Ideas on building a listening room!!

go to cardas website, www.cardasaudio.com and read speaker placement. Also find all the info you can on room accoustics and build the room for specific equiptment. Wish i could do that !! Good Luck

The Stereophile website (www.stereophile.com) has an archives section with three excellent articles about choosing/designing a listening room. The most useful would be Tom Norton's Jan '95 article, "Building the Hi-Fi House". A great place to start!

The first two comments give good advice, but even better, I think, is this: get F. Alton Everest's Sound Studio Construction on a Budget and his Master Handbook of Acoustics. The latter sounds better but the former is much newer, and better on room-treatment devices. Both tell you how to analysis your room for main resonant nodes, and Master Handbook has a particular suggestion for dimensions. But don't do what I did with a dedicated room: put in a sloping wall-ceiling (cathedral ceiling). Hard to work with! If you want advice on homemade RPG-style diffusors, get in touch with me--but you'll need a table saw to make them. Good luck!

You might want to contract someone professional to help you with the designing. It is a rather large and expensive undertaking and something that paying the extra money on to make sure it is done absolutely right is well worth it.

i believe that all have given you good advice - do you need a contractor !!