Marten Design

by joamonte on Ever Evolving
myroom
combin photo
with omnifuser
old-photo
ceiling teatment
Cable Jorma,Steath,Nodoust

Description

First of all, sorry for my poor English ,I do not speak English often so could not express real well unlike many of friend here.

I am a Singapore audiophile who been in this hobby for 20 years, I do not have a big room for my HiFi system from the beginning until now, so for poor guys like us we have to study hard on room acoustic in order to squeeze in big floor standing loudspeaker into the room...LOL!

Now my music room size is about 9'8" W by 13 '++ D by 8'6" H ,and to use a speaker that able to produce 20 hz to 100 Khz -2db (....OK, OK, in spec only...) loudspeaker into it, careful system/cable matching and and Room acoustic treatment is very very important....so far so good ,most of the visitor , whether like or do'nt like the sound I tuned , did not complain the sound of my system is overpower or bad or imaging/soundstage is too upfront with the help of the Diffuser and acoustic foam/fiberglass panel/bass trap.

My hope is my wife will allow me to built a bigger room in our small apartment hall for my HiFi system....
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Components Toggle details

    • Denon DVD player A1 XV (aka 5910)
    Use as CD transport and SACD/DVDA/DVDV player.
    • Sonic Frontiers SFD-2
    old but still sound good to me...very musical.
    • Acoustic solid Soild wood
    Heavy entry level Turntable from Germany
    • Rega RB-250
    with origin mod..
    • Denon DL 103R
    entry level MC cart.
    • Audio Research REF-2 mkII
    ...change with some NOS tube.
    • Lehmann Audio Black cube SE
    good thing about this is it do not take out too much space and can place very near to the turntable with my short 4" interconnect
    • Audio Research VT-150
    Enough power for my speaker in my small room...almost brought higher power , twice more power tube Ref 300 in my system once , but didnt change in the end because not willing to spend even more $$$ every year on renew the power tube...
    • Marten Design Coltrane
    Cant resist it after tried it in my room....
    • Custom make room treament... Diffuser/Abosrb panel/Bass trap
    I design the room, custom make All the room treatment product locally and install all room acoustic treatment my self.....the result from the software measurement show my very small (9' 8" X 13') room is under quite under control ,ETF RT 60 within 400-600ms and room frequency response consider quite OK without too many big peak and dip.
    • Genisis Digital Len
    WOW....transform my out-dated CD system into something that able to sound as good as the EMM lab CDSA.

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Joanmonte; it's fun to 'mess around'.

for 9 years i was in a somewhat small room (18' x 12' x 10') and for the first 5 years that i was in that room i had pieces of foam that i moved all over the room from place to place learning and experimenting to find the right balance. eventually i did find a balance that optimized the various issues. looking back it was a fun process and one i'm happy to have gone thru. in that room the music had an immersive intimacy that i loved. it has taken me a couple of years in my new larger room to find that quality that i had really valued.

enjoy the path you are on and the place you are at. large spaces have their challenges too.

and thanks for the kind comments.

mikelavigne

Joanmonte; congrats on your room. yes, it's small but you have done a fantastic job (from the pictures) to optimize it.

i applaud your choice of speakers; i cannot think of a better one for your room regardless of price. i love the Coltranes.

my guess is that you have world class immediacy and involvement.

enjoy your very special place!

mikelavigne

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