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SPEAKERS FOR MY NEW LISTENING ROOM

My listening room is 27x19.5 with a cathedrial ceiling to a 16 foot height. The peak runs perpendicular to the 27 foot wall . I will be using my marantz 2500 ( 250 w.p.c. at 8 ohms 330 w.p.c. at 4 ohms ). I like some oldies , classical, jazz, and occasionally some loud house shaking rock and roll . Price range 2000-4000 dollars . Prefer tight, well defined bass , with the ability to hear the difference between the bass drum and the bass guitar and not having to worry about frying a driver or if I do, having the availability of purchasing a replacement driver without taking out a second mortage . There is a possibility of installing a wood tongue and groove ceiling in the near future. OK you Gurus start your engines . Thanks a bunch !FBI.
fbi
fbi OP
92 posts
 
CARL, HOW DOES ONE DECIDE UPON ACOUSTIC TREATMENTS ? DO I NEED AN AUDIO SWEEP GENERATOR AND A SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL METER TO TEST VARIOUS PLACES IN MY ROOM FOR HOT SPOTS? ELDRAGON AND 3141510 , I WILL GIVE THESE SELECTIONS CAREFUL CONSIERATION ,THANK YOU . ANY ONE ELSE ?
carl_eber
1,425 posts
 
All you need to do is damp first reflection points on every wall, and preferably use full round traps at least in the room's corners behind each speaker (16 inch or larger diameter). Do this, and you're done. You can tweak the imaging and response smoothness by turning the diffraction sides of the traps to either face toward the wall, or away from the wall (besides adjusting listening seat and speaker position). The only reason to use mics and analyzers is if you have a lot of different "critical" audio listeners coming through often to listen to your system. They would obviously want to know how well your system/room measures. You'd want to be able to show them on paper, so they wouldn't try to move stuff every time they came by to "improve the imaging/tonality".
sol322
426 posts
 
FBI What I´ve done to measure different treatment effects without expending that much money is get the Radio S. SPL and a test tone CD like Chesky/Stereo Review Stereophile has some too. It´s very easy to get an idea of placement and problems using this and plotting in a Excel sheet. You don´t get a fancy frequence sweep but you get a closer look to what´s really happening, sometimes seasoned golden ears find out that what they´ve as the best sound in their rooms is plagued with enhanced frequencies.... Good luck
carl_eber
1,425 posts
 
A good test CD is the Sheffield "My Disc", with the band limited pink noise tracks. Your ears will suffice, but you can use a radioshack SPL meter if you like. I have one.
rrgordon
46 posts
 
Buy used if you want to have money leftover for a pair of bass traps. Do you know the Brentworth TypeIIIs? A rare pair is on auction now and well within your price range. Because you have a large room, you could get the most from their excellent bass extension. Just be aware that they will play LOUD with as little as 40 watts (yet can handle high power). Contact the seller, I'm sure they'd be willing to discuss equipment matching with you. Good luck.
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