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In the Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room

Post Subject: Late night listeningPosted by Jorge on: 9/2/2015

I love late night listening sessions, low volume but still enough to wake up kids. Most surely they will wake up and cuddle next to you while you are listening, you will have this great image of your kid falling asleep on your lap through the whole left over movements from Holst´s Planets, but a moment later you see a perfectly awaken little face in front of yours with a big smile! Now you´ve broken his biological clock and he will jump around and play until 4 am. when he will go back to sleep, you will think he will sleep until noon next day, but oh no. 6 am he is up again as always! And you are beaten. He will of course have a long nap at 5 pm and wake up at 9 pm, ready for school...

3 car garage seems wonderful, but hard to find, I settled for a big 2 car garage...

Now the dedicated listening room is not out of bounds for kids, I made the mistake of putting in a projector and we had a great time watching movies with the big sound when they were very little and we couldn't go out to the movies, but as they grow, they now want to watch their cartoons in there and Space Buddies for the 11th time, to the point that you are not allowed in your music room anymore. Once they discover Ipads and minecraft, they will go and hide in any corner and you will never know they exist anymore...
I would say the best compromise is to have a nice sound system in the living room, with all the rejects form your dedicated listening room, still a very good system and use it to play your music for dinner, with a projector and Iphone ports, Tidal, etc and you will have a great time with your kids. Once the movie is over and they go to sleep, you go out to your dedicated listening room and have some adult time with vinyl...

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