How many of you are satisfied with your space?

[Chrispy]

Not me.

Listen to the airflow and use a handheld to hear and communicate with other pilots and check airport weather.

Kinda what I thought, when I mountain bike I don't want other than what I'm experiencing.

 

[xanalog]

Kinda what I thought, when I mountain bike I don't want other than what I'm experiencing.

Same holds true for motorcycling; as music takes you away from matters-at-hand and in skiing; music tempo messes with cadence. [ymmv]

 

[Waxx]

I live in a a part of a very old (former fortified) farm complex, so very thick ceramic brick walls and old stone floors. My main listening space is 4x8x2.3m roughly, and needed a carpet to damp the reflection of the floor, but for the rest the room sounds ok, nothing i can't fix with eq (no dirac or so). it's not perfext, but it's quiet ok for the relative small space i got.

 

[xanalog]

My main listening space is 4x8x2.3m roughly,

Smaller spaces are more cost effective and better for WAF.
It prevents any potential conflicts about the size of your main speakers and cost of your amplifier!
Lest you start contemplating multi-channel provisions and inve$tment$.

 

[Waxx]

Smaller spaces are more cost effective and better for WAF.
It prevents any potential conflicts about the size of your main speakers and cost of your amplifier!
Lest you start contemplating multi-channel provisions and inve$tment$.

I don't have that problem, I live alone and my girlfriend (who lives a few villages away) owns a pair of JBL 4367"s for her living room. And we both are not into multichannel or HT. Strictly stereo or even mono music.

 

[blueone]

To me it seems that there is a huge gap between the first option ("Very and fortunate...") in the poll and the other options. I think this should be reworked.

I think the answer distribution is related to the likely income distribution of the forum members. It wouldn't surprise me if 75% or more of the membership was in the top 20% of the income or wealth distribution of their respective countries, generally required for larger listening spaces.

 

[xanalog]

I think the answer distribution is related to the likely income distribution of the forum members. It wouldn't surprise me if 75% or more of the membership was in the top 20% of the income or wealth distribution of their respective countries, generally required for larger listening spaces.

Stats aside, music (not hardware complement) appreciation has never been in conflict (or in agreement) with income or wealth distribution.

 

[Mart68]

I think the answer distribution is related to the likely income distribution of the forum members. It wouldn't surprise me if 75% or more of the membership was in the top 20% of the income or wealth distribution of their respective countries, generally required for larger listening spaces.

Lol I wish. If that were true I'd be typing this in my larger listening space in the Cayman Islands.

 

[Somafunk]

I think the answer distribution is related to the likely income distribution of the forum members. It wouldn't surprise me if 75% or more of the membership was in the top 20% of the income or wealth distribution of their respective countries, generally required for larger listening spaces.

Place me in the very bottom 1% then,

 

[bumblebee657]

I don't see the connection between the size of a listening space and the satisfaction. It's like people assume that nearfield listening cannot provide the same listening experience / sound quality than a big setup and listening in the midfield / farfield. I would rather say the opposite is true and it doesn't take a fortune to get first class sound.

 

[blueone]

I don't see the connection between the size of a listening space and the satisfaction. It's like people assume that nearfield listening cannot provide the same listening experience / sound quality than a big setup and listening in the midfield / farfield. I would rather say the opposite is true and it doesn't take a fortune to get first class sound.

As with many things involving human perception, there aren't any absolutes. Having had, over the decades, both very large listening rooms and rather small ones, and some in-between, I can say I definitely prefer large rooms over small rooms. However, my desktop system based on my M4 Mac Mini, a pair of Audioengine A5+ powered speakers (2013 vintage) and a single SVS SB1000 sub (also from 2013) and some very careful EQ, choice of the crossover strategy to the sub, and sub placement, also provides a surprisingly good listening experience for less money than just the Benchmark Media DAC3L in my primary audio-only system cost me. It's amusing how most people who hear it are more surprised by the desktop system more than they are when hearing the big-room high-priced audio system. Perhaps because they expect the big impressive system in a big room to sound impressive, and most desktop systems really don't sound very good for one reason or another, so they are more surprised by the smaller set-up.

For several years I had a work apartment in California, and the desktop system was my primary entertainment provider. Together with the Mac Thunderbolt 27" display I still use (it takes a dongle on the M4 Mac), I watched many movies on it and enjoyed them.

I agree, you don't need an 8000 cubic feet listening room and a $35,000 system to really enjoy yourself.

 

[MattHooper]

Having had, over the decades, both very large listening rooms and rather small ones, and some in-between, I can say I definitely prefer large rooms over small rooms.

Fair enough.

I think I probably have a bias towards the type of room that I’m used to listening in.
Just in terms of feel and aesthetics I like my 13 x 15’ room because it feels cozy and comfy. If a room starts getting too big I start to feel a bit lost in it. And there’s a neat feeling of being in a small/medium size room, and feeling like the room melts away into different size spaces with different recordings.

 

[xanalog]

Fair enough.

I think I probably have a bias towards the type of room that I’m used to listening in.
Just in terms of feel and aesthetics I like my 13 x 15’ room because it feels cozy and comfy. If a room starts getting too big I start to feel a bit lost in it. And there’s a neat feeling of being in a small/medium size room, and feeling like the room melts away into different size spaces with different recordings.

Do boundary reflection/cancellation (et al.) effects become easier to manage in a medium-to-large living-room volume (not just square-footage)?