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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Dedicated Music Room Build

Post Subject: Planning, planning and one more to time planning.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/4/2011

If it is dedicated music room then it is great but offset a lot idea that I have in my mind for integrated room. I have made a number of comments why I do not like the idea of “dedicated music rooms”, which does not make me to blind to recognize the great advantages that dedicated rooms offer. But since you have made a decision to have a dedicated room then it shall not be the subject of your interest.

If you are talking about a dedicated room with 30Hz bass horn then strategic location of your bass horns in respect to the room shall be your main guiding principle. You need to do a LAOT of plans drawing and a lot of idea testing before you finalize your intention. You might look “Midbass Horns and Real Estate” thread that I have linked to this thread; it has a lot of interesting ideas including my model of a “perfect room” from a position of room/horns relation.

If you have a chance then go for none parallel walls with as much as possible architectural features. The cathedral ceiling in my view is much better then flat ceiling; a flat wall is not a s preferable as a walls with cavities and indentation. Carpets, dedicated power and many other things are not truly important at this point as you need to decide strategically what kind room you will have, how it will related to the rest of the house (do not under estimate it).

I am a bit puzzled that you mention the visually pleasing aspect of your future room. I might be wrong but in my estimation the whole concept of dedicated room make the visually pleasing aspect irrelevant. The idea of dedicated room target only sonic performance objectives, not normal living objectives, if you have a 15 feet commercial metal lathe in your bedroom then It is fine and you decorate your lathe and make the metal shaving and cooling oil do not bother you to do your normal bedroom activities. If you have a dedicated lathe room then the installation of your lathe and facilitation the services the lathe need become your main priority and you do not care how your room looks like.

So, I think you need to decide the death of the definition of “dedicated” for yourself and then begin to draw layouts and sketches. Feel free to upload it at the site and we will try to corroborate on them. I made literally over a hundred sketches and plans before built my midbass horns in my room, in your case for the whole room you need to do many more. Planning, planning and one more to time planning. You could never over plan your budding projects. Be specific in your planning, even be anal retentive. Make your successes accidental and your failures planed.

The Cat

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