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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?

Post Subject: The first day.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/17/2016

With all my domesticated obligations I did not have neither time nor strength to setup my playback. This week I decided to do something. Complimentary to my mood a long time site reader happened to be in Boston and he volunteered to spend with time with me to help me with my room setup – what a luck!!!

So, yesterday we positioned speakers, run cables, moved equipment, soldering filters and were trying to get some kind of sound in the room. We succeeded and as now 3 channels of Macondo are operational. The room is not treated at all, the Macondo channels are not alighted, the system is stone-cold and thrown into the room pretty much as is. Still, we got surprisingly pleasant sound for the means how it was done. It is not overall sound was good but rather the total feeling of sound in THIS room was very pleasant. This is VERY good news for me as I was not sure if the playback would feel good to play not along the cathedral ceiling as usually but across it.

Now, I need to continue to set up everything but I have a dilemma about… decor. I would need a large 18x14 oriental rug in the room, sectional sofa with integrated listening position and large array window curtains. They understandably need to be color coordinated but I have no decision what color would it be. The bigger problem is the listening sectional couch, the size and design of it would to a great degree impact the listening distance. With knowing the exact listening distance I can’t time-align the system and decide of speaker positioning. So, in a way the task #1 now is to find a listening sectional sofa that would accommodate 8 people comfortably and will have in the same time will have non-compromised listening spot for one person.

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