The ideal listening room

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

My listening room could never be a vault. I like my music. but I won't create a room where it becomes so important that I would be almost afraid of inviting 'the others' into it at the risk of seeming....wierd.

In an old TAS (I think) they gave dimensions of 10 x 16 x 26 as ideal dimensions and this seems to be supported (roughly) by various articles I have read since. I tend to lean toward Stehno's idea of sloping walls to eliminate any parallel surfaces myself. There was an article in Stereophile about a place that built a room around their stereo equipment and they did this as well.

if i was going to build the ideal listening room, I would go listen to the experts on how they design rooms or hire an expert to design the room for you. at he2003 this year in san francisco, they had a panel of speakers talking about designing and building audio and video rooms. very informative.