I have heard the best...

[gbegland]

...and I can't have it.

Friday evening we took my system and the studio monitor prototypes over to Starke Lake Studios.

http://www.starkelakestudios.com/index.html

I've been wanting to hear my system in a really large, well controlled room. Wow, was it ever a revelation. Nothing will ever be the same at home now that I know the true potential of what I've created and just how amazing it can sound without the influence of a small room. Starkes room is just over 30ft*60ft with 15ft high ceilings. It looks 'live' but it is rather tight and dry sounding in there. We were there until 4am just listening to track after track, mesmerized by it all. The ambiance, the detail, the sense of space enveloping you was just too much. There was no sense of "sameness" to any recordings. If it was a dry, studio produced track, that's what you got. No additional room sound layered on top. If it was a minimal mic'd, audiophile thing, you were transported to a sonic bubble, a little holographic representation of the event. So now that apparent boundaries anywhere near a speaker seem to blur this effect, I'm moving out of my house and buying a small warehouse and acoustically treating it. Anyone wanna move your system in? I'll have plenty of space!

Sorry for the crap cell phone picts. I forgot the real camera

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Greg

[Jonasz]

Well, you can always place them in your back yard, that's a BIG revelation too! :-)

[JonMarsh]

I bet that was interesting and fun, if a bit frustrating for the obvious reasons! Doubtless a bit similar to what I experienced setting up the new one's at GF's, but then, that's where they're going to live from now on. The right room and open space certainly makes a difference- and in a situation like your experiment here, it sort of converts the system into a quasi near field setup, as your primary sound and early arrivals only have the floor boundary. I had a big living room once in Boulder, which had sliding doors separating two halves, and we just put the speakers inside the edge of the doors, which gave a huge opens space behind them. Worked very well...


Here's what things look like over at GF's- in the early stage last weekend; this weekend we've already been replacing some of the furniture (Salamander Designs SDAV3/7022 under the TV), and have more work to do on setup. But last weekend's was enough to know that acoustically it should work out. ~1.5 meters from rear walls, 2.5 meters from side walls.

[gbegland]

Lookin' great Jon! Now, about that coffee table. Looks like we need a bonded logic pad for serious listening duty.

[gbegland]

Here's a panoramic shot from another phone:

[Carl V]

Well, you can always place them in your back yard, that's a BIG revelation too! :-)

I have done this on many occasions while measuring Speakers or Drivers.

It is always a revelation to hear without the room effect.

Which is why the outdoor HT set-up is revelatory. Besides fun.

WOW, for the Studio space...and good luck with the Warehouse.
There was a guy in Dallas who had huge Custom Edgar horns in a
defunct old time movie theater....he was a tube amp(211s) guy....
Plus a huge Horn SUB. Ear to ear grins.

[---k---]

Very cool. I would love to have that experience. I've thought before that if my wife and i ever move out to the middle of no where with lots of land, i would have build a separate building for my home theater. Maybe a big metal building, half garage workshop and half home theater listening room.

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[wkhanna]

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Friday evening we took my system and the studio monitor prototypes over to Starke Lake Studios.


Greg

Wow!
What a neat opportunity!
Not many of us will ever have the chance to hear our 'babies' where there they are at their very best.
What fun that must have been.

[JRT]

...and I can't have it. Friday evening we took my system and the studio monitor prototypes over to Starke Lake Studios. I've been wanting to hear my system in a really large, well controlled room. Wow, was it ever a revelation. Nothing will ever be the same at home now... So now that apparent boundaries anywhere near a speaker seem to blur this effect, I'm moving out of my house.

You don't have to move...

In that, you should know that I have no affiliation with anybody or anything related.

[gbegland]

Thanks for that JRT! I had only read a little bit about this product, so the additional detail offered here is very interesting.

[sfdoddsy]

Space is good.