If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?

maholl50

"I’m curious about this.

I think my system sounds pretty good but am wondering with room treatment would it sound better. Without spending a bunch of money how does one evaluate this?"

I was a room treatment denier. There I said it. I was also a cable denier. However I have now recognized that being a denier is not the way to hi fi happiness.

After some encouragement from friends in the hobby I added some sound treatments in my room, and they made a significant improvement. Total cost was about $800 from GIK. My system is posted so you can see the ceiling mounted panels. The panels on the sides are still to be mounted on the walls. 

Some people seem to just like seeing their names in print. It's one nonsensical post after another.

Something is really off with OP comments. He has started 225 posts, and has had 897 replies, in the past 3 1/2 years. Somehow conveying details of his superior system and the room it is in is somehow problematic? Hmmmm…. 

further, only a month ago he made this comment on a different post:

“Would you spend $250,000 for equipment in a room that just may not work out because of the way it's designed??  That room is gonna be an acoustical challenge it may never work out”. 

According to his logic, couldn’t you simply throw money into a system and magically make these “acoustic challenges “ disappear “?

Oh yes. Put your stereo at any price into an untreated gym and play it really loud. If you enjoy it that way, more power to you.

Absolutely--I am sure it would be much more satisfying to  sit in the gym you had treated to the hilt and listen to no system at all.

"nice" is not the same as "all it can be"