Sweet Spot Listening or Space Immersion?


Like many of you I have a dedicated listening room, focused on high quality, two-channel music.  My equipment and room is very much focused on delivering the best SQ to a sweet spot in the middle of my love seat.  It’s truly great!  But it can feel a bit exclusive since it is very difficult for more than two people to enjoy the benefits at the same time.

I also have a whole home audio system, recently implemented, with high quality in-ceiling speakers in several common areas, with a pair of subs in the largest area (living room/kitchen combo).  I also have good outdoor speakers on the system as well.  Because sometimes I just like to be able to wander my home and feel immersed in high quality music.

The new whole home system is built around the new Mcintosh CR106 controller, with a pair of MI128 8-channel amps; KEF CI200QR ceiling speakers, KEF KC62 subs, and KEF Ventura 6s on the patio.  I am streaming from Bluesound Nodes for now (using the CR106 DAC), and I have an MR87 tuner for nostalgia purposes.

Right now I have all the pairs in mono mode and that seems like the right approach to avoid hearing unbalanced stereo sound.  The KEFs have very good off-axis dispersion, which is good because my ceilings are not terribly high.

Anyway, anyone else doing something like this in addition to your dedicated listing room?  Any advice or tips?

mattsca

Nice list of equipment, sounds like you have the party 🎉 house 🏡! May I suggest a Innuos product for your consideration. https://innuos.com/stream-series/  
One question along with the whole house set up do you have a dedicated two channel listening space still? Anyways enjoy the fun!

Lol, right on.  The system is great for entertaining, as we can have good music at the right volume everywhere without having hot spots or dead spots.  Innuos is definitely quality.  I have a spare Lumin U2 Mini as well that I may try out.  I just wonder if the system is resolving enough to hear meaningful differences above something like a Bluesound Node.

Oh, yes, I still have my dedicated listening room!  Hifi Rose RS130, Denafrips Pontus II 15th, McIntosh MCT500, C2800, MC312, B&W 702 s3 pair, REL t/7x pair.  But I keep this room sort of "air gapped" from the rest of the house system.

Put the Hifi Rose 🌹 in your whole house system and get the INNUOS for the dedicated listening space. 

Recently set up some Omega Super 8, with my Decware SE84UFO , sounding amazing!