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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: It is still all for grabs.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/21/2017
 anthony wrote:
Personally, I would prefer to have the equipment rack somewhere else in the room but that is just me. 
The subject of equipment rack to be in or out is well debated by be in past. Unquestionably from sonic perspective it should be out but. There are so many buts in there.  You need to run a long interconnect cables from you preamps to power amps. I have 4M vintage Dominus that is not long enough I hardly trust any other cable. Then how to run it? In my former home I drilled a whole on the floor and ran it over in basement. I am not sure if I want to do it now as the ingredients in my cost-benefits analyses are different nowadays. You see, the listening room in our house is not truly a dedicated listening room but rather second family room. Behind the listening couch there is a huge 12 people parabolic sofa and huge 5’x5’ ottoman, which acts sometimes as snack table. So, we slide the listed in chair on side, put the ottoman there and watch movies with wify, whole family or with some odd friends. There are some people even who come to us to watch sports (American football and alike). So, the idea was to have one single location what all audio equipment would be encapsulated. If you see on the left of the LF channel there are two very might portable fences. So, what the kind in the room I run the portable fences between the midbass horns that effectively shield all equipment from the kids. They still manage to inflict damage. Thomas for instance damped dry fish food into right upper bass horn, it was a LOT efforts to vacuum it out. I personally do like the equipment rack between the speakers in THIS room. This room has no better location for equipment rack. I loved that in my former listening room there was a dedicated equipment bay what all equipment was hiding but I do not have it here. When we were hinting for new house and I saw this rooms I got instant vision how my playback will sit in this room and I loved the idea a lot. I still feel that for the size of the installation and for the way how I would like the playback to interact with my non-audio life I get as very comfortable for me compromise. I also like that the playback is not visible what you enter the room. I do not know why but I do not like the installations with curb appeal…
 Anthony wrote:
I am sure there is no real need to point out that you could use a smaller projector screen if you really wanted to move the speakers closer together.  That, or move the screen further away so that it is "framed" by Macondo when you are looking at it from your listening chair.  You may find that you can still see all of the 140" screen if it is closer to the wall, but of course the equipment rack would be in the way.
Yep, I well investigated it. I do not want to use smaller screen. I would love to use twice bigger in fact and I have my fantasy about 200” screen. I can move the screen her and there and save 1 feet but it is kind of pain in ass to make the slanted silent and to find the right location for the whole. Also, of I move the scree closer to the equipment rack then the heat from the amps will be impacting the screen. As now the screen drops right in front of amps, barley touching the injection channels, I might play with it but I doubt that I can get full 2 feet that I think I need.

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