ROOM
My Red listening chair is in an 8’ by 8’ corner of our ‘room’, which is the whole ground floor of our house. Living, dining, kitchen. The south narrow 16’ wall at my listening area is two floor-to-ceiling windows. The long 32’ west wall is 4 double, glass patio doors, with narrow bookshelves between. The East 32’ wall is another patio door and 3 big windows. Floor is bare concrete with 8 carpet mats. Ceiling is 8’, drywall. It’s not an echo chamber.
As an architect-designed house with views, I don’t want drapes, window treatments, carpeting, or other major changes to the room.
MUSIC
I prefer streamed radio. I like jazz and Paradise Radio MOA Mellow and World music at lower levels, often at night after others have gone to bed.
Dimensions: 32’ × 16’ Large
Ceiling: 8’
EQUIPMENT
B & O Beolab8000 black ‘pencil’ powered speakers, supposed to be great for vocals. These are about 10ft from my ears.
Hsu ULS MkII sealed sub, against patio door wall 8ft behind my listening chair facing into the room.
Paradigm Series 7 sealed 12in sub, facing back of listening chair, 4ft behind (under wood table)
NODE 3rd gen, connected with Blue Jeans Ethernet cable to ASOS router, which is Wi-Fi connected to our main ASOS router. The NODE was updated to a PD Creative power board and Teddy Pardo linear power supply.
SMSL M400 DAC. The speakers are connected to the RCA terminals, and the subs are connected to the XLR terminals, then RCA to the subs.
Interconnect Cables are Blue Jeans LC1.