![]() Over the pandemic, Dorsey was asked to level up a recreation room for one client in Texas seeking a quiet listening space for teens. The living room of Atlantic Records COO Julie Greenwald uses soft furnishings and strategic speaker placement to ensure perfect sound. “Our backgrounds are in traditional furniture design, so we’ve always prioritized crafting a versatile product which can hold its own both in a dedicated listening room or beyond.” But you might have to wait for it: Symbol’s current lead time for order fulfillment is 20 to 22 weeks for most products.ĭallas interior designer Chad Dorsey charmed visitors with his listening room scheme in the 2020 San Francisco Decorator Showcase which featured a custom-made fireplace created by Strike (a brand created by Dorsey himself), the Kekke Longchair by Piet Boon, and a hand-painted ceiling by Porter Teleo. “Because our furniture doesn’t resemble traditional audio racks, we’ve found that’s allowed folks to integrate vinyl and audio into their homes in ways they wouldn’t have otherwise,” says Walker Tovin, brand manager for Symbol. ![]() ![]() One example, the Aero media cabinet, has a midcentury vibe and can be customized with swivel bins for tucking records out of view, but not out of reach. They offer polished versions of the archetypal wooden record stands and crates, but their specialty is custom furniture that can be seamlessly worked into a dining room or living room scheme. Symbol Audio, based in Nyack, New York, is a design and audio company helmed by a crew of audiophile makers seeking sleeker, more sophisticated options for media storage in listening spaces. Organizing the voluminous collection boils down to a serious strategy: “By genre, then by decade of the artist’s first release, then alphabetically.” “Inevitably I’ll want to listen to records at the same time that my husband wants to watch television. The set up works well, though the sound, as it does, still carries. I’ve also used a record cabinet to create a partial wall that differentiates the music room from the foyer.” “This is really just to create a sense of a separate space from the rest of the house. The solution for now, Griffin shares, has been to wrangle two large record cabinets against the longest border of the room to create two “walls.” “One is made of several rattan room dividers which sit behind a pony wall,” says Griffin. I’ve rearranged it countless times,” she says. “I’ve been fooling with my music room forever. Griffin, who lives in an open-concept home and utilizes a VPI Prime turntable and Wharfedale EVO 4.3s speakers in her setup, had to get clever with creating sound-friendly borders to define her music zone. She regularly flashes what’s headed for the turntable via her Instagram handle (Spinning recently: Warren Zevon, Roger Daltrey, and El Chicano.) Pam Griffin, an anthropology professor in California and doyenne of vinyl has a personalized 12-by-13-foot listening space and more than 5,800 records.
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