Listening Room

Listen, a good stereo is a good stereo even if you listen in another room- and it’s really good when it sounds good in another room. More often than not, I’m listening from my kitchen or my front porch or over supper in our dining room and not a fussy, dedicated little chair to obsess or drive myself crazy in. My stereo is great and I very well know it. I bought it and I put it together. I’m listening to music and I suggest everyone else should put some of this entitled little anal chair energy into just listening to the music.

If that’s how you’re listening, you can call it whatever you want but you’re listening to equipment.

All that said, I look forward to getting myself a hot small system 'Listening Room' at some point soon in my retirement, but again, I'm going to be doing other things while playing music so it's more of a 'me space' for naps, my tchotchkes and art than an Audio Laboratory. 

unreceivedogma

@gents I have a chair in the sweet spot. I move my head even a few inches left or right, the sound changes. I do not “do other stuff” while I listen. That’s not listening, and it’s a waste, imho, of the investment in both time and money. If you wanna listen while you are cooking or repairing the car, get a cheap Bose Bluetooth system. Sorry, dude.

Well, besides not getting a friendly of point of view, I see you’re not big on the conversational skills. I didn’t spend any of that money over the last few decades to listen to equipment - the equipment serves me. And I can’t find a good reason why I’d spend time enslaved to a seat waiting to see what tricks a CD might hold in order to congratulate myself on my (subjective) aural brilliance. I spent that money to enjoy some music in my home, where I happen to do a lot of stuff and enjoy some quality of life - all at once sometimes. You want to sit in front of the stereo monitoring your head movements, dude, do what you will with your life and money. Having lived a little bit, I have to say it doesn’t sound like value or fun.

By the way, do you keep logs on exactly which head and neck movements give you the best soundstage?

immatthewj

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05-28-2024 at 06:43pm 

But when I am back there, there are no distractions and I am listening, not doing anything else. A room that small is an imperfect environment, and had I known the limitations, I might not have moved back there, no matter how pissed off I was at the time. I listen at very near field and it gets loud quick; I learned early on back there that in a room that small, earbleed levels get fatiguing fast. I have only played the Lou Reed Rock And Roll Animal one time back there, and that was when I first made the move

As I mentioned in one of those posts, I've always wanted to work out a really cool little system. A place for quiet listening. A five or 10 Watt tube rig, a couple of small spectacular monitors...otherwise, I love my big rig and my high wattage and a (very) occasional date with Black Sabbath or Little Richard.