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The Perfect Room?

I am building an addition on my house, and am considering (read, begging my wife) building a dedicated listening room in the basement. Of course, it will be perfect, because all of you will guide me in this project. I'm not asking about the equipment, I'm talking about the room itself. What is the 'perfect' size, dimensions, shape, building materials, etc for a 2 channel audio room. While I'm at it, I'd better consider a multi-channel room, even though I don't currently pan to do that. Any good articles on the subject?

THanks.

John

johnax
cenline
238 posts
 
The perfect room is the golden cubeaziod by Cardas which is 10Hx16Wx26L. This is supposed to eliminate any standing waves down to 32hz and allow for great speaker set-up.Good luck on your addition since it is a long process(we are just finishing ours after a 8month time frame)Dennis
ohlala
1,235 posts
 
I remember a Stereophile interview of George Cardas. He talked of having eliminated all the parallel surfaces in his Magnepan listening room. Struck me as one of the ultimate audio PIAs.

I suggest you also check out this site and you may find something of interest in this site.
johnax OP
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Ozfly and others, thanks for the great info and threads. They are very much appreciated.

John
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
Here is a neat little room mode calculator that you can keep on your desktop, it's free to download and takes the math work out of the picture. Easy to read and use also.

Just click the (ModeCalc) link at the top of the page after you follow this link: http://realtraps.com/

Dave
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timo
610 posts
 
Unfortunately, no such thing as the perfect room.
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