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Almost ready to move to the new house (new to us). The music room is starting to shape up, it is on dedicated wiring and I'll be upgrading a few outlets next week. Just got the floor done and some furniture in. Will have to get some rugs and wall hangings soon. Speakers are scheduled to go in after Christmas. I'll finally be able to do the Sashas justice.

Gosh darnit I'd love to have that kind of space! Best of luck with it all.

Nice room!, fill it with vinyl shelving! Best of luck with it.

Thanks Guys. It is not all good though. The room is close to square, there is only about 2 feet difference between the length and width. There are a few techniques for dealing with square(ish) rooms and luckily the space is big enough to accommodate the few techniques I know of. Hope I can get it all together before the new year. I'll post pics once everything is in place.

Lovely looking room!


Best of luck with it - send us more pics as you move in!



Fran

Well done on getting a dedicated room.
please do post photos as it progresses.
don't forget the open day when it's finished! it's a rule!

Best of luck with it.

Derek wrote:Well done on getting a dedicated room.
please do post photos as it progresses.
don't forget the open day when it's finished! it's a rule!

Best of luck with it.

Misread Derek's post initially thought it read ' please do not post photos! and to finish I expected to see 'simply because we are all insanely jealous' !!

Fantastic room it should be a sticky to inspire the rest of us when in negotiations on man cave room selection.

What is the issue with square rooms mine is very close to that type of measurement?

Best of luck with it please do post photo's as it progresses, Well done!

Hi Tony,
Thanks. To answer your question here is a typical description you can find on the web. Basically rooms with the same L x W have exactly the same resonance characteristics at exactly the same spots along their axis so effects double. My walls are 22 and 20 ft long, I don’t know if this is close enough to constitute a square or not or how much the 2 ft difference will help. Of course haven’t actually tried the speakers in the room yet so it may not be too much of an issue.

Here is a description I found
“All rooms have room modes, and part of the studio designer's job is to pick room dimensions that space the modes out as evenly as possible, so that none dominate. What we don't want is a set of room modes created by one pair of surfaces that occur at exactly the same frequencies as those from another pair of surfaces, because not only does that increase the amplitude at the humps and dips, it also leaves a bigger gap between the modes — there are fewer to fill in and level out the response. Larger rooms tend to generate more closely spaced modes and therefore tend to have fewer modal problems, whereas smaller rooms support fewer modal frequencies and consequently are more problematic. This is because the lowest modal frequency is determined by the wall spacing corresponding to the quarter wavelength of the fundamental frequency. Clearly, a square room is bad news, and a small square one is even worse, as there are relatively few modal frequencies in the crucial bass region and those from both sets of walls stack up at the same frequencies. Rooms with dimension almost exactly twice that of another dimension are almost as bad. The worst case is a square room that is as high as it is wide. In other words, a cube”

Solutions include setting the system/room up diagonally, creating smaller golden ratio envelopes around the speakers and so on. Cardas have a good paper on it.

Hope you don't have 10' ceilings too...

No thankfully. Downstairs does but this is upstairs and all have 8 ft height rooms