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It is interesting development going on in my listening room. Amy the Kitten is making her hands dirty to convert our man-cave nerdy house into something that we as a family would enjoy. With all horror that this move would inflict in the heart of a heavy-core audio person I have to admit that I do like so far what she is doing. One of the walls in the listening room is broken and her baby grand, her music and her cute viola are placed in the space. It made room even larger than before. I still work on acoustic treatment of the new space and I will post the picture what I feel I am gone.

With time goes by we have a number of other projects how we could modify the appearance of the listening room. It might sound sacrilegious but Amy has beautiful taste and capacity in decoration field, she is sensible and recognizes arguments (it I subdue her unfortunate decoration spontaneousness) and she is respectful in term of reasons – a seldom quality for a woman.

Some far the only change she inflicted to our listening room was creation the space for her musical instruments in the room and change my listening chair to a listening couch.  The last one was not negotiable for her. I enjoy it but when I explain to her about time alignment and necessity to sit in specific manner she disobey and keep posturing herself within the couch like a monkey on a tree. I work on that part of her listening habits, not too successfully so far.

We have a plan to remove wall-to-wall carpet from listening room and to put there parquet with mandatory Oriental rug. I have no problem with it and I even like it but I need to formalize this project in context of the playback to live on hard surface – it will be many changed that I need to force. The most attractive from audio perspective is that I will be able to drive Macondo across the room on some kind of good rolls in my search of DPoLF.

The most interesting change however is not what I said above but what is coming next. Amy has some kind of girlish obsession with plants. She sticks them into all imaginable places and the next target of her attention is Macondo. She asked me if I would like to decorate Macondo with some plants.  With all ridiculousness of this proposal I have to admit that I like the idea a lot.  A few years back I was visiting an installation in Manhattan. The guy was a full Goto setup that was located in the main room but it was very tactfully almost hidden in a “jungle” of very cleverly positioned plans. The speakers and amplifiers were almost invisible and the music was sound like it come from a forest. I am sure that it would not be possible in my situation but I very open to experiment with it and to see where it might go.

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