Do Audio Hobbyists Commonly Fail to Fully Utilize Their Systems?

As have many others, I would say people’s listening rooms. Not many of us can do anything about it’s dimensions, which is a damn shame. I’d love to have a bigger one (room, that is ).

And while not wishing to be judgmental, I see many systems whose monetary value far exceeds the value of the owner's music library, which I don’t approve of. No offense intended.

My son walked in our living room and said (in front of his mother), "Dad! You've designed this room entirely around the stereo!" "Come on (I feigned denial) that's ridiculous!" Wink Wink....Since I live in a 30 ft yurt, the walls are fabric. 15 ft ceiling at peak. My listening chair is positioned in the middle of the circle house. My speakers are 12 ft apart, and 14 ft from me. Above the level of the Klipsch Lascalas sits a large curved screen at the top of the wall between the speakers and above my components. Turntable on a suspension platform to the left side, sub on the isoacoustics sub stand to the right. Imaging is incredible if recording is done well.I've built angled walls 7 ft tall narrowing toward my sweet spot leaving a straight wall behind my chair 3 ft and extending to my right and left 6 ft. To the right and left of both speakers there's an open walkway of 5 ft. Sorry need pictures. I'll work on it. 

My son walked in our living room and said (in front of his mother), "Dad! You've designed this room entirely around the stereo!" "Come on (I feigned denial) that's ridiculous!" Wink Wink....Since I live in a 30 ft yurt, the walls are fabric. 15 ft ceiling at peak. My listening chair is positioned in the middle of the circle house. My speakers are 12 ft apart, and 14 ft from me. Above the level of the Klipsch Lascalas sits a large curved screen at the top of the wall between the speakers and above my components. Turntable on a suspension platform to the left side, sub on the isoacoustics sub stand to the right. Imaging is incredible if recording is done well.I've built angled walls 7 ft tall narrowing toward my sweet spot leaving a straight wall behind my chair 3 ft and extending to my right and left 6 ft. To the right and left of both speakers there's an open walkway of 5 ft. Sorry need pictures. I'll work on it. 

You live in a yurt??!

Your cool factor just went way up!

terry9

Thank you for posting that, I had the chart but not the article; I do not want to hijack the OPs thread. My biggest problem is that I have a fixed ceiling height at 8', the room is in my basement, and that's not changing.....so going into it, I know I've got issues.

Now in most things I've read, volume can help cure quite a few ills, and here I've got some room. The maximum dimensions I could have are 8'H x 18'W x 22'D, that gives me a 1 x 2.25 x 2.75 ratio; and a total volume of 3,168 cubic feet. Not a cube, not any room killing multiples....but nowhere near Sepmeyer, Bolt, Golden Ratio, etc. dimensions