{"id":12396,"date":"2017-07-26T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2021-12-27T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T09:14:17","slug":"hfa-audio-setup-history-24-breaking-down-walls-and-building-others-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/hfa-audio-setup-history\/hfa-audio-setup-history-24-breaking-down-walls-and-building-others-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"HFA Audio Setup History 24 – Breaking down walls (and building others) – July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

After having enjoyed one year’s worth of the renewed Media Room, I got that itch again<\/h2>\n

After the troubles with room modes that I could not get sorted I reverted to using the secondary room as a media room again. After all, I spent most of my time behind the computer so I might as well dedicate an entire room to that, with an optimized audio monitoring system, right? Well, turns out that lately, I don’t spend so much time behind the computer anymore, as increasingly I am writing articles on the Macbook and even the iPad. That, and the fact that I am accumulating more and more speakers that are standing like audience rows in front of the main system, made that I wanted to revisit the secondary listening room idea.<\/p>\n

Now, this idea was initially quickly\u00a0abandoned due to the bad room acoustics. But this was only really an issue because I could not set up the listening seats\u00a0in the ideal spot. This original 3- room apartment really is royally-sized, but if you are a crazy audiophile as I am, and break down the walls that separate the two bedrooms and hallway, then you end up without a bedroom. No problem: I just positioned the bed at the other end of the Media Room and Bob’s my uncle. But not quite. When the computer setup was exchanged for a full system, the only position for the listening seats was sort of in the middle of the room. And that was exactly where in this case the acoustics were worst.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how I thought of it but suddenly I realized that I could split off part of the kitchen to turn it into a makeshift bedroom, thereby freeing the rear side of the secondary room to allow the seats further to the back and right into the sweet spot.<\/p>\n

Now, before I could do this, the recently closed off hallway had to be opened again. After all, how else was I going to get to the main listening room if not through the kitchen?<\/p>\n

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Here we go again!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sigh – I made this wall way too sturdily!<\/em><\/p>\n

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First peek through – still a magical moment.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Boy, what a mess!<\/em><\/p>\n

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And some nice new plastering to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Building the new wall in the kitchen, this time cleverly built, with easy removal in mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Last time view from kitchen to living room…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Above: finished kitchen wall, with the bed still open to the living room. This I intend to separate with a low wall or perhaps a dressoir of some sort with a TV on top.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next Chapter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Overview of all HFA Audio Setups:<\/h3>\n

HFA Audio Setups Overview<\/a><\/p>\n

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