The perfect listening room...?

For me this rates as the best I´ve seen so far.
Bass Horns built-in, as part of the room, door in between them, what else can I say?
I´ve shown this to my wife, suggesting we could do the same in the wall my speakers are set against.
She thinks there´s no hope for me.

this is very interesting, im currently in the market of buying a new stero but the room its going in is a mess, table in the middle ect..i dont have much choice as its not my house but im wondering how much difference to sound rearranging furniture makes?

Not that doesn't look cool and all but with out sitting your ass in front of those drivers how do you know you would like the sound? Or is this a case of it cost so damn much I must like it?

And since no where else I ever saw looked like this why is this a goal to shoot for??

Just Questiions from a guy stuck in the worst damn living room I can imagine for what I want to do with it.

Seems like the bass would be way behind time wise.

A good point you raise here, Mark.

The speakers , with the exception of the 12 bass drivers , are from Onken. Think Altec in an even more refined way. How would I know I like the sound? Well, I´ve not heard these particular ones, but I´ve heard other Onken multi-cell horns and compression drivers, and, man, are they good.

Anyway, the title of my first post was "The perfect listening room", not the perfect system, my intention being to show what many of us can only aspire to, i.e. a really dedicated listening room, so much so, that even the walls were part of the stereo system.

I´m sorry if I gave you the idea of being a snobish ###### for sharing my dreams here, for this is just what it is, my type of dream listening room.

Jorge

Hey Jorge,
you're not a snob. You're just a dreamer (like most of us).

It would be, indeed, if there wasn´t any time delay compensation in the active crossover feeding the sole SS MacIntosh power amp driving the woofers.

This system is in the south of France, and the man seems to know his business. He has built his own tube power amps, and one can only drool when reading about his "La Platine Verdier" TT, with SME 3012 / Ortofon SPU combination, and all the trouble he´s gone into to replace the motor with a Papst unit.

Is the system any good? I don´t know, but if I had to risk a guess, I´d say probably better than average.

Jorge

HiFi I didn't mean to infer you were being snobish.

And I chose this house I knew what I would be infor when I bought it in 1988. Of course I didn't have the stereo system I have now then LOL

If I could make any one huge change to this house it would be to add a full basement. But since the water table in this part of Oregon is about 2" above my front side walk most of the winter a Basement would not be dry for very long. BUT a listening room would be nice. Along with a Darkroom, and an Indoor shooting range.

It sure is an impressive looking room for sure. I'd love to hear something like that someday. Maybe in summer plays lots of bass heavy music and doesn't have to turn on a fan


I just looked closer at the picture. It looks like the owner has a smirk on his face that says "Watch me blow the leather coat off that old Geezer standing there "

huh. the perfect listening room... this, perhaps?

I wish my little studio was bigger and more comfortable as it would have to be the best room of it's kind I have been in at anyone's home... well, for my ears anyway.

The walls were filled with cotton/wool blend sound insulation (recovered from a demolished commercial recording studio) before they were sheeted up then the inside is lined with convoluted foam, most of which is actually audio grade. The floor is concrete slab and above the ceiling is one layer of sound wool and then two layers of R4 fiberglass insulation. The room is *almost* dead now. I still have a small part of the the ceiling to line and I will be doing that any day now but as it is, you clap your hands in there and there's no discernible reverb. I have lined the door but it's a standard interior door and I will be replacing that with an exterior solid door as well. The door is the one point of failure for sound penetration.

Originally it was designed as a cool, quiet place for me to escape the kids and study or work. The bonus was noise form the inside also didn't bother the rest of the house so I could work in there late at night (I periodically do on-call work) with some music playing. When I started to get the bug to record again, after being away from making music for over ten years, the room just needed lining with something to deaden the sound.

Anyway, it's a great little escape for me and the sound in there, originally with the JBL monitors and now with the Behringers, is pretty damned good. The Mirages, however, will remain in the lounge area, with all of it's glass and concrete.


EDIT: just by the way, I have seen this product demonstrated:

http://www.acoustica.com.au/quietwave.html

...if you are building a room for sound and want to both limit the sound escaping and remove disturbances from outside, this is the stuff! It really is amazing!

This post has been edited by marcz on January 30, 2009 08:43 pm

Huh? I'm just waiting for the wife to go out of town so I can hang multiple layers of heavy drapes over the front windows and then go to work stapling all the egg cartons I've been hoarding over every flat surface in the room

Be careful not to overdo it.

Sounds to me like you´re trying to build yourself some sort of anechoic chamber. Those are great for speaker manufacturers to develop their products, but they will sound flat and lifeless to most people.

Since you are at it, consider also covering your floor with thick carpeting ot cork sheets.

Have fun and enjoy. I´d love to know what you think when you´re through.

Jorge