speakers for a different listening space

Posted by MontanaAndy (A) on January 16, 2015 at 14:00:45

Hello All. I'm looking to upgrade my sound. I live in a 35' geodesic dome. The dome is built of triangles interlocked in hexagons and pentagons. Its 5/8 of a sphere, and mostly open, inside. About 1/4 of the bottom floor is closed off, and the second floor is an open loft. The inside of the dome is well insulated and sheetrocked. Because there aren't many flat surfaces, the sound, inside is pretty amazing. I can be upstairs, near the rear wall of the building, and whisper, and to someone sitting on my living room couch, near 30' away, and on the first floor, it sounds, quite literally, as if I were sitting next to them! My current speakers, a pair of Laney CT-15 monitors sit on the front edge of the second floor at opposite sides of the dome (I have thought about just adding something like DCM time windows and playing both sets at once). They do a good job of filling the roughly 17,500 cubic feet of open space, inside with lovely sound. Thing is, I was spoiled by years of living with magnapans, and I miss that crystalline clarity. I had to finally give them up because I just couldn't get proper placement in this building. I'm looking for ideas on how best to get that airy transparency and clarity again. Design ideas for building or maybe some different commercially made items to try different ideas? Any thoughts?

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Topic - speakers for a different listening space - MontanaAndy 14:00:45 01/16/15 (22)

Domes - Inmate51 12:51:04 02/02/15 (1)

RE: Domes - MontanaAndy 19:32:39 02/02/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - MontanaAndy 08:43:51 01/20/15 (1)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Kythyn 11:10:15 02/02/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Duke 01:36:09 01/20/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - uncle mag 14:14:25 01/19/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - goldenthal 16:42:50 01/18/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Frihed89 00:49:55 01/17/15 (1)

Going with the flow! - genungo 09:18:40 01/19/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Garg0yle 21:05:54 01/16/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Mr Peabody 20:20:48 01/16/15 (8)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - MontanaAndy 21:24:00 01/16/15 (7)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Mr Peabody 21:38:53 01/16/15 (6)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - MontanaAndy 08:42:02 01/17/15 (5)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - samac 13:44:10 02/02/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - escape2cfc 05:33:12 01/20/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Mick Wolfe 09:49:48 01/17/15 (2)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - MontanaAndy 11:07:23 01/17/15 (1)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - Mick Wolfe 12:56:37 01/17/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - fantja 17:59:14 01/16/15 (0)

RE: speakers for a different listening space - John Elison 16:59:21 01/16/15 (0)

Omni and Poly - genungo 14:25:11 01/16/15 (0)

speakers for a different listening space

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