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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

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As for acoustic treatments, it would probably be easier to just get a room kit if I were going to treat another room. They have kits for studios/2 CH and HT that follow that same "recipe". Great support too, Anthony Grimani responded to my e-mails even though I used Auralex panels, he knows the owner and they are friends:

 

 

@kota1 Really impressive, your commitment to acoustics. There is art in music playback rooms that is very personal and that is if you do have the means and the knowledge to design your system and acoustics how do you want it to sound? Studios used to have a dead end and live end rooms, many were adjustable depending on the kind of music, this was in studios and control rooms I’m not sure this is the norm anymore. If you can design your acoustics in your listening room how much RT-60 do you use (decay). It is a conundrum looking at it from the end user point of view, the recording engineer should put the right amount of room in the original recording based on the type of music but then you are listening in a room with a set amount of room reverb. This is where headphones win. If you make your room to dead just like in the studio dead rooms sound bad, room acoustics need to have a normal decay about 2 seconds and that is around where many vocal reverb settings end up. The pre delay on a reverb unit is most important it tells your mind how big the first reflection is, this is a total electronic trick to the mind. I could ramble on and on about how the entire industry has no really good science behind it. Acoustics is boring but perhaps the most important part of recording and listening. 

I changed my speaker around a bit to align the tweeters, ever since your comment I thought I should have made a better effort to do something so obvious. Thanks I added the picture in my system profile