On 1/2/2014 7:36 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> My goal, once I win Powerball, is to build not only a house with a
>> custom-engineered home theatre/listening room, but to populate it with
>> full-sized, full-range speakers designed for audio listening in 5.1 that
>> will also kick butt on cinema stuff.
> ...
>
> Personally, I see little value in chasing the perfect equipment until
> the room itself is somewhat close. A little rule of thumb I like to
> use when it comes to both acoustical design/treatment and equipment is
> that a 10% financial investment will get you 90% of the way there.
Ahhhhh. Now, on the second, we are in agreement. (Well ... more or less.)
In a world where the sound in many places has deteriorated to over compressed
MP3 over tinny docking station speakers,
my old mid range audiophile electronics through a pair of great mini-motors on
proper stands is Nirvanic.
We belong to a house church, where different members host and present what may
or may not look to others like a
'service'. A few weeks ago I hosted, and the entire formalish part of the
meeting was music, with only a few words to
set up the purpose. When the remastered version of Roberta Flack's 'The First
Time I Ever Saw Your Face' started up, I
could see hairs raising on arms, body language changing. The whole energy of
the room changed. (The quality of the rest
of that greatest hits album is variable. Whoever originally made that recording
was a serious master. And the digital
remastering is perfect.)
Whatever equipment gets to that point is sufficient for me.
Paul, you should see the muddle of cross connected equipment that allows me to
use the same main speakers and the same
pair of home brew sub-woofers, driven by the .1 channel of the theater stuff,
for both audio and theater. Ancient, home
brew, full range surround sound speakers, too.
Barely Audible Moose
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