Hi Sweetie. Our house is an average NZ size, about 195 square metres. Our daughter is 12 and will likely be home for another 10 years. That leaves us one spare bedroom, which we use. Otherwise there’s the garage next to the office / music room, that has the laundry and our little pool table area and not that suited as an office.
The use of the office with the music space will work fine and can be fine tuned as I work less. We are away this week and when I get back I might change my large work desk for the smaller one I moved out and take out a small cabinet, just to limit the furniture as much as I can.
I have had another go at the room configuration, moving out the large desk and using the smaller desk in the right back corner. This frees up more space around the speakers and I’ve a nice immersive soundstage enveloping the room.
I even have a spare spot for the TT now, but it will move to the Fraim Lite when it arrives - this will go where the NDX2 is, as far away from the speaker as the SL speaker cable to the left speaker will allow.
That’s great news. It’s surely good to have some clear space around the speakers for optimal results although there will be limitations especially with smaller rooms where speakers will be closer to the furnitures, equipment rack and/or walls.
Thanks. I’ve just ordered a matching footrest to go with the coach.
It does sound very good, but it did in the large room too. The main difference I would describe is being more immersed within the soundstage - like you are in the music. And movies are like full surround sound.
The bass was sounding a bit muddy. I found the Superlumina and Burndy were touching . Tidied that up a bit and it’s much better. Really need that rack though…
It’s all looking great at the moment… well laid out.
I’ve noticed a reasonable gap though to the right of the sofa… looks like you may need to buy a drinks cabinet to fill it. If so, weight it down with a few decent bottles of single malt (or spirit of choice)
Ah yes, but I’d then be back where I started in the lounge without a dedicated listening room. I’ve have found the setup in the smaller room to perform better than how it did in the larger lounge where I can’t really play with the layout and furniture because it’s the centre of our home. It’s swings and roundabouts to some extent.