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1970's listening space - Please help contribute

quartermoonp

quartermoonp

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This might be either a fun thread, or a total train wreck, but I'm betting with fellow AK'ers it will be the former.

Setup: I want to do a retro listening room, that reflects what you might have found in the mid 70's furnishing wise. I can paint/poster/etc so no worries there. One thing: No shag carpeting (boo). Think more like adult listening area, no bedroom/college student décor.

Here's what I have component wise:
Sansui Model 2K - Silver/black
Pioneer RT-707 reel to reel - Silver
Sansui Turntable - Silver
Wharfdale W70D - Walnut cabinets

Go!! :thmbsp::scratch2:
 
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Well do you wan't a kids Stoners room?:smoke:

Or a funky adult space:nerd:

Depending on your age I would go the adult rout.

Cork and miror 12" tiles on one of the walls. Remember those?

http://www.menards.com/main/floorin...ential-cork-floor-tiles-12-x-12/p-2047235.htm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/380910531491?lpid=82


Don't forget you need swag lamps


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Everybody smoked then so you need some groovy ashtrays.

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the mirrors!

theres those 12x12 mirrors with a marbled gold effect in them all over the place with a matching coffee table and end tables. i also got a trippy chandelier light thing made out of round sea shells i think. its hanging in-between my receiver and TT with those mirrors behind it!

dont know what my grand parents where going for. maybe a las vegas scar face thing. everything is white and theirs statues of women and leopards everywhere.

also got a giant round chair, it would be bitchin reupholstered in purple velvet man. theres also a glitter lava lamp that lights up blue.

i would say you need a cool wall clock, trippy blown glass ashtray, wood paneling, mirrors, lava lamp, funky lamp/light, period correct chair. pretty much a Goodwill trip.
 
Mad Mark said:
the mirrors!

theres those 12x12 mirrors with a marbled gold effect in them all over the place with a matching coffee table and end tables. i also got a trippy chandelier light thing made out of round sea shells i think. its hanging in-between my receiver and TT with those mirrors behind it!

dont know what my grand parents where going for. maybe a las vegas scar face thing. everything is white and theirs statues of women and leopards everywhere.

also got a giant round chair, it would be bitchin reupholstered in purple velvet man. theres also a glitter lava lamp that lights up blue.

i would say you need a cool wall clock, trippy blown glass ashtray, wood paneling, mirrors, lava lamp, funky lamp/light, period correct chair. pretty much a Goodwill trip.
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See you and I are on the same page. :D Got to get that swinging singles groovy look.

Just get an 8mm porno and look at the furniture.:banana:
 
I sometimes miss the 70's.

Well, from experience, I set up my 70's space when it was the 70's in my parent's attic. I figured the peaked ceilings would be good for acoustics. I had a job, so I bought 6" FIBERGLASS insulation and packed it between the rafters, then put up that soft board, I think they called it Homasote, over the insulation. Double carpeted the floors.

Farrah poster, a few psychodelic posters, and one big ass bean bag chair to listen in. The damn chair had to be 8' round if you let it totally flatten out. I slept on it a lot.

Never had a Lava lamp, but that would have been a good addition. I did have a strobe light and a black light. And one of the posters was black light luminous.

I mounted shelves to the far wall for the equipment. Didn't use cinder blocks or milk crates.
 
Does she come with the bean bag chair?? :D

Great suggestions and really appreciate the pictures.

I have to say no to the bedroom look, more of the adult feel.

Keep going, this is really getting the neurons firing.
 
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