Going to California III

Continuing our search for a new location for our home and the store; moving from Boulder, CO to the general Silicon Valley area…

South Bay-ish 

Another larger home, looking out over San Jose-ish [hence the above song… :-)], which means expensive, but but not as expensive as it would some other places on the Peninsula!

You know, there is this short wall versus long wall blues that strike us when looking at these homes…

It looks better to have the speakers along the long wall when there is a window like this. And in fact this setup will probably sound better [because there will be almost no wall reflections of the sound from the left and right walls]. But the width [in the case depth] is so narrow that the listening chair / couch would be up against the opposing wall. And even then, position the listening chairs at the point farthest from the speakers, it would be mostly nearfield listening All Of The Time. In this giant of a room, even.

So we go through calculations and measurements. How nearfield is TOO nearfield? 8 feet? 10 feet? more?

Horns are a little different than regular box speakers with cone drivers. They take maybe 20%? more distance to ‘gel’ the sound.

But then again, we just listened to these exact speakers at Newport with the sweet spot chair about 6 feet from the front of the speakers.

However, it would be nice to not HAVE to listen to the system nearfield ALL of the time. Right?

And as big as this house was, there was really only one room for one system. And the master bath was tiny. Just sayin’ 🙂

So, gonna keep looking…

[Yes. Another southern CA song… Going to run out of videos before we find a place…]