I am looking to buy my first home, I did a lot of trading to get to where I am during college and while living in an apartment, and would like to make a dedicated stereo room. Any recommendations on where to start? My speakers are 7' tall line arrays with 2 barrel subs that have 2 18" drivers each.
Start with an excellent structural foundation on top of extremely well prepared ground work.
Start with research:
CONSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS, Richard G. Ahlvin and Vernon Allen Smoots
FORENSIC GEOTECHNICAL AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING, Robert W. Day.
The foundation is the only thing that you cannot replace on a structure [unless you pick-up the structure - very messy & expensive]. Walls & roof are totally dependent on the foundation; yet people just look at the FU FU nonsense.
Your listening room will be supported [no matter the level it is on] by the foundation.
Do not count on contractors to do the job correctly.
My real hope is that the house will have something pretty close to the right size, which I am trying to figure out what I should try to find, and I will just work at treating it. Any ideas for dimensions?
I am the wrong person for that question except for the following.
I find that most people Wish that they had made a room [no matter what the purpose] a little or a lot larger; no one ever seems to wish smaller.
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I am looking to buy my first home, I did a lot of trading to get to where I am during college and while living in an apartment, and would like to make a dedicated stereo room. Any recommendations on where to start? My speakers are 7' tall line arrays with 2 barrel subs that have 2 18" drivers each.
Finished room size: a minimum using the golden proportion (.616 x 1.000 x 1.616) of 16' high x 25' wide x 40' long. Make the room symmetrical left to right and front to back.
Concrete floor, carpeted or wood parquet covered as needed for tonal balance, 2x6 walls, double studs (a room inside a room) independent of any other room for sound proofing, two layers of purple sound proofing sheet rock glued and screwed. 200 amp service to the room, all outlets are home run on their own circuit breaker. At least 20- 20 amp circuits and 6- 240V circuits.
LED lighting in at least six separate zones, dedicated HVAC zones, separate cooled closet for heat producing amplifiers, acoustically diffusive walls and ceilings.
Now, I will tell you the problem with a dedicated listening room. You can only listen to it when you're in there locked away from the rest of the house. My "listening room" is in my main living room and my "living room system" is in my secondary living room. You have to decide how you want it to be.
Finished room size: a minimum using the golden proportion (.616 x 1.000 x 1.616) of 16' high x 25' wide x 40' long. Make the room symmetrical left to right and front to back.
Concrete floor, carpeted or wood parquet covered as needed for tonal balance, 2x6 walls, double studs (a room inside a room) independent of any other room for sound proofing, two layers of purple sound proofing sheet rock glued and screwed. 200 amp service to the room, all outlets are home run on their own circuit breaker. At least 20- 20 amp circuits and 6- 240V circuits.
LED lighting in at least six separate zones, dedicated HVAC zones, separate cooled closet for heat producing amplifiers, acoustically diffusive walls and ceilings.
Now, I will tell you the problem with a dedicated listening room. You can only listen to it when you're in there locked away from the rest of the house. My "listening room" is in my main living room and my "living room system" is in my secondary living room. You have to decide how you want it to be.
Haha, nice... My hopes are to either convert a basement into a listening room or a formal living room into the listening room. I think I'll just try to get the largest bonus room I can and take it from there.
