Building a dedicated listening room
I asking for advice/help with building a dedicated listening room. Please chime in if you have built such a room, have any experience listening to music in a dedicated room, or just your thoughts on the matter.
My wife and I are just in the planning stages of our new home. Our new home will have a dedicated listening room to accommodate my audio hobby. For me it is a dream come true and a chance to address maybe the most important component of my system…the room. The dimension are based the Golden Ratio, 11’h x 17.5’w x 28’l. I have spent many hours researching building methods and I have had the luxury of listening to music in a few dedicated rooms. Some of these rooms cost well over 100 grand. I am sorry to say they sounded dull and two of the owners agree. Yes, these rooms were very quiet and the imaging was stable but the sound lacked rhythm and drive almost as if the music had been sucked out of the music. I did read and watch the videos about Robert Harley’s experience building his room using the ASC ISO Wall method but I am not sure if this is the best method to achieving a good sounding room. This is an important discussion because once the room is built and if I am disappointed with the sound it will be expensive to fix.
This is an older article on @mikelavigne ’s amazing listening room, which has continued to evolve (as has his system). I don’t know it there are any more recent articles. I haven’t been to it, but it and Robert Harley’s rooms certainly must be two of the best in-home rooms out there. Enviable! I wish you luck, and I hope to do this someday, if more modestly.
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Thanks for not minding me tagging you, @mikelavigne ! I know your room has been an evolution. It would be great if a magazine updated a story on it, bringing it to the present...an article that chronicles the evolution. I was hoping you would do what you did, and chime in! You are a mensch. Cheers, Pat |
