Listening for the last time.

Pez · « **on:** 19 Mar 2012, 02:29 pm »

Ya I know, dramatic title, but that's what it feels like. I am listening to 'Golden Boy' by Natalie Merchant which I have decided is the last song I'll listen to on my current setup. We are in the process of moving! Great part is my new house I'm going to build a dedicated audio room. The hard part of this is that I have put so much time and effort to getting a terrible room sounding really amazing. All the room treatment, and equipment upgrades was just insane. And now I'm ripping years worth of work down in a matter of hours. Something very sad about that. Any of you guys experience this? I know my new room will be amazing, but I mourn this setup.

Ethan Winer · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 04:17 pm »

Your new dedicated room will have a better size and shape than your current room, and you can (I assume) re-use all your treatment. So it can only be even better, no?

--Ethan

Pez · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 06:48 pm »

Absolutely. It's just that my new room will take a while to build.

PDR · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 07:28 pm »

Absence makes the heart grow fonder....

Absinthe helps you get thru the down time......

Daedalus Audio · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 07:59 pm »

great news! congrats on the house and the new audio room! will it be ready by RMAF? would love to see what you've done.
best,
lou

JLM · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 08:36 pm »

Headphones to the rescue! That's what I did for 2 years in college. Mybe that's why I have no interest in them now.

Rclark · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 10:08 pm »

Quote from: PDR on 19 Mar 2012, 07:28 pm

Absence makes the heart grow fonder....

Absinthe helps you get thru the down time......

where can you get good absinthe, the real stuff? I've never tried it.

JohnR · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 10:16 pm »

Hey, it's an opportunity! This time you can measure scientifically decide what to place where. In fact, if you are building the room, why not make the walls so as to remove first reflections entirely?

medium jim · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 Mar 2012, 10:22 pm »

Quote from: JohnR on 19 Mar 2012, 10:16 pm

Hey, it's an opportunity! This time you can measure scientifically decide what to place where. In fact, if you are building the room, why not make the walls so as to remove first reflections entirely?

John:

I have clutter in my room at the appropriate places to eliminate the first reflections, otherwise my room would be untenable. I agree, look at the new dedicated listening room as a step forward!

Jim

Pez · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 01:29 pm »

Thanks guys. Yes I most definately see a new room as a HUGE opportunity. It's odd I just took down all my room treatments in the old setup and the room sounds so bizarre. Echoey and loud. Any way packed all my equipment. It's all at the new house except the speakers which the movers ate going to move today.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 01:57 pm »

Pez, excited for you. Can you/will you describe your new room to be?

Tyson · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 04:08 pm »

Nothing beats a quiet room. Rooms with all hard surfaces and/or high ambient noise are just less comfortable to be in, let alone listen to music in.

Having helped somewhat with Pez's current room, I'm kinda sad too......

Ericus Rex · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 08:54 pm »

We bought a fixer-upper last Sept so I know the feeling. On all my prior moves the stereo was the last thing to come down and the first thing to be set up with tunage throughout the whole process. Not so this time. I have my own MANCAVE but with the house needing so many other repairs all my time is spent on other rooms in the house. Doing major remods to my 'cave before getting the baby's room done would send lightning bolts raining down on me from above (my wife). So, I'm very sad to say that my rig hasn't been hooked up in over 6 months now. My cave will be great when it's done. I just hope I still have my hearing when I can finally get around to it....

Don't let this happen to you, Pez!

macrojack · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 Mar 2012, 10:03 pm »

Don't waste precious energy mourning the old room when you know the new one will be much better. You can't move forward while holding onto something behind you.

Besides it seems to me from reading your posts that you and Tyson really dig the process.

jriggy · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 Mar 2012, 02:44 pm »

I understand where you are coming from Pez.
I am starting a large attic remodel very soon and, for me, its the question of what aspects I will loose with the room I am in now that I might not gain in the new dedicated space... a silly thought, I know, since all aspects should be better, but it's the unknow. What will a system that was designed in one type of room be like in a completely different room? Will my gear choices still be what I want? I certainly hope so, because after this build, buying gear will be O U T for a while!

But unlike you, my system can stay up until the new space is complete

Pez · « **Reply #15 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 04:23 am »

Hey guys, been very busy. Lou yes the room will be ready for RMAF. The room dimensions as it stands are going to be 8x15x22. Bryan Pape is kind enough to give me help with the room dimensions as well as some other suggestions. It's going to be a few weeks before I get it done, but on the plus side I have setup the home theater in the family room

5.1 surround all JBL LS360C and surprisingly they sound pretty darn good! They aren't the kind of in walls that just throw the back wave into the ceiling and drywall, they actually are in an enclosure!

and a decent JBL 12" powered sub. Mounted the 51" Samsung LCD above the fireplace and it looks clean! I'll post pics when I can.

Rclark · « **Reply #16 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 06:25 am »

Pez... PLEASE take mad pics and document the new room build. There isn't enough of that stuff here.

FullRangeMan · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 06:44 am »

Quote from: Pez on 19 Mar 2012, 02:29 pm

Ya I know, dramatic title, but that's what it feels like. I am listening to 'Golden Boy' by Natalie Merchant which I have decided is the last song I'll listen to on my current setup. We are in the process of moving! Great part is my new house I'm going to build a dedicated audio room. The hard part of this is that I have put so much time and effort to getting a terrible room sounding really amazing. All the room treatment, and equipment upgrades was just insane. And now I'm ripping years worth of work down in a matter of hours. Something very sad about that. Any of you guys experience this? I know my new room will be amazing, but I mourn this setup.

Unfortunately I suffer it in 31Mar1993 around 14h00, when I left a nice room, for a smaller one.
Beside I hate moving, downsizing is a very frustranting experience.

Rclark · « **Reply #18 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:34 am »

Nobody LIKES moving unless they just won the lottery.

PeteG · « **Reply #19 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 04:58 pm »

Congrats on the new home, moving can be a PITA but after the smoke clears its well worth it. We need Pictures when your room is done.