My wife has finally decided to move her desk to a different room in the house and use that as an office so now I plan to make our game room back into a game room.
The room is about 15x15 but has double doors in the corner. At the bottom wall, I was gonna move my desk over and put my audio rack in between the TV on the right and my desk so I can use my current audio setup for both desk speakers and main speakers.
Currently my idea is to maybe move the sofa a little closer, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 into the room and then put some floorstanders near the TV. My current goal is the JBL 4367 but those might be too big or there might be better options. Any suggestions are welcome!
Current chain - ps audio directstream mk2 - luxman L509x - ATC SCM20 and KEF kc62
I think I have the fortes in a good spot but I’d like to get different speakers and put these back to the living room. Looking for any suggestions. Would like to stay close to $5k and under $10k.
Currently I’m considering Atalante 5s and JBL 4349.
Nice, good luck in finding your next speaker! I don’t have much speaker knowledge so I can’t give self experience suggestion. But if I was ever in the market for some new speakers, besides the Atalante 5s, the Clayton Shaw Caladan looks really interesting. Of course it all depends what kind of sound preference you are looking for.
You may have limitations and valid reasons to put your setup in the room this way but that room would sound better with the speakers along the back wall and your desk in another location preferable opposite the speakers if you’ve got the room for it.
We can’t always implement the ideal though. Not orthodox but perhaps a better arrangement purely for the benefit of improved acoustics.
Your price range gives you so many options.
From the options you listed seems like you’re going for floor standing. Since these days (and the past couple years) I’m a Devore Fidelity shill, did you consider the O/Baby and O/93? They’d fit your budget new…
Yeah unfortunately this is the setup we’ve decided. My wife was going to move her desk out of the room but decided against it after my parents stayed with us in the room that would’ve been her office. Since she works in the room 5 days a week, I have to let her pick where she wants her desk so it’ll have to be by the window.
With that limitation, the only other solution is for me to put my desk where the speakers currently are and have the speakers coming out from a corner, opposite of the doors. I don’t really want to do that because it’ll mean a lot of sound leakage from the room.
I have tried the o/baby and my dealer will sell it to me for ~10% off new. I feel like I can do better than that though but devore is definitely an option. Just not the leading one cause they don’t pop up very often.
The seating makes all the difference in the world especially with the kind of money you have dumped on the equipment
Honestly you could drop $100k on the speakers and if you can’t get the seating or speaker position decent it won’t matter in certain sound characteristics.
I won’t offer up speaker choices, that’s a very personal decision based on your front end and character desired BUT I would recommend you search for makes that will work within your confines.
Good luck and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
You have experience since you already use the room for music so the excitement IMO is more in the hunt for a good speaker you desire
This is what Gik suggested. A bunch of bass traps in the back, diffusers and sound blocks in the front, and panels on the side and ceiling. I think I’ll probably start with the side reflection points and diffusors first. I have a tri trap already coming in but I don’t want to absolutely kill the bass in the room with all those traps. I do have quite a bump at 40hz though.
I don’t think it’s possible to “kill the bass” in a room. The phrase “bass trap” is misleading in itself as you can only attenuate it, reducing the pressure. Low frequency energy doesn’t get “trapped.”
The sofa is in the hall because if he actually wants to enjoy the 2 channel he needs room for his single listening chair which he can move around a bit to better place himself in the sweet spot…
I bought some subdude II (subwoofer stands) for my Forte IV and it actually made a measurable difference (few dbs here and there). There’s a little less boomy-ness in the bass and the fact that the mid range driver is now lifted a few inches, the vocals sound a bit better.
I used washer/dryer pucks under my Cornwall IVs and the difference was astounding vs. them straight on the floor with those pathetic little “nubs” on the bottom. And it was like $80 total for both speakers.
