asilker
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March 2018 with Altecs and tubes
Detail shots of Thorens, Altec, Etc
Guitar stuff starts here
Back in 2021 with more smoke, more guitars, moving to solid state
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We moved into a new condo with a little more space in order to host out of town visitors and eventually children.
My new room is 17 x 18 ft, which feels enormous compared to my last space. I'll admit it: 16" Altec drivers sound better with a bit more space.
It's not unusual for us to have friends over 4 times a week, so my goal is to create a space that's colorful and welcoming for me, but also homey for friends. I am concerned with speaker placement and refraction / diffraction / reflection / absorbsion, but frankly my stereo is working to serve a living space and I'm not concerned with scientifically perfect playback. Goal 1: love the room, goal 2: get the stereo working as best as possible without goofing up goal 1. I suppose I buy into the Art Dudley philosophy there.
We are trying hard to avoid putting a TV in the room and disconnect from the screen a bit. Still feels weird but I think habits are starting to change.
The intent of this thread is just to air some photos of my space, and I likely won't be doing a whole lot of that until I finish the room up and purchase a real camera. Until then here's a couple teasers
March 2018 with Altecs and tubes
Detail shots of Thorens, Altec, Etc
Guitar stuff starts here
Back in 2021 with more smoke, more guitars, moving to solid state
Original post:
We moved into a new condo with a little more space in order to host out of town visitors and eventually children.
My new room is 17 x 18 ft, which feels enormous compared to my last space. I'll admit it: 16" Altec drivers sound better with a bit more space.
It's not unusual for us to have friends over 4 times a week, so my goal is to create a space that's colorful and welcoming for me, but also homey for friends. I am concerned with speaker placement and refraction / diffraction / reflection / absorbsion, but frankly my stereo is working to serve a living space and I'm not concerned with scientifically perfect playback. Goal 1: love the room, goal 2: get the stereo working as best as possible without goofing up goal 1. I suppose I buy into the Art Dudley philosophy there.
We are trying hard to avoid putting a TV in the room and disconnect from the screen a bit. Still feels weird but I think habits are starting to change.
The intent of this thread is just to air some photos of my space, and I likely won't be doing a whole lot of that until I finish the room up and purchase a real camera. Until then here's a couple teasers
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