The ideal listening room


When building a hi-fi or reference system, most times one give more emphasis on the equiment it self not having a lot a choices but to sacrifes sound's quality due to a poor listenig room with components trying to blend on a living room. But, what if you have the option to desing your own listenig room, how will it be? What materials, dimensions either corners or narrow end walls...
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Perhaps what I would consider the most important is a shorter say 7 feet ceiling behind the speakers and then head updward at a nice slope from there.

I would also want the side walls to fan/toe outward as they go from front (behind the speakers) to back. But I would probably not want the room any deeper than perhaps 22 ft and I would want the room entirely closed off to pressurize.

So I guess the room dimensions would be something like 13 ft wide by 7 ft high behind the speakers. Then fanning out and up to perhaps 17 ft wide and 12 feet high at the back of the room.

I would also half-round all corners with a large radius or at the very least all corners behind the speakers.

The other things are pretty common ie lack of windows, install bookshelves, thick carpeting and pad, etc..

-IMO