About users with hidden agendas

OP after setting up enough square or rectangle rooms with 8,9, or 10 foot ceiling you kinda know where you're at.

In Master M’s laboratory not so much. I would only enter with permission and then only with a guide. I’ve been in a few (Tesla) labs in my life. You just don’t touch stuff or enter without permission.

The only issue I have with that set up is the wife listens to more Stereo than me.
She would take a rake, a hoe and most likely a machete and clean the place out.
She knows what works for her too. 2 hours she would be up and running stuffing pillows for starters in the corners after that.

Sorry Master M. She would offer CPR if you needed it after your 2-3 year journey to get there.

I have no doubt your Sanctum is the pinnacle of sonic genius. Your selection in decor is rather spectacular too. I personally can see the work it would take to get a room to look like that and sound good. That wouldn’t be a problem for me if in the end it DIDN’T stay that way.

Knowing we can achieve perfect sound at the expense of having to visually block what I’m surrounded by is not something me or the wife could do. Experimenting yes, permanent NO.

After 40+ years in the same house, she know the rooms as good as me.

I just watched her move the dog from in front of the right monitor, the dog went back over and laid down. She got a couch pillow close to the same size and dropped it on the left side in front of the speaker.. LOL I never said a word..

I did get "THE LOOK" when I called the dog though.. :-) She snatched the pillow back up..

Regards

First: i never presented my room to be a model of what people must do acoustically.. ( nobody has seen my room anyway it is madness beyond the old virtual page but it worked for my listening experiments thats all that matter for me)

Second: i only used my dedicated laboratory to EXPERIMENT with unknown devices i created : my mechanical equalizer...And other things..

Third: it is because of this mad scientist silly room experiments that i discovered what nobody has never taught to me in audio threads BEFORE : acoustic is not an ADDITION to the gear but the ONLY WAY for ANY gear to reach his true working potential...READ IT TWO TIMES....

Then acoustic is way more powerful than the choice between a McIntosh amplifier versus my Sansui Amplifier or any other amplifier...Miracles come more from the room than from the gear save if you go from the bad designed one to the top best designed in the world for sure... When i spoke about gear choice being secondary i speak about relatively well designed products at all cost...

Four: anyone who pretend to judge my S.Q. by apperance of an image is ignorant of acoustic thats all...

Five: if someone had money he can perfectly design esthetically invisible Helmholtz resonators and diffusers grid, inside walls or ceilings, what i called my mechanical equalizer, way more better than what i did from scratch with junk...Nobody teach me about that to begin with anyway because nobody ever did it the way i did it...

Six: People judge on appearance in different way, for exemple this reviewer who claim Macintosh look too much beautiful to be the best amplifier...In the same way my junk yard room look too awful to give ANY significant S.Q. for him certainly like it did for an other seller here who dare to judge my room instead of argument... Even if the junk is a grid of Helmholtz tubes made in some case with toilet paper empty rolls and straws, nevermind my room look like junk but sound like refined by an acoustic devices grid......The best solution would have been design the room from the beginning with part of the Helmhotz grid INSIDE the walls...I could not afford the cost and anyway i made my discoveries in an incremental set of experiments in a 2 year period...

Seven: i am sorry for all people who own costly gear and costly tweaks but we can create marvellous sound with NOTHING save discarded junk materials and a 500 bucks system...I have nothing to sell save creativity... This fact dont please everyone...Especially if my ratio S.Q. /price is one of the best possible...

Eight: my wife want to made me closed in an asylum yes, and she is very pleased i never dare to touch the living room... But she say that my audio system sound very good and so said all those who are sure that i am mad... i am mad for sure i dont object to that....

But my ratio S.Q. /price made meaning also the other way around: what about people who have paid many, many more than me without enjoying a great S.Q. ?They must UPGRADE? They must buy costly "tweaks" ?

I dont need to upgrade and no tweaks have appeal to me now save those i created myself because they worked for me...And no gear, no tweak will beat acoustic method anyway...

Simple...

My deepest respect for my friend for sure....

Sorry Master M. She would offer CPR if you needed it after your 2-3 year journey to get there.

It’s easy to throw money at a problem to solve it.  Much harder to do it on an every man’s budget.  But @mahgister is right.  A little knowledge can go a long way. 

@oldhvymec I never claimed to be the pinnacle of anything, or that my sound is perfect because it far from it. 

This was the sole purpose of joining this forum, to exchange ideas, learn as much as I could and have fun.

But all of the sudden, some gentleman that I do not know, got personal, aggressive , made fun of my name, for the sole reason that I posted links to the IEEE and the Ethernet governing body that contradicts a lot of what he had to say in that thread he deleted.

I never called him names, or was disrespectful to him in any way.

Good for you that you can see a room from a picture and tell what to do with it to make it sound better. It is an admirable ability, which I don’t have.

I totally understand that a little knowledge goes a long way, but at the same time I am not satisfied with a little knowledge on the things I am interested. I am curious, eager to learn as much as I can,  my brain and time will allow me.

the one thing I learned from this thread is how easy is to get sucked in a sea of negativity and end up wasting energy all along the way. 
Completely unworthy.

Not all of us ( purposefully ) don’t live in neat rectangles with ( just ) a 9’ ceiling…

A great book from a guy who has heard music in literally thousands of rooms is; Get Better Sound by Jim Smith

Ego and Pride goeth before a fall, …..

One thing i can tell is a forest of amplifiers blocking any path to the turntable tells me…a lot….

Jim