Dilemma.

[icehockeyboy]

Not yet, but eventually, we intend to downsize our living accommodation, and I may have to part with my much loved Usher 6371 speakers.

To my ears they do everything right, and the bass is phenomenal.

So, I appreciate the footprint will be similar, but I'll be looking for stand mount speakers and would like to hear your suggestions.

I listen to most things, smooth jazz, classical, you name it, and I play it, so please fire away.

At the moment the finish is gloss black, so possibly a priority, but not 100%.

[Ali Tait]

I would try them in the new place first before changing.

[Macca]

Smaller Ushers?

If it was me I'd make sure the new place, even if smaller overall, had a room big enough to deploy some decent sized floorstanders.

[icehockeyboy]

They are going to have to be smaller as we envisage an apartment that may be first floor in a listed building, or similar.

So far then...smaller Ushers, anything else?

[Macca]

we envisage an apartment that may be first floor in a listed building, or similar.



It's an old people's home isn't it? Don't worry, they will keep you so drugged up you won't remember your name let alone get around to putting a record on.

[icehockeyboy]

It's an old people's home isn't it? Don't worry, they will keep you so drugged up you won't remember your name let alone get around to putting a record on.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Macca]

An apartment in an old building may well have a problem with noise. No building codes in those days, the only thing between you and the place downstairs is the floorboards and the plasterboard on their ceiling. You don't want to move in, set the kit up and as soon as you put a record on all the neighbours come round to complain. It is the worst possible choice of accommodation for a music enthusiast. Unless you are happy with headphones only, and who is? I'd reconsider that bit. How about a small, detached bungalow? Or if it has to be period, some sort of annexe-type thing

[icehockeyboy]

An apartment in an old building may well have a problem with noise. No building codes in those days, the only thing between you and the place downstairs is the floorboards and the plasterboard on their ceiling. You don't want to move in, set the kit up and as soon as you put a record on all the neighbours come round to complain. It is the worst possible choice of accommodation for a music enthusiast. Unless you are happy with headphones only, and who is? I'd reconsider that bit. How about a small, detached bungalow? Or if it has to be period, some sort of annexe-type thing

Hoping it will be in a period property that had proper walls not like in modern buildings, and was a really solid build, again not like the thrown together houses of the last 30 years.

[Macca]

Solid doesn't equate to soundproof though. Modern flats are much better for that. By modern I mean built in the last 20 years or so.

[struth]

headphones are fine. Maybe a bose multi for when guests come round :eyebrows: My brothers gaff would do me... has 2 foot thick walls of solid sandstone.

[Puffin]

I was a community mediator for a few years and mediated loads of noise nuisance disputes. There was one concerning a flat in a converted Edwardian/Victorian mansion. The party that was the subject of the complaint had spent very considerable money having specialist sound deadening rubber type stuff laid under the carpet to try to deaden the footfalls. Obviously not to the complainant's satisfaction. The complainant did not want to have a round table meeting, so don't know what the outcome was.

[Mark Grant]

They are going to have to be smaller as we envisage an apartment that may be first floor in a listed building, or similar.

So far then...smaller Ushers, anything else?

Good headphones as old buildings can allow sound and vibration to travel though ceilings and floors.