r/listeningspaces

Mostly for ambient/jazz/experimental. One day dual decks and a rotary mixer will replace the couch.

Excuse the filters, been mad into this space lately wanted to convey how it feels ya feel x

This is where all our evenings and weekends happen. We are proud of it. You all keep listening.

Could it be better? Defo. But it's getting better all the time :)

We work with what we've got.

Edit - equipment if you're interested:

• Turntable: Technics SL-1500C
• Cartridge: Ortofon 2M Red
• Phono stage: Cambridge Audio Alva Solo MM phono preamp
• Amplifier: Yamaha A-S501 integrated amplifier
• Speakers: KEF Q150 bookshelf speakers
• Subwoofer: Cambridge Audio Minx X201 sealed active subwoofer (out of shot)
• Network streamer: Cambridge Audio AXN10
• Cassette deck: Yamaha KX-580
• MiniDisc deck: Sony MDS-JB980QS
• Sony MZ-R900 in blue
• Sony MZ-R37 MiniDisc (daily driver)
• A few other MiniDisc player/recorders out of shot :P
• Cat - Maine Coon, she's lush :)

New gear, new rug!
Gryphon Diablo, Sonus Faber maxima amator, Mark Levinson No.519, my old GyroDec (awaiting pylon suspension upgrade and an apheta3 cartridge), new balanced interconnects

Unfortunately lots of glass in my current room but sounds v good IMO. The retirement room is much bigger and minimal glass!!

For my new listening room, I bought a pair of Klipsch R-100M speakers for $8.00! Meant to be temporary while I searched for better ones. They did sound good, especially for the price I paid! I just upgraded to a pair of KEF Q150 speakers. In like new condition. Paid $250 on FB Market place. Sounds great!

Long time lurker first time posting. I've enjoyed so many setups throughout the years on this subreddit and others, got inspired, I've always wanted to have my own setup. Finally got do it and took me a while to get to where I'm but I'm really happy how it turned out. Ready to share with you guys. I just need a coffee table and some plants.

I work 7 days on and 7 days off and fly home every other week. This is my converted school bus listing position for my weeks in Tulsa while working.

Full stack of Schiit , mono locked Vidars with Monitor Audio Silver 50’s, pair of Micro 3000’s and a Dayton Ultimax in infinite baffle under the couch…

Not my main listening room but, I love music in the bedroom too.
Rotel amp, Bowers & Wilkins CM1s, Pro-ject turntable, SONOS streamer.

Shout out to Olympic Records in Providence, RI.

Khruangbin, Con Todo El Mundo steamed via Tidal and Wiim. The digital side opens a lot doors.

Some of you may remember my DIY diffuser project I posted about, some months ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/diysound/s/Eyo5JRgpXK).

The Listening Lounge has evolved quite a bit since then. I first added two 6" bass absorbers and three diffusers (all from GIK) on the back wall.

To further help reduce first reflections hitting me from the back wall, I also pulled the sofa forward about two feet, which helped a lot.

I then realized that it created a rather big gap between the sofa and the room treatments, so I figured why not fill up the gap with a sofa table?

So, I learned how to make walnut/epoxy river tables from raw slabs and built me two - one 7' sofa table and an end-table, both in the same style with a blue "river" that also incorporates LEDs.

Very happy with those, and learned a lot from those projects. (Wife was slightly less excited about surrendering one of our garage bays-turned-wood-workshop, but sometimes the end justifies the means and now she's happy. 😁)

I then went ahead and built a coffee table (also walnut+epoxy, but not with "river") This sounded like a great idea until Wife pointed out that "we already have all the coffee tables we need." OK, so what now?

After some thinking I decided to turn it into a back-lit piece of wall art, and that's where we are at now.

All in all, three very fun projects where I learned a whole lot more about woodworking and not least epoxy, beyond what I already learned from the diffuser project.

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vincent sv-227
merason the reuss
piega coax 70
mainly i listen to files with roon