Let me start by writing that this room is the culmination of the evolution of my audio journey from the time of a "reawakening" of an old passion around the end of 2015, to where I am now. The long version is that I had assembled a decent 5.1.2 surround system in our living room. I used it more for music than movies, because I'm ADHD prone and can't sit though a movie. I did it mainly for my wife, who is a huge movie-watcher. The was a waste, she hated surround sound and (to her) the bone-shaking subwoofer. All KEF R series, and an SB2000 sub running off an NAD T758v3. The seating positions were horrible relative to the TV and surrounds too high.
Meanwhile, I was building a nice 2-channel system in my office. That got up to being LS50 Meta, a pair of KEF Kube 10b subs, and an NAD M10 streamer/amp. I even got a decent turntable in there and had 100 records in a bookcase in the living room. Problem there was that being on the 2nd floor of the 2-family home we own, my office is right over our good tenant's bedroom. She started playing some kind of "white noise" whenever I turned up the music.
In a 3rd floor guest bedroom, I had a 3rd system of various used bits to make up a 5.1 system. In late 2020, I got LS50 Meta and put my original LS50's in that room. The acoustics were better than either my office or our living room! Over a few months time, I moved the bed out and got a used chair to sit in the sweet spot. Then I moved out the tall dresser, got my son to build me a record rack. More time goes by and I sold off the R series speakers in the living room, downsizing to a passive soundbar, a pair of KEF T101 wall-mount speakers for surrounds, and moved the pair of Kube 10b subs to the living room. I also sold off the LS50 Meta and NAD M10 to fund getting KEF Reference 1 speakers. I then had my son build a 2nd record rack, then make me some long shelves to get both my turntables on one surface. Using the 4 threaded rods from my Salamander Designs Archetype 3.0 and buying two more, I then made aluminum tubes as spacers and assembled a cool audio rack. Bought the Reference 1's, later added the Luxman L-505uX Mark 2 integrated.
This year (2023) was the year to rip into the stairwell that leads to my music room, the vestibule between the two bedrooms, and them the music room itself. All of the 3rd floor of our home is still old horsehair plaster from the 1920 build date of our home. The tenant's apartment and our main floor are all drywall. I could afford to do drywall, from both an expense and a time standpoint. I stripped 35+ yr old wallpaper off the horsehair plaster, fixed a zillion holes, dents, and even big sections missing. My son built a wall with door across the vestibule to enable building in a bathroom in the future. The music room got emptied into the new storage room, and in 5 days I was done. I waited two days for new carpeting and moved back in, but 180º flipped orientation.
All I have left is to build a few acoustic panels, though the acoustics in this room are already better than any listening room at my dealer. I've added some of my photos, some of my dear brother's artwork, and a few album covers as art.
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