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In the Thread: The Opera Room

Post Subject: The new life of opera room.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/26/2013

Along with last remodeling that we performed in Opera Room the room is becoming more the most pleasant room in our house. In fact we spend now more time then in listening room. We eat there, we watch films there. Sometime we watch TV there. I sleep there when Amy misbehaves. We just love to spend time in there. I caught more than once Amy does her favorite NY time reading or British Mystery watching on her iPad in the Opera Room. I was asking her why she does it there and she say that she love to be in that room. So do I for some reason – it is becoming very comply after the last remodeling.

We change the room drapes, new screen, new carpet, new walls arrangement, put everything in shelves and slightly change furniture position. Amy is dreaming to cover the walls and ceiling in oak veneer along with running rusticated beams on the ceiling, I am not against it still am looking for the wood that I would like.

I sometimes thinking that with all comfort that we are build in the Opera Room I might think to get better sound as I stent too much time in that room. There are other 2 reasons. First is that it is SS amp room and not too demanding to turn it on and off. The second reasons is that despite that my main audio installation produces incontestably better sound but that sound is fine only in the listening room. In the kitchen and in other rooms it is very bad. The sound coming from Opera Room for whatever reasons is great across the whole sound and even nice on the deck where we have spa installed. When main system plays then all lower range sound is absolutely done as soon I live the listening room. With Cetla 91 playing in my Opera Room we have full bass exertion everywhere, including the bedrooms. Very nice indeed...

I love the look and feel of the Cetla 91 in this room and I have no intention to put in there anything more capable. I doubt that play with amplification and I most definitely will look for better pre-amplification as I would like to have not only more able unit but the most important to have a remote control and tone controls. I do not think that I will go for expensive high end preamp but I have my option open. Perhaps it will be something with own better DACs, some kind of video/audio processors but they are all multi-channeled nowadays. Perhaps some older 2- channel models would be available. I do not know yet as I am not familiar with this market at all. In 90 I had Theata Casanova for my video application, I was thinking about something like that. Shall it be way less expensive nowadays?

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