For those with a dedicated listening room, What is your home's Sq Ft?

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  1. Tony Plachy

    Tony Plachy Senior Member

    Location:
    Pleasantville, NY
    My situation is very unique so do not take it as typical. We bought a house that a modern architect had built for himself and his family. The house as a very open floor plan. The main floor of the consist of an entry foyer, kitchen and a great room that has a small dinning area. The great room's dimensions are 27' x 30' x 11'. We bought the house because my wife wanted to move so I agreed to the move with the stipulation that I could but a new stereo system and put it in the great room. I had to work another 9 years until we paid off the mortgage on this home (we owned the house we sold). I am not sure I got the better deal in the bargain with my wife. :sigh: Our house is 4000 square feet.
     
  2. wareagle69

    wareagle69 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Houston Texas
    House is one level, +/- 3400 sq.ft. Listening room was initially a "Texas basement" i.e. the unfinished space over the 3 car garage was floored for storage. Stairway up to the "basement" was in the garage. Had the space built out for a dedicated HT and 2 channel listening/media room.

    Dimensions are 20 ft. x 18 ft. Ceiling has angles in the corners due to the constraints of the roof line, but most of it is 9.5 ft. high. Double walls, (sheet rock on studs), with both walls stuffed with insulation. Walls have a 3 inch gap between them. Solid insulated door. I can play music or movies louder than is healthy and sound is not audible outside the house or in the main living areas downstairs. I feel very fortunate to have a dedicated space.
     
  3. Slippers-on

    Slippers-on Forum Resident

    Location:
    St.Louis Mo.
    2400 sqft home. Another 1200 sqft basement with 800sqft of it finished. Listening room in the basement is 14x16
     
  4. wownflutter

    wownflutter Nocturnal Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Indiana
    I'm starting to warm to the idea of a basement system. It seems like it would give excellent turntable isolation.
    The idea of sump pump failure scares me though. I do have a separate insurance policy for my lp collection but still....
     
  5. Mike-48

    Mike-48 A shadow of my former self

    Location:
    Portland, Oregon
    You are right to be scared. When we had trouble with moisture, I found out that our homeowner's policy specifically excluded damage from water seeping into a basement. That hurt! I suppose if I were to do it over, I'd talk to moisture and drainage specialists before building.
     
  6. wgb113

    wgb113 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chester County, PA
    Ensuring a dry basement is key. We had our french drains redone, a second battery-backup sump pump installed, and regraded the 6' around the foundation outside. We also sealed the poured concrete foundation (and floor) with a product intended to reduce the likeliness of water pushing up through the floor should the french drain system become overwhelmed. Twice a year we have the gutters/drainage cleaned and flushed. Knock on wood in the two years that it's been finished it's been bone dry.
     
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  7. timind

    timind phorum rezident

    My next door neighbor had a sump pump failure last year; what a mess. Basements in Indiana are a risky proposition, especially when your house is built on a former cornfield.
     
  8. BMWCCA

    BMWCCA Forum Resident

    Location:
    Central Virginia
    Building permit filed for heated/finished 2-story @2400 sq. ft. with 1,700 sq. ft. unfinished basement, plus 2-car garage with studio above, and bonus room on main house second-floor. Total square-footage with all porches, garage, basement, and unfinished bonus/studio will be around 5,600. The second-floor bonus room is my intended speaker room which I will finish after recovering from the rest of the house construction and cost. Lots of thought went into listening areas as I drew the plans:

    Great Room (main system with JBL 4345) 17'-6" x 18' with cathedral ceiling, open-plan living area adjacent to kitchen, entry and dining
    Studio (secondary system with JBL 250ti) 11' x 14'-8" nine-foot ceiling
    Speaker hobby room with over a dozen more speakers (upstairs within gable w/shed dormer) 17'-6" x 18' nine-foot ceiling
     
  9. TheIncredibleHoke

    TheIncredibleHoke Dachshund Dog Dad

    Location:
    Brooklyn, NY
    Yeah, mine works really well right now. The floor (covered in a thick oriental rug) is super solid. You can run through the room right in front of the turntable and nothing skips. No windows in this room, but I'v got some old paintings and a thick leather couch to absorb sound.
     
  10. quicksilverbudie

    quicksilverbudie quicksilverbudie

    Location:
    Ontario
    1800 square feet
    finished basement (grateful deadicated room) is 21 x 12 1/2
    :wave:
     
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  11. mds

    mds Forum Resident

    Location:
    PA
    I own an old twin that has three finish floors and an unfinished basement. The finished floors total approximately 3100 sq ft. The kids have all moved out so the house is open to create as many music rooms as I wish, well as much as the wife will allow. Three official and two bedroom set ups. The dedicated music room on the first floor is 165 sq ft (11 x 15 speakers on short wall) and has only a sofa and wall sound treatments. The larger room is 304 sq ft (19 x 16 speaker on short walls) and has a 5.1 surround sound system with rather large speakers for all channels and a very high sloped ceiling. This room is shared with the wife but is large enough that the front speakers are all free standing and unblocked by furniture. We entertain guests, listen to music and watch movies in this room. The third is 165 sq ft and is a repossessed bedroom now that my children have all moved out. It is now my computer/PC gaming/office room with both a desk top system and a system with tower speakers set across from my desk and up against the far wall. The key to assembling so many rooms besides having a wonderful wife who lets you is just get old, the kids grow up, move out and presto lots of rooms to take over.
     
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  12. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

    Location:
    Ottawa, Canada
    I'm about 1800 sq.ft.

    My Surround Sound room is 17' by 12' (Family Room), but my music room is bigger due to the fact that my living room, dining room and Kitchen are all together.
     
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  13. nolazep

    nolazep Burrito Enthusiast

    2600 sq ft but the listening room is the smallest bedroom. It's tiny.
     
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  14. schugh

    schugh Forum Resident

    ~3000 sq. feet + ~1200 sq. feet in the walkout basement. The media room is in the basement ~370 sq. feet.
     
  15. Seafinch

    Seafinch Preferred Patron

    Location:
    United States
    1250 SF house plus a 210 SF renovated detached garage turned office/listening room.
     
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  16. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    House: 4,000 square feet.
    Listening Room: 13' X 12'
     
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  17. rl1856

    rl1856 Forum Resident

    Location:
    SC
    3800 sqft
    12 x 30 x 8 listening room on the 2nd floor
    16 x 20 x 8 family room on the 1st floor, HT equipment installed

    We purchased and renovated a c1970 brick house. Very "closed" inside; we knocked out walls, redid the kitchen and bathrooms etc. House was a 5br, but I combined 2 adjoining rooms to create one large room. I left both entry doors in place so the room can be subdivided later if needed.

    Speakers are along a short wall, at one side of the room. LP storage is behind (Kallax). Equipment setup on one side, along a long wall; Equipment storage along the opposite long wall. Still trying to dial in bass response.
     
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  18. Kyhl

    Kyhl On break

    Location:
    Savage
    1,800sf with about 300sf as a media room, treated with bass traps and first reflection traps.
     
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  19. House de Kris

    House de Kris VVell-known member

    Location:
    Texas
    My home is around 2400 sq ft. Listening room is 20x30ft, or about 25% of the total floor space. Seems about right.

    Obstacle was getting a room large enough. I knocked out a couple walls to combine a living room, dining room, and office into a single "great" room. Next obstacle was fitting the speakers in there. I asked the realtor how tall the walls were, "standard height" she said. Reality turned out to be only 7.5' tall. Made squeezing my 8.5' speakers in there difficult. They fit when located 9' into the room.
     
  20. wownflutter

    wownflutter Nocturnal Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Indiana
    Do you have a wife to contend with? Lol
     
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  21. Manimal

    Manimal Forum Resident

    Location:
    Southern US
    Similar to my last Apartment and room..I liked that size room.
    In a smaller rental house (for another two months) smaller room and I hate it.
    12 x 14 or 15 would be nice.
     
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  22. Fr8dog3510

    Fr8dog3510 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Northern CA
    Home - 1800 sq ft
    My room - 11x12x9

    When we bought this house a few years ago I had to downsize. WAF was real low as audio was taking over the living space. I was "given" this tiny room for my audio stuff. We called it an office since there's no closet. I bi#!@%d and moaned. Best move I ever made. Sold off most of my gear and started from scratch. Been fun trying different speakers. Currently have a pair of Spatial Audio M4's. They seem to work well in this room.
     
  23. nwdavis1

    nwdavis1 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Detroit
    The size if fine. My problem with it is the complete lack of windows and airflow.
     
  24. wownflutter

    wownflutter Nocturnal Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Indiana
    Well, finally signed a purchase agreement on a house.
    It looks like the room that will be designated for the audio system will be 12 x 21. This is about 3 feet narrower than my current room.
    I think I'll be able to work with that. I hope to decorate it like many I've seen on this sight. It will be a slow process though.
    It will probably be around 45 more days before we start moving. I'll post pictures of the new setup.

    Now I've just got to decide between the short wall or the long wall.....
     
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  25. action pact

    action pact Music Omnivore

    That's exactly my situation.
     
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