Best lighting for an audio room

One candle is plenty..No more..Darker the better!

My system sounds best in natural light on a bright sunny day.

I guess your'e probably right about the dimmer switches. Aside from that, I like either dim wall lighting or dim lamp lighting. Sometimes I like the feeling I get from lighting the torchieres I have behind each speaker. It is a soft up-lighting. I have been to listening rooms in homes and high end stores that have overhead track lighting, or other types of ceiling lights, and I find it glaring and really unpleasant.

Here is what I do,

Get a string of christmas lights, all white, and the smallest you can find. Place them around the rear permineter of your rack. Tape them down. If they are too bright, wrap some brown duck tape around each light to cast a low level dim light. Trust me...it looks great. Indirect lighting that adds a nice warm glow from the rear...and does not effect tv viewing if you have a screen on the wall.

" If they are too bright, wrap some brown duck tape around each light to cast a low level dim light. Trust me."

After following that advice , I would invest heavily in smoke detectors... trust me!