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October 2, 2014, 06:34 PM #51
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Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Nice room Bob. Complete with wine/beer fridge on right hand corner ?
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October 2, 2014, 06:51 PM #52
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Myles B. Astor, Senior Editor, PF, www.positive-feedback.com
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October 2, 2014, 08:41 PM #53
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Very nice Bob. Sounds like your plan for break in is very methodical and the best way to approach it.
I was just going to say, "lucky you to have a space large enough to allow racking with room to comfortably get behind the gear rack and wire stuff up"....and then you mention that it will all be in a recessed cabinet off to the side in the end. I agree that getting gear out from between the speakers is a good thing, but man, so is easy access behind gear to properly route cabling and make it NEAT. Maybe you'll end up with rear access in the recessed area too? That would be the best of both worlds.
Regardless, congrats. The space looks fantastic!Avanti Audio
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October 2, 2014, 08:43 PM #54
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Very, very nice!
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October 2, 2014, 09:29 PM #55
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Wow! I can't believe its the same room. Nicely done. Enjoy them in good health. I guess everything went well with insurance.
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October 3, 2014, 01:50 AM #56
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Love the carpet color choice. Brightens, lightens and modernises a previously dark overcast room.
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October 3, 2014, 09:25 AM #57
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Beautiful room Bob !!
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October 3, 2014, 09:26 AM #58
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October 3, 2014, 09:53 AM #59
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Congrats Bob! Beautiful room...very tastefully done. Great job!
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October 15, 2014, 12:14 AM #60
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
The Wilson dealer came on Sunday and spent six hours WASPing the Alexias. They are pretty close to the back wall, much more than I would have imagined. And the tweeters are 12.25' apart, which has my listening position about 15' back. I had some older, broken in REF gear for the setup, then just swapped in my new REF10 and REF75 yesterday. I found new positions for them today, and they now have 4 hours.
I spent a couple hours listening tonight in the almost darkness, with the meters turned off. That little REF75 is quite the amp. It drives the Alexias fine. And the room sounds quite good even with only the tube traps in the corner. If I run the volume up into the 90+ db range I hear things getting a little reverberant and confused with rock and orchestra, so there is some work to be done acoustically, but not so much I am not enjoying the hell out of having music again. (And tonight with a nice little Italian red! Wine that is!)
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October 15, 2014, 07:29 AM #61
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Bob, that's an absolutely beautiful room ! You deserve it, it's taken a while, but I bet it more than makes up for the long wait you had.
Congrats again, and enjoy it for many yearsMark
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October 15, 2014, 07:57 AM #62
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Myles B. Astor, Senior Editor, PF, www.positive-feedback.com
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October 15, 2014, 08:44 AM #63
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Congrats Bob! I agree with Myles on the KT150's.
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October 15, 2014, 10:31 AM #64
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October 15, 2014, 05:25 PM #65
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Oh hell, why wait? I went ahead and ordered up a quad of KT150s. Bring on the sonic bliss!
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October 15, 2014, 05:28 PM #66
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October 15, 2014, 05:42 PM #67
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Myles B. Astor, Senior Editor, PF, www.positive-feedback.com
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October 17, 2014, 08:42 AM #68
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Bob a really nice room, now how can I fix this room
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October 17, 2014, 08:49 AM #69
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Show off
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October 17, 2014, 08:56 AM #70
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
sorry i been missing this thread. everything looks great, youve come along way since ive seen this last. great job and congrats.
Steve
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October 17, 2014, 09:05 AM #71
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October 17, 2014, 09:06 AM #72
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My Systems: http://www.audioshark.org/showthread...481#post158481
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October 17, 2014, 09:21 AM #73
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Bob - do you have a spectrum analyzer that you can use to monitor the peeks of the specific frequencies? If not, I use this one on my iPhone for a quick and dirty analysis. (See below). You may want to get it, put it on the FFT plot mode and have a look. You want to identify where the specific peek(s) are in your room. Mine was 73hz. Above 90db excite which frequencies in your room?
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October 17, 2014, 10:45 AM #74
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October 17, 2014, 10:47 AM #75
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Excellent Mike, thanks. I'll download that app. Did you use a specific test source with that tool?
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October 17, 2014, 10:53 AM #76
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I used pink noise, but also songs which seemed to excite certain frequencies. Try Diana Krall - Narrow Daylight (from The Girl In The Other Room album) or the entire Bob James/David Sanborn album Quartette Humaine. I have other too....but that's a good start.
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October 17, 2014, 10:57 AM #77
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Your room is gorgeous Bob, congrats.
Yes they do look a little too close to wall, but every room is different, tape them out in that spot and then play around with them.
+1000 on the KT150's
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October 17, 2014, 04:52 PM #78
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Congrats on the room. Absolutely lovely.
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October 17, 2014, 04:53 PM #79
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Industry disclaimer: I am a dealer of D'Agostino Electronics, Wilson Audio, McIntosh, Devialet, KEF, Magnepan, Martin Logan, Wadia PMC, Nordost, VPI, Spatial speakers, Audeze, Wyred 4 Sound etc, so anything I say related to Audio/Video is most likely biased...not that there's anything wrong with that!
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October 20, 2014, 10:32 AM #81
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Turntable is being setup, wine club deliveries coming frequently this time of year. In fact, I'm upping my count from the "rare washington wines club" because so far I'm really loving this club. Re the turntable, I just got a new stylus force gauge so can finally dial in the LPS.
And Mike, my brief and hasty pink noise test @85db shows my peak at 63hz and of course also its double @125. I'll get a little more granular later, to see just how high the bump is, but at first glance the overall response was amazingly flat.
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October 20, 2014, 12:38 PM #82
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I find Audiotools is a better iPad suite. It also costs like $50 bucks though. I use the internal iPad mike (which is adjusted by the app)- its not that bad honestly. I had an acoustics guy out to setup my speakers and he was seeing similar things in the bass through his full mike setup.
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October 27, 2014, 11:01 AM #83
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Home ownership is so much fun!
When we bought our place we had identified some water seepage behind the fascia boards on our deck, even had a small holdback on purchase price for future repair. Last week we had the deck railing removed for repair, sandblasting, and powder-coating. It was severely rusted 'cause it wasn't made ready for the Great Pacific Northwet when originally made. That allowed the next contractor to remove the fascia boards to survey the extent of damage. Here's what we found. Great example of how to build a deck wrong...
Worse, we have to demo the rock columns to get access to where the beams attach. F me! I guess my music room modifications will have to wait a while.
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October 27, 2014, 01:16 PM #84
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
I just read through this entire thread and was very happy to see things come together for you, Bob...until ^^^ last ^^^ post. Sorry for your troubles! As a native of this area and having owned several homes here, I can attest to what this wet environment can do to structure.
Best of luck to you!
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October 27, 2014, 06:12 PM #85
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Sorry to hear that Bob, that really blows. Good luck w everything!
Allen
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October 27, 2014, 06:56 PM #86
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Myles B. Astor, Senior Editor, PF, www.positive-feedback.com
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Yep, house is only 7 years old. Deck builder not the same as the home builder, so hopefully the main structure isn't enjoying the same fate. Up against the house all looks well. Damage appears to be isolated to the outer exposed portion of the deck. They completely wrapped the beams with a plastic flashing product, super stong glue. But they did some f'd up things too and didn't allow for moisture to escape, so once behind the pseudo flashing, water just hung around. Add some warm summer weather, some subterrainian termites ( they really like that dark wet environment) and Pacific Northwet winter rain, well, you can see the results. Add the cost of repair and powder coat for the railing, looks to be around $70K. That's more than I expected to pay to remodel the music room.
Ah well, first world problems. Many sharks are dealing with issues far more important than I.
Great thing though... Finally got the LPS tracking dialed in, and having played only a few albums so far, I can say the total system, with only 21 hours, sounds ohhhh so good. The REF10 paired with the REF75 and Alexias, now with the AMG/Benz feeding the Einstein Turntable's Choice, I'm just fucking thrilled! The sometimes strident sound I heard with the Sashas (v1) seems to have been a function of, IMHO, the titanium tweeter. I feel the leading edge of transients no longer has the slight sharpness I had heard before. A long way to go, but the musical joy is taking the edge off the home repairs. Sometimes you just gotta roll with what needs to be done, and thank God for the blessings you have.
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Bob
I guess I just don't understand how you got to this point with the house if it was financed at all. In Florida, also a moisture State, you would have had to have a bank approved WDO inspection before they signed off on the mortgage. Any wood damage, rot or structural damage would have to be repaired by the seller before the buyers mortgage would be approved. Is it different there or did you pay in total and bypass all of those safeguards? Just wondering?
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October 27, 2014, 11:58 PM #90
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October 28, 2014, 03:21 AM #91
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Bob with the wine i hope you did the ass grinding test too.......
Bit of mdf on the top of the structural top to bottom axis will work good there, probably coated matt black for sonics...
Sorry to see this, have had the same in buying a new place & it really blows chunks!!!!. All is good, let the V12 sing! Bound to fix most allergies. Congrats on a great looking room Bob, this really gave me a warm fuzzy to come back to this thread & see what you've been up to. Beautiful room,great components, gorgeous table, bliss.......
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October 28, 2014, 08:45 AM #92
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What really blows, when we moved, I lost my office, my man cave and a decent HT room or family room...
I was thinking of speakers in the areas next to the fireplace in the "enclosed" boxed area, it's about a 4 ft wide area and 7 ft high and 30" deep.
And then we come to the office area. 11x11x11 with a 5 ft wide open door area into a 24x12x10 den area (which I can't touch). So it looks like a little man cave for my office and small 2 chl area. ( headphones or open back speakers like Emerald Physics ). Sometimes moving sucks, but But happy wife, happy life....2chl : Vincent Sp331MkII, W4S STP-SE Stage 2, Kef 201/2, KEF 140, Vapor Breeze, Lumin, Bryston CD, BHA-1, Quicksilver Headamp, HD650, HD800s, HD820's, Dan Clark 1.1, Focal Stellia, OPPO 203, 105. ( Boxed up: Pass Xa-30.5, VPI Classic, Dynavector DV-20XL, Manley Chinook, Cadenza Bronze)
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October 28, 2014, 08:49 AM #93
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I know the feeling in my own stomache just looking at those pictures. I can't imagine the feeling in yours. Yeah, it looks expensive to fix, but I never would have guessed $70K. That's an ulcer, or a lawsuit.
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October 28, 2014, 09:25 AM #94
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Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Gulp! That's one bit of rot! Very sorry for you, especially after all the waiting. Hope you get this sorted soon.
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November 12, 2014, 11:46 AM #96
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Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Sounds like live music?
Yesterday in my home was crazy. Decorating outfit we'd hired to dress up our new home delivered new rugs and some furniture. They also have a unique approach... bring two large vans full of "stuff" including mirrors and a crap-load of knicks and knacks, and basically try to decorate your home in one fell-swoop. Three young men to hang pictures, move furniture, place rugs and cut rug pads, and three design types to create settings then ask what we like and don't like. If you don't like something, it goes back in the van to the store. Keep what you like. As both my wife and I have a taste for fine furnishings, but no ability to decorate, it was a great result. But insane--people moving all throughout the house moving shit around repeatedly, total chaos, and for 5 hours! There is a little ways to go but we're 95% 'decorated' upstairs.
As for myself, it created a lot of anxiety, along with stone masons rebuilding the rock columns outside, and the carpenters working on the deck, other guys pouring some concrete, ugh!
So I head downstairs to listen to some music. Of course, the floorplan is open so its distributed audio to the upper floor. One of the designers happens to also be a musician who plays keyboards. She comes downstairs and admits being shocked she didn't find me playing the piano. I had some George Winston on the turntable. She was convinced she was hearing a real piano being played.
After the dust settled a bit, I invited her downstairs for 'just one song' and played the first cut, side A, of the Bluenote classic "Something Else". She sat in the prime position and I watched her eyes close and her toes begin tapping. When the song was over she stated "I've never heard anything like that, it seemed the musicians were right there in the room playing."
That, to me, is one thing I love about having great kit... sharing, even if only briefly, what recorded music can sound like in your own home!
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November 12, 2014, 01:08 PM #97
Re: Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home
Think what a chic magnet your stereo would have been in college.
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November 12, 2014, 05:40 PM #98
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Oh yes, indeed, along with the little Alfa Romeo Spyder I drove for many years after I left the university. And if I could have my 57 year old brain in my mid-twenties body! Then I'd have been happy to find some magnetic chics.
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Bob,
The joys of construction in the Pacific Northwest. I've been involved in Custom home building over the years in L.A. ,
Michigan, Manitoba, and now Vancouver. this is the worst climate for wood framed const. Ventilation is the key. Do they do
rainscreen details in Oregon?DALE
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and Auditorium A23 cables.
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November 12, 2014, 11:40 PM #100
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Not sure what you mean "rainscreen?"
But in regards the deck repair, we now have a 'system' for ensuring water that might ever get to the beams is channeled away and won't have anopportunity to stick around. Involves a lot of custom flashing, drainable wrap, firring strips, and WR Grace plastic flashing behind every joist hanger. Its a lot of overkill, given pressure treated gluelams which I think were not used originally. I think they used untreated gluelams and tried wrapping them in WRGrace plastic flashing, leaving no escape route for water.
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