Thaddeus Smith

No stairs, hopefully. Congrats on the milestone!

Have fun guys, sorry I couldn't make it this time around.

I will make a note to admit that you were correct when that time comes.

Aha, I see! Thanks for the clarification.

All good info, however I'm not new to the speakers themselves. Mine are also highly modified and not standard La Scalas. The tech piece is another area that I've got quite sorted, so I'm more focused on the effects of the room itself.

So is it better to have the open loft area to my back, thereby reducing or eliminating rear reflections? Should the listening position be parallel or perpendicular to the angled ceilings? I thought I read a comment from you recently (but cannot locate) indicating the angled ceilings in these types of rooms were an acoustic nightmare. I haven't any grand plans for a dedicated room on the order of what Rudy has put together, but I'd certainly like to know if there's specific things I should avoid or should mitigate in the proposed space.

Thanks! My setup isn't really conducive for glass tops, but nobody is putting stuff on them either.

To that point.. I look through the plans from time to time and do some day dreaming about the future, which left me wondering what I might need to deal with in the loft space for listening purposes.

Nah. We're on our land and the current house is falling apart, but we'll own it outright in a few years and then build the new house 50 yrds or so north in the pasture. We'll raise the current house to ground and use the foundation for a new barn, keep the current detached garage as-is, etc. We've planted a flag in this design after browsing through countless options - it's got good basic structure that will support the remaining few years our girls will have with us at the time of build, and the layout is good for a few modifications we want at the time of build. I'm 38 currently, so I'm hoping stairs won't be a problem for a bit.

parallel to the floor or ceiling?

2 channel with a TV. La Scalas (ish) with the nice open back ESS drivers and TH-Spud clones will all be on the front stage. Just a single listening position. Side wall heights are 4ft and the loft dimensions are 23' x 24'. The build is many years off and will be our grow-old-in-it house, but this loft space will likely be my primary spot for listening and office/den type paraphernalia. So how would you orient within the space, what are the compromises, and what are the strengths? I'd be going with carpet, thinking of shortening and raising the window, plenty of flexibility for running dedicated circuits, etc.

Hire an electrician.

I'd suggest going straight from the modi to the speakers and see what you get for results. You could also just go straight from the PC to the speakers.

Kenneth Pape, you dum dum.

Yeah, just not in the cards right now man. Fine, 5 years. The 396's are probably always going to be my desired second pair of speakers, but now simply isn't the time to be buying.

I guess that's a hard no on my offer?

But what else have you added/changed to the house as a whole?

I'm betting he means this https://www.danleysoundlabs.com/products/subwoofers/tapped-horns/th-spud/ I'm not sure how many people, if any, have implemented this in the clones. Mine are certainly fixed in position.

Leave the 396's at my place on your way down to Beaumont and I'll figure out how to pay you in the next decade.

Several in attendance have a copy of what I've collected, so there should be no shortage of offline media when combined with what you're bringing.

I've had this 3par storage cabinet since earlier in the year, but finally put it in place today. Has a nice open fron with beveled edges and blanking panels, then a perforated door for the rear. All the amps and xo and receiver bits at the bottom. Digital media playback devices in the middle. The large storage server at the top is my gaming pc, roon server, etc. Most of the drive bays are empty, but I had it laying around and it fits the large gpu and dual xeons, etc. All in all, a nice tidy stack.

i sure still like my th-spud clones. small footprint and plenty of output side by side at the front of the room.

What's the latest from ESS? You guys finally get your parts/replacements or are they still dealing with stock issues?

ooof. all that gear on a wobbly tv tray.

Eh, twice was enough today.