Building a house with dedicated stereo room-advice

The Wattgate 381 outlet is another option to consider.

I've had good luck with Hubbel 5362's and Pass & Seymour 5362's recently cryoe'd.I agree that building a dedicated room is the best route to a great sounding system, be patient and do it right. Well worth the work.

Want a real listening room? Go to this website and start learning-

http://northwardacoustics.com

This team, led by Frenchman Thomas Jouanjean, are regarded as the top designers of mastering labs in the world today. Take a look at what they are working on right now, and you will understand. Then, go to this webiste, a facility they did in Amsterdam-

http://amsterdammastering.com

Click on the Studio tab, and look at the slideshow which has extremely detailed drawings and images of the actual construction. I seriously doubt you or anyone at Audiogon will go to these lengths on a home listening room, but it is good to know what the professional approach to a listening room is, as opposed to what you will get on a board like this.

Weisselk
OMA

Jweiss... WOW... That's a lot of pictures. Very Cool to say the least.

This may sound a bit strange at first, but if you're building the room from scratch (something I've done). Hang all of your high end electrical outlets from the ceiling on the sides of the room. Also if possible, build in a rear access point if you can (like a hallway behind your gear). This has saved me many headaches! If you don't already know try to use dedicated breakers in your main fuse panel for each power outlet location, personally I use four separate breaker in my fuse box. I know a lot of people argue to have the power outlets in the floors, but, I have found this to only add to the clutter and trip hazards already around in such rooms. Another advantage of this idea is that it helps to separate power from audio lines thus reducing interference.