The AR9LSi are much more tolerant of being closer to the back wall than other speakers like the AR9 with the side firing woofers, or any speaker with a rear mounted port.
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The AR9LSi are much more tolerant of being closer to the back wall than other speakers like the AR9 with the side firing woofers, or any speaker with a rear mounted port.
I am thinking more about the potential disruption caused by the gear being ahead of the baffles. And just to see if there is any difference.
Snoober
Dysthymic
Lovely room, avanti. I bought a GIK bass trap and I was mulling some diffusors: good to see someone putting them to use.
Markoneswift
Quartz locked n ready to rock
I had chance to rework the office / stereo ghetto today with a few cupboards we picked up from a local sale. Nothing fancy but its much tidier than it was !!!
ghgreyhounds
New Member
Yes, I'm a few months behind. Woody, love your space, and the main room/great room/living room looks very spacious. Can you state whether or not you have any acoustical issues, and if you do, what have you done/tried.
Worried Man
Super Member
If all goes well, my wife and I are purchasing a house this week and moving from our small apartment. My wife especially would like us to have better LP storage space. She doesn't like the shelves we have now that require the LPs to be stored in the usual manner, with the spines to the outside. We both find it hard to find LPs, even though they're well organized alphabetically, etc. We'd like to find the kind of shelving that record stores use, whereby you can flip through the albums and see the front of the cover. Anybody have any ideas, sources, etc.? Thanks!
Hofy
Voids Warranties
If you have some tools or have a friend that does, build your own. The basic cabinet uses a single sheet of plywood.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/in...m-single-4-x-8-sheet-of-plywood-plans.337891/
nyhifihead
Well-Known Member
upgraded the living room system- replaced some KLH barons with PSB 6T and replaced sony ES AVR with a nakamichi TA4A
ictwoody
I like vintage gear — my preamp is from 2007.
My big room is a little "live," but not too bad. Since both sets of speakers/systems are
reasonably far from side walls (except my right Altec) first reflections aren't a huge issue. There are definitely some room modes... but I'm not going to do anything about it because of aesthetics. My dedicated room is smaller, but it's in process of being fully treated as I find time to make the treatments.
I enjoy both rooms.
- Woody
Nice Missions!
Markoneswift
Quartz locked n ready to rock
Thanks mate - refoaming those was, literally, a mission in itself. I think the proper foams for these must have a really thin roll on them because fitting generic foam to the back edge of the cone was not easy ! I think they sound pretty decent now though and I'm definitely looking at bookshelf speakers to keep rather than floorstanders due to limited space.
Worried Man
Super Member
All right, thanks. I have neither the skills nor the tools for the task, I'm afraid. The only woodworking-skilled friend I have is about 1,000 miles away. Most of my friends here on the east coast are urban townhouse dwellers with no room for such endeavors (even assuming they were so inclined). I might just have to commission the project to the lowest bidder. Ha!
ove.wikstrom
New Member
Just an evening listening session.....a random pull of freshly RCM'd lp's.....stone quiet and highly enjoyable!!
That's what it's all about!
cube-tube
Super Member
Here's a little update of mine. The addition of not one, but two tuners... Yamaha TX-1000U and Carver TX-11a. Not pictured are the two antennas mounted on the back wall of the room, a C.Crane FM Reflect going to the Yammie and a Magnum Dynalab ST-2 going to the Carver.
Delmarva
Lunatic Member
It depends on what you want to spend of course, or conversely how skilled you are at woodworking. Of course the size of your collection comes into play as well. If you're in the thousands then you're going to need a lot of space to have record store flip-ability. There are lots of storage solutions at this link but very few actually provide a solution to your dilemma.
http://coloredvinylrecords.com/blog/vinyl-record-storage-and-shelving-solutions/
I've seen plans for DIY record store style cabinets that wouldn't be very expensive to knock together. When I moved a few years ago I need a way to transport my modest collection of 420 or so albums. I went with six Container Store oversized milk crates. Not terribly attractive but very effective for transport and storage.
http://www.containerstore.com/s/sto...l-record-storage-crate/12d?productId=10005526
Almost four years down the road and I'm still using them. My listening room is small so the ability to stack them on top of each other is great. It means I have to shuffle them around to get to different parts of the collection but that's not a big deal. I too like to flip albums rather than sliding them in and out of a rack. I can spread the crates all over the floor or stack them like you see here which allows for classic record store standing and flipping of a third my vinyl at a time. It's ugly but it's effective.
