Room Dimensions are 15x17x7.5 with a concrete floor. A room was constructed within an existing room to eliminated music and sound for escaping. Sound deadening materials and 5/8th inch dry were used. One can listen to music or watch movies at any time of day or night and not disturb other household members or neighbors. The overall construction of just the room, treatments and rack took approximately 10 months of weekends and evenings. Different types and locations of room treatments were added over time. The room is wired with four dedicated 20-amp circuits with the projector totally hidden in the canister lighting soffit.
The 2-channel system is self-contained with the HT processor running through the tape loop of the Rowland pre. The REL sub is used for both 2-channel music and 5.1 movie soundtracks.
I'm a strong believer in Treating your room. Many say and I believe that the room is the single most important part of a sound system. All walls including ceiling is treated with acoustic panels as well as with room lenses.
Rowland Monoblocks recently added. Incredible improvement over my previous amp. Improvements in detail, silky smoothness with incredible power reserves. I'm pretty much done for now.
JM Labs Micro Utopia Be with Utopia stands replace Thiel CS22's.
This is very nice looking room and a/v setup; it must be a pleasure to use. Would you mind describing your DIY panel and room lens designs and the effect each had on sound? Thanks.
System edited: The room was constructed in an existing storage room that is attached to the house. The room housed a furnace and well pump with still resides in the area behind the doors. The wood stove sits physically between them separated by sheet-rock and some tile. The floor is concrete and was covered with some high quality pad and nice Berber carpet. All construction was done single-handedly. My wife did assisting in holding sheet-rock panels and final painting. I did have a contractor tape and mud which ran about $1700.00. Total cost of materials was a little over $5,000.00. The cost of the rack was about 100 bucks and all other room treatments ran about another couple hundred. Pretty much everything was purchased at Home Depot. With the exception of the one wall hanging (Sigman), couch, blinds and equipment, everything in the room was DIY. The vertical blinds did make a difference. That was the last thing added to the room. The difference in sound was not as significant as the side panels, the rear diffusors or room lenses. The blinds were added for both decorative purpose as well as sound improvement. They did seem to warm up the overall presentation a bit. I think the reason why a more significant change did not occur was because my speakers were already 48 away from the rear wall. My equipment rack was constructed out of one inch and three-quarter inch MDF, three-quarter inch all-thread and associated nuts, bolts, and washers, PVC pipe and most important bicycle inner tubes. The basic construction of the rack is very common with the exception of using one inch as opposed to three-quarter MDF. The one-inch boards are the base shelves and the all-threads hold and separate the shelves. I used PVC pipe sprayed black to cover the all-threads. I used a router to cut out an area to house the inner tubes and used a sheet of three-quarter MDF to act as a base for the components. Each component has a inner tube and an addition MDF base beneath it. Ive found that the inner tubes should be inflated with just enough air to give it sharp plus another 20% more air.
Great room. Very impressive for DIY. Few questions. Is it a basement room? What did you do with floors just a carpet over concrete? Did you do all the construction yourself? What was approximate cost of building room like this? Do those vertical blinds make any difference acoustically or they are there just for decorative purpose? Can you elaborate on the construction of your DIY Air Suspension Equipment Rack Stand? Thanks.
Screen size is 100" diagonal with a Luxus bezel. The black bezel is a black velvet called VeLux which is extreme important to conpensate for overscanning.
Although a turntable is the ultimate source in regards to sound quality, I feel the cost for one that I'd be happy with is not worth the return and again to have to go through cleaning, cartridge replacement, etc, would add to my audiophile crazyness. The way I look at it is I can buy a lot of CD's for what a nice turntable and record cleaning machine would cost. I'm sure if I demoed one and had a setup actually in my room, my feelings may be different but what you don't know won't hurt you.
