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Best Listening Room?

I am considering building an addition to my house, and figured I'd build a dedicated listening room while I am at it. So the question is, what is the best listening room one can reasonably build? Should it be square/rectangular or have tapered walls? Round corners? Should the ceiling/roof be high or low? Flat or angled? What is the best floor, wall and ceiling covering material? Etc etc... In other words: If you were to start from scratch, what would be the best room you could build?
njonker
bob_bundus
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see August Stereophile "Fine Tunes" P.154 by Jonathan Scull. George Cardas' ideas for reducing "slap echo" via asymmetrical wall dimensions; even tunable rooms with a tapered-angle sidewall on rollers (if you're actually building a room, might as well go all-out). Good article.
bearcub158caa
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Reference George Cardas' website, Cardas Audio Insights. Very helpful.
brianw
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Positive Feedback is working on a series of articles about Winston Ma's listening room. I think somewhere around $300K was spent. It may share some ideas that can be utilized for much less. And, what is this stuff about walls on rollers? I hope that it is stable ...
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Over at my dealers' he has these sort of CD rack looking things on the celing,right and left walls,No tube traps/or such. Sort of octagonal shapped wall behind the speakers./ no corners Any one been to Brooks Berdan's place?(So. Cal) Now to ans. the question Best room? mine/it's closer.Recres,the stable wall should be outside. Yes I'm keeping the day job.
brianw
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I'm a building contractor. Of course the stable wall is on the outside. My concerns regard the ability of the "Wall on rollers" to not make noise or shake , rattle and roll during passages with extreme low frequencies. Ever hear one of those kids with 4 15 inch subwoofers in their car at the stoplight? That's where my concerns lie.
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