How's this for a listening room?

Posted by Skye (A) on May 11, 2012 at 10:20:40

Some of you may recall I asked for guidance on purchasing a place to live with a suitable listening room.

Well, I found a place. Neighborhood is fantastic, condition is good, and I feel I could live there for 8+ years. There is a pair of broadcasting towers 4.5 miles away, is this an issue?

The master bedroom is 15' long by 10'10 wide, with a sloped ceiling that is 8' tall at the front and 10'4 at the back. Side walls are perfectly symmetrical. There is one large window in the middle of the front wall, which I could cover with mdf and absorption. The rear wall of the room is taken up with accordion style wooden closet doors and the doorway to the room in the back corner. So no bass trap in that corner. =(

No fancy outlets, no angled walls, and the width concerns me. But at least the side walls are symmetrical, there is only one window to control, the front two corners are intact for bass traps, and the sloping ceiling is a plus.

My inexperienced eye gives it a 6.5/10, and since all the other places I've looked at rate a 3/10 or lower, this seems like a step in the right direction.

How do you rate a room like this for listening? What concerns you about it? What attributes that is has do you find most significant, and what attributes that it is lacking do you find most significant?

Thanks!

On the other hand, you have five fingers.

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Topic - How's this for a listening room? - Skye 10:20:40 05/11/12 (26)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - casouza 19:09:50 05/17/12 (4)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Skye 19:57:08 05/17/12 (3)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - casouza 20:32:52 05/17/12 (2)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Skye 20:42:41 05/17/12 (1)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - casouza 23:15:32 05/17/12 (0)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Peter Breuninger 15:27:05 05/13/12 (2)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Skye 17:00:06 05/13/12 (1)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Brian Walsh 17:46:02 05/13/12 (0)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Rob Doorack 09:21:43 05/13/12 (1)

Home details - Skye 14:40:54 05/13/12 (0)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - tmsorosk 05:04:30 05/13/12 (0)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Disbeliever 03:03:45 05/13/12 (0)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Jim Smith 10:52:29 05/12/12 (2)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Skye 00:50:33 05/13/12 (1)

RE: How's this for a listening room? - Jim Smith 14:36:59 05/13/12 (0)

Here's a solution - Ozzie 05:16:55 05/12/12 (0)

Only you can decide, however ... - three_sox 23:51:41 05/11/12 (1)

RE: Only you can decide, however ... - Skye 07:28:26 05/12/12 (0)

Room Modes - Skye 10:37:12 05/11/12 (7)

RE: Room Modes - josh358 19:25:12 05/11/12 (0)

RE: Room Modes - Analog Scott 11:05:25 05/11/12 (5)

RE: Room Modes - Analog Scott 19:04:37 05/11/12 (0)

RE: Room Modes - Skye 11:07:05 05/11/12 (3)

"How do you calculate with a slanted ceiling?" ... - andyr 18:45:48 05/11/12 (1)

RE: "How do you calculate with a slanted ceiling?" ... - Skye 07:33:09 05/12/12 (0)

RE: Room Modes - bjamz 18:34:56 05/11/12 (0)

How's this for a listening room?

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