SHOW US your listening room )

[dualazmak]

Ref. my post here #95...
This is one of the eight (8) HiRes (6720x4480 pixel) photos of my disk shelves; each of the similar eight (8) shelves contains about 450 CDs (SACDs DVDs), i.e. total about 3,600 physical disks. I used my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR camera + EF24-105mm F4L IS II USM lens, and shot photos with tripod and cable-release on live-view mode with very careful manual focusing and exposure control in ISO 2500, f/11-13.

When I enlarge on-screen the red-rectangular portion of above original HiRes photo, it can be seen like this for easy reading of the smallest fonts/characters of CD catalogue numbers.

 

[dualazmak]

Sorry to be out of the scope of this exciting thread, but...

All of you onboard this thread are cordially invited to my hosting thread for your review and participation.
Let's share diagrams (and photos) of our total physical audio system and the whole signal path, with a few words and/or links

 

[DWPress]

I don't think anyone can be on ASR for a week and not be redirected to dualazmak's sub domain....

 

[JRowland]

Thor enjoying the new ART

 

[rdenney]

Nice lava lamp. But shouldn’t the center channel speaker be under the display?

Rick “the lava lamp would go well with a 21” Trinitron TV ” Denney

 

[JRowland]

Nice lava lamp. But shouldn’t the center channel speaker be under the display?

Rick “the lava lamp would go well with a 21” Trinitron TV ” Denney

Thanks, the lava lamps remind me of my youth, and Spencer Gifts, and malls. If I cared much about the TV I’d probably figure out a centering solution. Luckily for me the view out the window is much better than anything on that box.

Display is the perfect term for my use. It’s a listening room, sometimes with sports on the display in the background.

 

[JayGilb]

Thor enjoying the new ART

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Nice room. Looks like a chill place to enjoy your music.

 

[dan_uk]

My odd-shaped room is no good with some types of speaker but horns excel. There are also a couple of REL S812 subs (each with twin 12" drivers) but they make virtually no improvement to the bass so will be sold soon. I really don't need 8 12" drivers in total!

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Very nice. Where are u based and have u sold the RELs yet?

 

[daniboun]

My odd-shaped room is no good with some types of speaker but horns excel. There are also a couple of REL S812 subs (each with twin 12" drivers) but they make virtually no improvement to the bass so will be sold soon. I really don't need 8 12" drivers in total!

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Incredible! What a beautiful panoramic view, and I imagine it must be incredibly bright in the summer. Lovely layout and a very nice apartment too.

 

[pinger]

Some great rooms here! This is my simple listening room (spare bedroom repurposed) . Nothing fancy but works for me (Townhouse in Fla)

 

[Keith_W]

Incredible! What a beautiful panoramic view, and I imagine it must be incredibly bright in the summer. Lovely layout and a very nice apartment too.

And nice taste in furniture. I spot a Richard Sapper Tizio lamp.

 

[daniboun]

And nice taste in furniture. I spot a Richard Sapper Tizio lamp.

What really struck me was this lol ) I imagine it's a work of art, but it made me think > It's the power slap, spanking version.

 

[Shiva]

late afternoon sun....

 

[Mort]

late afternoon sun....

Nice monstera. I like speakers with plants.

 

[JayGilb]

Nice monstera. I like speakers with plants.

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I love eclectically decorated rooms.

 

[Sjkrabbe]

Our listening room and setup seen from my listening position. A very small room even though its the biggest one in our apartment

 

[Hear Here]

And nice taste in furniture. I spot a Richard Sapper Tizio lamp.

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Yes, a bit of a rarity and such a clever design that uses the bars to carry the voltage to the lamp head - no wires.

I also have a Flos Arco floor lamp (sadly a Chinese copy) with a 200 lb marble base

 

[olds1959special]

I have been playing with all the ways I could adjust and experiment with my "Hafler circuit" ambience recovery LCR+rear setup. I really wanted to get the most sound out of the center speaker on my desk so I turned down the gain trims on the other speakers. I also turned down the midrange adjustment on the L/R because I felt the position of the front center speaker on the desk was adding too much of those frequencies. I added an additional center speaker under the desk (with the bass trim turned down all the way) on top of a small un-ported front-firing 8" subwoofer, with the LPF at 80 Hz. There are 12" subwoofers on the left and right side for "directional bass" based on the "auditory envelopment" concept. The rear setup is the ambience recovery channel and it is full-range including a subwoofer crossed over at 80 Hz. The front L/R speakers and subs are crossed over at 80 Hz too. Some additional details: to avoid clipping in the rear channels I turned down the L and R input channels going to the rear outputs by -3 (one goes to the subwoofer and the other to the satellites - although I left the subwoofer channel alone so the auto-on works properly and since there is less volume due to the LPF). Also there is a 10ms delay on the rears. Lastly I put an LM4562NA in the Aiyima A70 mono amp powering the center speaker. I don't use any treble boosting anywhere. I haven't measured with an RTA yet, but what I like about how it's set up now is the amount of detail I'm getting from the center mono speaker. It's really nice. Some have said this setup destroys the stereo image but I'm a big fan of the center mono speaker as the anchor for everything and the tweeter in the middle is a single point source. It's balanced between all the speakers, with the fronts being louder than the rears by about 6dB. The single tweeter in the center speaker is directly in front of me aiming at my chest and it contains the combined L/R information. This feels like a "single center source point" for the highs, which I like. I use stereo recordings to make this work fully. The rear ambience recovery channels don't play anything if it's mono. Mono just plays LCR which is okay too. A mono center fill channel is not a bad thing and it doesn't remove all the stereo panning since the L/R are still there.

 

[daniboun]

Thanks, the lava lamps remind me of my youth, and Spencer Gifts, and malls. If I cared much about the TV I’d probably figure out a centering solution. Luckily for me the view out the window is much better than anything on that box.

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Display is the perfect term for my use. It’s a listening room, sometimes with sports on the display in the background.

It looks very much like our landscapes in France. Unless it's in France lol

 

[rgpit]