a more dominating and it goes a long way with acoustic treatment, selection of surface finishing, picking furniture and dealing with many other aspect of décor.

The project of moving is not on pipeline for a couple of hears but I do want to find a peace with my own hear regarding my new listening room objectives.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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