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We have made a decision that we do go for the hardwood floors in listening room. We end up with unfinished quarter sawn red oak with Vermister" waterbase urethane. We will try to render the project in September.

This will imply to remove the whole installation (with exception of midbasshorns), disconnect everything and clear up room as the way is I just move into the house.  This is a lot of work but it also some interning opportunity.

Since, I move in this house 2.5 years back there were a lot of chargers that took place, different from my initial intends to use of this listening room. Using the listening room for over 2 year I have developed some habits that might not be what I initially thought. In addition over the last few months we knocked two walls in the listening room: one that I described during the Piano accommodation project and another that we did last week. That all very dramatically changed the feel of the listening room, in my view it made it better.

Also, the last few months Amy spread her touch to the listening room. Amy does not share my interests about Audio but she does endorse and very enthusiastically support my concept of listening room. She got her Master of Viola from Yale, plays more or less regularly actively with local people and she is the most praised, beloved, inspiriting, stimulating and sweetest listening companion I even had privilege to share my sweet spot. We hooked up as two Bruckner-loving mamzies and we very much in our listening room to stay. So, her presence made us to revise some postulates and requirements we impose to our listening room.  Amy very likes the notion of dedicated room, solely designated to consumption of music, still she love that this “dedicated” room is not isolated in house but organically imbedded into the living environment. She altered the room with her live music requirement and with her idiosyncratic sense of esthetics.  My initials sentiment regarding her perception of esthetics was not very welcoming. Her undergraduate degree was in medieval history and she has appreciation of medieval expressivity. To me it felt a bit “too catholic” but as my appreciation of her grew I got much softer to all of it. Now I am full aboard and I am very much like her taste and her capacity to convert my nerdy main cave into a beautiful Amy-inspired listening room.  The hardwood floors and Asian rugs was very much her project initially but turn out to be something that I want very much as well.

We are planning to modify the sweet spot to accommodate multiple people, to create options for “resting” and entertaining at the listening spot, to have a provision to have drinks and meals at the sweet spot, to be able to have sex in there or just a comfortable spot to browse internet while listening some Bach. I am thinking about cables accommodation, the need for new power entire in the floors.  The layout of Macondo will not change but the way how I bring cables to it will change: I juts need next halls in the floor in the new locations.

I still consider powering my entire installation from Pure Power regenerator but I do consider locating it at different spot. I also very seriously consider to put Milq in the basement and to have the speaker cables from under the floor. The reason behind it is that if we have kids than I would not like to have two very hot and very dangers Milqs sitting in the mid of the listening rooms. There are very many reasons why it would NOT be a good idea to hide Melquiades under the floors, I do know all cons and pros and I am considering all options.

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