How to tame a bright system?

@snarfie23,

If you know that all music that we are listening to is mastered in a control rooms that has invested lots of money (sometimes in a ratio of 20% gear an 80% room treatment) in threating their rooms than it is IMO a no brainer were you have to look for in your own listening environment first. But for practical reasons for lot’s of us it is not really possible to rebuild our room but guess what we have DSP which requires no room treatment at all an can produce a Hugh improvement IF measurements are done correctly which is for the average Joe a pain to accomplish i guess (thats why i use Mathaudio Room EQ a simple free solution that even i can manage).😅

Agreed!

@snarfie23 Snarfie23 :

I am analog through and through. Dunno about a DSP being of any help  

@unreceivedogma

Mathaudio will not help. You have to make a REW measurments than you have to buy a Minidsp an upload the REW measurments into the Minidsp connect the analog recordplayer to the minidsp audio input which translatie an modify the analog input to a digital format which wil be translate back to An anolog signal to your amp. An possible other costly solution is looking for a pre or integrated amp with lyngdorf of dirac live incorporated which probably wil do the same with any analog input as Minidsp does. For instance NAD has such solution.

https://www.minidsp.com/products/minidsp-in-a-box/flex

@snarfie23

Thanks for that but frankly, all a little too anal for me.

As long as it sounds great to my ears, which it nowblessedly does, with the added side benefit of watching my guest’s jaws drop and their eyes bug out when I play their favorite piece of music that they THOUGHT they knew, I’m OK. 👍🏼🤗

@snarfie23 

I am guessing that covering the walls and ceiling - completely - with an acoustically deadening material is optimal? Yes or no?