Loudspeaker placement -- your thoughts?

In an effort to keep this from going the route of pavers (ahem), my question is: How do you differentiate house 3.2 from, say 3.0 or 3.1? Renovation? Moving of listening room? Curious if I'm still on house 1.0 or if somewhere along the way I've qualified for 1.1 or something. :chin
 
In an effort to keep this from going the route of pavers (ahem), my question is: How do you differentiate house 3.2 from, say 3.0 or 3.1? Renovation? Moving of listening room? Curious if I'm still on house 1.0 or if somewhere along the way I've qualified for 1.1 or something. :chin

When we built the NH house, I decided it would be wry, fun, and convenient to use the standard s/w nomenclature to differentiate between the four homes we've owned since 1983.

House 1.0: Baltimore, MD (rowhouse)
House 2.0: 4 BR 2-story contemporary Thing in Milpitas, CA (now "worth" ca. 1.4 million Samoleums :( ).
House 3.0: 4 BR 2-story colonial Harvard, MA
Two (EDIT: semi-) major revs to House 3.0
3.1 Gutted and renovated family room and "bonus room" (expanded/enclosed 3 season porch).
3.2 Gutted and renovated bathrooms
House 4.0: Livin' in it now.

Next rev, with luck, will have one entrance and no exit, and convenient underground location.
 
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When we built the NH house, I decided it would be wry, fun, and convenient to use the standard s/w nomenclature to differentiate between the four homes we've owned since 1983.

House 1.0: Baltimore, MD (rowhouse)
House 2.0: 4 BR 2-story contemporary Thing in Milpitas, CA (now "worth" ca. 1.4 million Samoleums :( ).
House 3.0: 4 BR 2-story colonial Harvard, MA
Two major revs to House 3.0
3.1 Gutted and renovated family room and "bonus room" (expanded/enclosed 3 season porch).
3.2 Gutted and renovated bathrooms
House 4.0: Livin' in it now.

Next rev, with luck, will have one entrance and no exit, and convenient underground location.

Aahh, ok, makes sense. I guess that makes this place house 1.2 or so, ish, or something.
 
When we built the NH house, I decided it would be wry, fun, and convenient to use the standard s/w nomenclature to differentiate between the four homes we've owned since 1983.

House 1.0: Baltimore, MD (rowhouse)
House 2.0: 4 BR 2-story contemporary Thing in Milpitas, CA (now "worth" ca. 1.4 million Samoleums :( ).
House 3.0: 4 BR 2-story colonial Harvard, MA
Two major revs to House 3.0
3.1 Gutted and renovated family room and "bonus room" (expanded/enclosed 3 season porch).
3.2 Gutted and renovated bathrooms
House 4.0: Livin' in it now.

Next rev, with luck, will have one entrance and no exit, and convenient underground location.

Hmmm. How would I define my own residence in this manner? I tore down the awful building I had been living in and built a new one in the same place. Would this be 2.0, or 1.999999... ?
 
@mhardy6647 Mark, what did you ever end up doing with the placement on your speakers? Leave them close to as they are in the pics? That's quite the large room above a garage, IIRC, especially being a square room. My room above my 3 car garage is about 14' wide and 32 feet long. The 3-car garage itself is 24' deep x 36 wide but with the ceiling slope upstairs, it gave me 14' width with 5' tall knee walls sloping up to 8' ceilings. I, too, have carpet floors which I do like for absorption but I have done nothing yet for wall treatments.

Love your room. I run out of space with the 14' width with the 6' & 4' Barzillay cabinets being in between my Belle clones. But, it's a beautiful cabinet and it will be repurposed somewhere else after I build a new rack for that walls gear. I move the couch around to where I can listen to gear on the long wall where the Belles are on the short wall. Maybe not optimum, but it works for me. I have tinnitus so my hearing isn't so picky as to warrant going too crazy like in my 20's, 30's and early 40's. lol
 
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Other than bass impact I am pretty darned pleased with the big Frankenaltecs in the big, square room.
They ain't bad, just different than they were in "3.2"
They're kinda like this -- ok, exactly like this.

DSC_5909 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr


I don't move 'em too far, or too often, because they are kinda big and kinda heavy...
 
Have you considered remedying the situation with DSP? You are living free after all.

Or one of your 6+ equalizers (5 of which were probably found at the Cambridge town dump)

Or maybe you are an old-school purist (exceptions for anything Franken of course)? :)
 
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DSP is on the long-ish list.
The subwoofer amp has DSP thingies including a programmable delay time...which seems like it might be good for something.
Heck, I even bought one of those calibrated electret mics from PartsExpress... I don't really have anything interesting to hook it too, though.

🙄
 
Feet, man... feet! (Footers? Spikes?)

Or did you try that already? I don't recall...
 
I've tried hockey pucks. (is that the Don Rickles Tweak?)
I've been meaning -- and meaning -- to invest in some spikes. Figure I need six for best results.



I don't understand what this means 😐

I don’t understand “No customer computer with Roon” either :confused::chin;) I don’t even remember what was supposed to go where spellcheck inserted customer.

REW EQ software, thanks @Katalyst , runs with Roon’s parametric equalizer function on any reasonably competent computer. Calibrated microphone required , which I think you just bought.
 
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