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

Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room.  Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort

I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful.  Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.

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limomangus
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My room has catheral ceiling with a balcony. My system sound great to me.If having acoustically treated room would make my system sound like ,listening with headphones. That's interesting to me .I haven't used headphones in about 50 years.Using them would have killed my hearing.As we get older pur hearing disintegrates. I grew up in NYC with loud traffic,loud subways,seating up close to the stage and getting my ears blown out.Listing to my stereo loud.If i did use headphones for those 50 years now,I would certainly be deaf and not having the pleasure of listening to my music.If you use headphones while listening to music,Beware.

emergingsoul OP
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I'm not the smartest chip on the block and tend to be very slow at learning things but this thread has really been enlightening.  Fortunately I have a really nice wool rug and that's very helpful if I could only put it on the ceiling.  Maybe I need one of these diffusers although I may have to get a lot of them to be something meaningful since one or two probably don't do much.  All I read about acoustical measurements involved dedicated rooms that don't have furniture and that's not very helpful I like to see rooms that have lots of furniture stuff going on and then hear about decisions made to do some sound panels

There are so many really smart people contributing on this website. I was able to create this lovely comment through dictation and only touching the screen a couple times. You learn to speak more clearly and consider more carefully what you're saying when you dictate because if you screw up it's a bitch to edit

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coltrane1
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I’ve been in audio for 60 years, and haven’t corrected a room yet. 

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@tonywinga 

 

+1on beautiful and wool rug.

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mahgister
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I lived more than 50 years without correcting any room me too ... 😊

I’ve been in audio for 60 years, and haven’t corrected a room yet.

But unlike you i discovered and learned by experiments why and how i was wrong .😁

Most of the times because most room need it unbeknownst to the lazy owner or unbeknownst to those who anyway are unable to do it because it is a living room and they are married,

It is  most of the times the result of acoustics basic science ignorance coupled often to gear price fetichism upgrading obsession ... 😁

Sorry... I learned it the hard way ... 😊

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