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In Reply to: New music system room. posted by johnvb on April 8, 2007 at 12:19:32:
Thanks for all the help.After searching the archives, it appears the general consensus is to place Maggies parallel to a long wall in the room.
If I do this, one of the long walls is an exterior one, with two double hung windows. They will be treated with cellular shades and fairly heavy curtains. Would it be preferred for this wall to be behind the speakers or the listening chair?
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I just did exactly this (moved to a smaller dedicated listening room from a larger shared space living room). I started with just an amp, source and maggies in the room, and a carpet on the floor, no furniture.I fairly quickly determined that there was enough architectural interference that one direction sounded much better than the other, so it was easy to find the best walls for the speakers. Everything else flows from this initial listening observation as far as location goes.
Not that my 1.6's are very near the walls. Nearfield listening where the furniture in the small room is speakers, chair, equipment rack, wall-mounted bookshelves for diffusion and track lights. No other furniture. Working now on room treatments. But it's all MINE and the rest of the family knows enough to STAY AWAY....
Thanks, since I already have a long enough cat 5 cable in the room, to stretch the Squeezebox/amps to any spot; I'll do the same.I will have a bookcase in this room, along with a bottom cabinet and office chair that is used as a makeshift desk. So I guess this room is actually a home office/dedicated music room. Anyway I will have an excuse to go upstairs to disappear. :))
Sitting up in the "music room" with my laptop.Only problem, once the discs start spinning, no work gets done...
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