Room treatment made me cry.......a little........

I will add those other products just dulled the sound to the point that all the excitment was lost. I have educated myself on correct placements etc... and while these GIK products were placed in the exact same positions of the past room treatment products, the results with the GIK's are simply amazing.

Perhaps this helps give my post some perspective

"Room treatment made me cry"

Glad to hear it due to the results, not the cost! :-)

Do you think removing the TV was a significant part of the improvement?

THanks.

Mapman, I have removed the TV to test before the treatments showed up and while there was an improvement, it was not that pronounced. The TV was about 5 feet behind the front plane of the speakers so perhaps that also helped negate some of the TV factor?

The cost was reasonable as I purchased most of these used here on Agon.

Hey Granny,
It is truly amazing what proper room treatment can do for your sonic enjoyment. TV between speakers is always a bad idea. It seems like a great idea for us, but speakers hate it. I guess a drop down screen would work they even have acoustically transparent ones.
If you experiment you'll find placement of your traps and diffusors can make a difference also like distance to the floor and ceiling and how to treat the reflection points. Diffuse or absorb? Right now I do a combo of the two. It would be cool if there was an aerosol spray product that when used and music was played you could actually the radiation patterns of the speakers, what happens when the waves hit the walls, and the effects room treatments play. Maybe there is a computer program tha would let you input room dimensions, speaker type, placement in the room, and treatment placement. This would be very cool
Have lots of fun though. Can't wait to see your pics.

For you would be buyers, GIK, has many cool products that can work magic in your rooms and not make your room look like a studio. I wish I'd discovered them before purchasing the variety of products I'm using such as Auralex and Ready Acoustics (I'd never but anything from the folks at Ready again.)

Great to hear your response to what I've been advised to do for quite some time now. Emotional connections made from music go very deep. Maybe it's time now for me to buy some Kleenex.