Treated listening room

[Ciel_Rouge]

You know the story - you try to listen on your speakers but:

- you are getting distracting noises from the environment all the time
- your family/neighbours do not share your passion for that powerful symphonic sound
- you discover that good speakers etc. are rather expensive

So you end up listening on cans or a DAP and buds just like I do

Still, maybe the problem is partly due to lack of accoustic isolation? How about treating a normal room for listening purposes? Also, I am simply curious - could the happy owners of a separate, treated listening room share their experiences in this thread? And what do you think about the example provided below - does the odd shape of the top part of the room actually change anything acoustically?

[Que]

Kind of a listening "bunker", if you ask me.

I rather look out of the window when listening, or make my morning coffee.

Q

[The new erato]

And what do you think about the example provided below - does the odd shape of the top part of the room actually change anything acoustically?

These are "bass traps", for reducing standing wave problems in the low frequencies. They can be built into any corner, this solution seems rather neat. And done right, these traps do work and can tighten up bass response considerable, given you have the kind ofspeakers where this might be a problem. Oddly enough, a pair of Quad electrostatics which seems to be used here, are NOT the kind of speakers where this kind of problem should be of prime importance though.

[Kuhlau]

Kind of a listening "bunker", if you ask me.

I rather look out of the window when listening, or make my morning coffee.

Q

Here, here.

FK

(Nice room, though.)

[mahler10th]

Kind of a listening "bunker", if you ask me.
I rather look out of the window when listening, or make my morning coffee.
Q

Yes.  It's way too sterile to enjoy whatever spontinaitey and creative drive the playing work may have, some cerebal dynamics are lost and about the only thing I'd do in a room like that is put a beer fridge in the corner and post giant pictures of Sibelius, Mahler, Rautavaara and the like around it....A big screen between the speakers might rekindle cerebal activity with a landscape of silent pictures / movies that one personally associates with the music being played, and a waiter in the corner to dim the lights and open my beer...

I think if one is willing to invest in top musical technology in earbuds, etc, there is no need to create a room like this for 'listening pleasure'.  But for serious listeners and hands on musicians, a 'Music Room' is a must.

[Kuhlau]

I'm still a sucker for a good set of cans. While I've had the pleasure of listening (or should that be 'experiencing'?) great music on good-quality hifi equipment, there's something about the intimacy of headphones which appeals to me so much more. Not very social, mind.

FK

[prémont]

Probably good sound, but most depressing surroundings. Better to turn off the light when listening.

[Ciel_Rouge]

Well, I'm actually curious about things like air flow and air conditioning in such rooms. While they are isolated accoustically, this may actually make the airflow and air conditioning harder to apply. What do you think?