Listening Room

Listen, a good stereo is a good stereo even if you listen in another room- and it’s really good when it sounds good in another room. More often than not, I’m listening from my kitchen or my front porch or over supper in our dining room and not a fussy, dedicated little chair to obsess or drive myself crazy in. My stereo is great and I very well know it. I bought it and I put it together. I’m listening to music and I suggest everyone else should put some of this entitled little anal chair energy into just listening to the music.

If that’s how you’re listening, you can call it whatever you want but you’re listening to equipment.

All that said, I look forward to getting myself a hot small system 'Listening Room' at some point soon in my retirement, but again, I'm going to be doing other things while playing music so it's more of a 'me space' for naps, my tchotchkes and art than an Audio Laboratory. 

Listen, a good stereo is a good stereo even if you listen in another room- and it’s really good when it sounds good in another room.

+1.

My wife has resigned herself to my dedicated, treated listening room.
That said, it IS in the attic. 🤔

That, or it goes smack in the middle of the living room, where it used to be for 40 years. 😬😆

@gents I have a chair in the sweet spot. I move my head even a few inches left or right, the sound changes. I do not “do other stuff” while I listen. That’s not listening, and it’s a waste, imho, of the investment in both time and money. If you wanna listen while you are cooking or repairing the car, get a cheap Bose Bluetooth system. Sorry, dude. 

@unreceivedogma  , I used to have my system in the living room, and I could enjoy sound that I was quite happy with from a variety of locations.  No, it wasn't like being at the apex of the triangle, but still I got a lot of enjoyment.  I remember many pleasurable mornings/afternoons/evening sitting out on the backporch jamming on tunes.  Or while I was in the shower.  Maybe I had forgiving speakers (my old B&W 805s) or maybe I was just more forgiving.

Now I am in a small back bedroom that is mostly dedicated to books, guns and listening, and I think that although it is imperfect I get width beyond that walls (I listen in the dark with my eyes shut) and the speakers disappear and with a good source material instruments float in the air, and back in my "room" there are no distractions like in the old living room days, but I think I had more fun listening back in the old days.

@immatthewj 

My background listening was limited to earphones and a Walkman while doing 20 laps around Prospect Park on my bicycle or some such thing. Now I don’t do background listening at all. 
 

when I put on my audio system, I sit and listen.