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Duke, I am sure that you are correct. However, you use the term 'room treatment' while I say 'tuning' speaker/room pair. Are we talking about the same thing? I don't know. I share Michael Green's idea about tuning the entire system.
Grand piano will not sound good in smaller room, but guitar will. Tuned guitar. Grand piano will sound more or less acceptable, if you are lucky.
You move one chair out of the room leaving everything else as it was and the acoustics changes, sometimes significantly. No speaker design can compensate for what must be done working with the entire whole. At least I think so.

Hi Inna,

We might not be talking about the same thing, I should have paid closer attention to your wording.

What do you mean by "tuning" the speaker/room pair?

And you're right, (acoustic) guitar would have been a better example.

Thanks!

Duke, you are a pro, I am a listener. I can try to put it as a layman. I thought that the speakers/room system as presented by you is a bit mechanical. I believe it to be more as a kind of diad, a symbyosis of a sort, singing with one voice that contains the interactions of all reproduced instruments. As an instrument, in a manner of speaking.
And every instrument must be tuned. What does it mean in practical terms? I don't know, we better ask Michael Green. He tunes studios and performance halls. He 'listens' to wood before making platforms on which particular singers stand when singing, puts his panels wherever he feels they should be, moves chairs etc.

Hi Inna,

I really don't think Michael Green's approach (room acoustic treatment that preserves beneficial reverberant energy) and mine (starting out with speakers that don't need to be "fixed" by room treatment) are mutually exclusive.

Maybe we're just using different terminology. You talk about "...the system... singing with one voice...", and I talk about "the reverberant field should be spectrally correct", and I think we're saying the same thing.

Duke

Duke, I too think that in fact we are basically in agreement.