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[Infiniteloop]

Well..... Probably the biggest change to my HiFi experience to date is about to befall me. Mrs Loop has expressed a desire to move house and I agree we should move to somewhere more suited to horsey pursuits.

This leaves me with an exciting prospect: Usually, I haven't considered how the HiFi will sound when house-hunting, but it is clear that rooms have a massive effect on SQ. It means that I will be viewing houses from a different perspective to many people (Mrs Loop included!).

It's going to be an interesting ride......

 

[Covenanter]

Get her a stable block in return for a hifi block!

Chris

 

[Vladimir]

As long as it's a rectangular format room you'll be fine.

 

[Macspur]

Keep us in the loop and no horsing about!

Mac

www.macsmusic.blogbubble.net

 

[Leeps]

As long as it's a rectangular format room you'll be fine.

That's not been my experience at all Vlad. My former place was a very old house with no straight lines and numerous different shapes and angles in the ceiling. Acoustically it was fantastic. No bass boom at all even though the room wasn't especially big. But my larger rectangular room suffers all shorts of reflections and it's been a nightmare to get the bass right (even with my AVR's room equalisation).

I really need some sort of room treatment, despite having a thick carpet and thick curtains, there's still a world of reflections. It reminds me of some of the principles of speaker design; many of the more expensive designs try to avoid parallel surfaces with curves and angles.

I think you're far more technically astute than me Vlad, I'm no acoustic engineer, I'm just saying rectangular hasn't worked for me particularly well.

 

[DocG]

As long as it's a rectangular format room you'll be fine.

I would go for a big, pentagonal room, with a sloped ceiling. Then have it acoustically treated for even reverberation times across the frequency range.

Spend some money! It will make her feel less guilty about her stable budget!

 

[jonathanRD]

House must be detached with an separate room for the hifi - ie seperate to the main living room.

And/or ideally the room will be in a position where the sound cannot be heard by those watching telly or sleeping *music2*

 

[Vladimir]

Rectangular wont be perfect by any means. Asymmetric room would be great but most rooms are just rect. or square.

 

[DocG]

House must be detached with an separate room for the hifi - ie seperate to the main living room.

And/or ideally the room will be in a position where the sound cannot be heard by those watching telly or sleeping *music2*

Yes, or decouple the room from the rest of the house (with a box-in-the-box construction). I once visited a cardiologist's house, where this was done for the music room (where the piano was)... Officially, it was for professional use... Yeah right!

 

[Infiniteloop]

First viewing tomorrow morning. - Will keep you posted.....