I think it's just a comfort thing. It gets used alot so you figure wear and tear. Take it to the TT doctor at the beginning and middle of the year. I assume once a year is good but I will take your advise and cut it to one. Actually, no one has ever said to me how often I should take it in so twice a year felt pretty good. But, I'm going to lean to make some of these adjustments myself. Poor table.Originally Posted by BobM
The older I get, the better I was.
More toxic than some of the crap I hear being played?
The older I get, the better I was.
So, more like a teeth cleaning than a colonoscopy?
Just glad the dentists knows the difference.
The older I get, the better I was.
I'm glad proctologists do too.
Here are some pix of my current listening room.
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The room is carpeted and has acoustic tiles on the ceiling. Dimensions are approximately 7.5'x12'x16'.
I've had the bookshelf holding the LPs since the late 70s. I braced the shelves with 2x4s and they have held their shape all these years. The CD cases are maple and were custom made for our old living room, where "they had to look nice". Each one holds about 750 CDs and the over flow is in a cheapo unfinished pine rack I bought at a record store many years ago.
The plan going forward is to finish a 30' x 40' area of the basement into a multipurpose area including a 2 channel listening area. The configuration is not completely determined because there are telescoping support beams that run through the room. At one time, I had hoped to carve off a section and build a room that fit the golden rule (1:1.6:2.33). The height would be a bit less than 8' so the width:length would end up being around 12':18'.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
Stan - by acoustic tile do you mean a drop ceiling or are they special acoustic tiles?
I had to crop all the pictures, so they could be uploaded.
It's a drop ceiling. There isn't any insulation above them, so the sound carries into main floor.
I want to use a lot of soundproofing in the walls and ceiling in the new room. I don't want to use a drop ceiling, so that I can keep the ceiling as high as possible. Of course it won't be level because of the cold air return ducts that run the length of the unfinished area - right down the middle! It won't be perfect, but I will do the best I can.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
You do the best you can of course. Just make sure you use sheetrock. I've seen some odd rooms. One of the guys in our audio group has an 8ft ceiling in his basement but he also has a low hanging structural beam running across the middle of the room that was sheetrocked around.
Sheetrock is pretty reflective.
My basement listening room has nine foot ceilings but a cement foundation running the perimeter of the room up to about 36" off the floor. Above that was Sheetrock. I ended up building baffles -- just 2x4 frames with fiberglass insulation inside them and colored burlap over the front -- to cover the Sheetrock and sound-deaden the echoes. Between that, and a nice Berber carpet, and some fairly-thick acoustic tiles on the ceiling, we deadened that sucker right down.
Yes it is.
Our living room is less than ideal but I'm at least four years away from redoing the basement to make it the ideal soundroom. By then I'll have gone through an equipment upgrade and moved this system into the man cave.
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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Amazing how we always end up with glass table tops in our living rooms. I begged my wife to replace our marble tables with wood ones, but nooooo we had to get glass.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
If you are going to do any critical listening when the wife isn't around, just throw a nice fluffy towel over those table tops, or over the TV screen in between the speakers. You should hear a nice improvement in soundstage.
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I just remodelled the man cave this past fall, and very happy I did. The basement has a low ceiling, and I wasn't going to dig down (though that's pretty common these days), but now I have sheetrock everywhere, carpet on the floor and long row of albums behind the couch to help soak up the sound. The sweet spot is indeed sweet now.
Not sure I could get away with larger speakers in the room.
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The room is everything.
Mind if I go through your albums
The older I get, the better I was.
What is the best floor surface? Tile, wood or carpet?
The older I get, the better I was.
There was a story online about a guy who spent well over $100K designing the ultimate room for his system. I thought I saved the link but of course, I can't find it. The owner of the room invited the conductor of the local symphony to audition the system. Conductor said, "This is what I hear standing in the hall." Oh to spend a day there with a stack of CDs.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Well in theory the perfect room is transparent- it imparts no sound or ambience on the recording. It really shouldn't require $100K to pull that off. I imagine there was a lot more going on there to justify that kind of cash outlay. You can do pretty well in most spaces with a few hundred bucks worth of treatment. But you can have a live room you like the sound of, it's just that everything you listen too will sound like it's being performed in that particular room.
I don't believe there is one right answer. The floor is just one aspect of the room and its acoustics. Lots of factors - is there subflooring? Are you on concrete? If its a hard surface in place like tile or wood you can use rugs as needed. You might not need them...all depends.
Wood is too reflective for my taste. And it is all a matter of taste.
But I will mention one more factor not yet mentioned -- basement or 2nd floor? I THOUGHT I wanted my listening room in the basement, on a concrete floor (with carpet) but I have come to miss the floor vibrations which are a big physiological element of "feeling the bass." When the floor doesn't vibrate, the bass doesn't FEEL as impressive. My next listening room will have a hollow floor.
I don't think "transparent" is the right word here, I like the word "neutral" better (but I know what you meant). A room should be neither totally anechoic (if you've ever been in an anechoic room you know why) nor should it sound like an empty basketball court. The ideal lies somewhere in between.
I'm still looking for that link. Aaaaargh.
In the meantime, Mark Bailey just posted this on FB. It appears that high-end audio is seeing a little bit of a push back against the MP3 world.
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...P=share_btn_fb
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
2nd floor, carpet over wood.
The older I get, the better I was.
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