Streetdaddy - if you have GIK D1s laying around then sure go ahead and place them at your side wall 1st reflection points to see if it makes it 'less dead' sounding. If you don't have them, then try a sheet of plywood angled so that lateral reflections are sent upwards to the ceiling or sent behind you to preserve the mid/high freq energy.
Summitav - I would agree with you that any indirect reflection is a corruption (e.g. temporal or spectral) of the original direct signal, so as such, may be labeled a distortion. If your mindset and taste is for purity of sound reproduction then you ought to consider listening through headphones. Even in a well damped room such as you enjoy you cannot absorb the low bass frequencies unless it's a huge room where the first modal frequency is below auditory threshold levels. So even an absorbent domestic room will only be absorbent across a limited set of frequencies skewing the reflections you wish to absorb fully. Reflections at glancing angles won't be absorbed so yet again indirect reflections persist.
I like to think in terms of limiting the bad sonic effects of a room while leveraging the positive sonic effects. Get the room working for you not against you, so to speak. Hence the suggestion that not all reflections are bad and those that are should be absorbed or diffused and those that are good should be left alone.
Like I mentioned previously, sonics are as personal as your taste in music. There is no one right way.
Summitav - I would agree with you that any indirect reflection is a corruption (e.g. temporal or spectral) of the original direct signal, so as such, may be labeled a distortion. If your mindset and taste is for purity of sound reproduction then you ought to consider listening through headphones. Even in a well damped room such as you enjoy you cannot absorb the low bass frequencies unless it's a huge room where the first modal frequency is below auditory threshold levels. So even an absorbent domestic room will only be absorbent across a limited set of frequencies skewing the reflections you wish to absorb fully. Reflections at glancing angles won't be absorbed so yet again indirect reflections persist.
I like to think in terms of limiting the bad sonic effects of a room while leveraging the positive sonic effects. Get the room working for you not against you, so to speak. Hence the suggestion that not all reflections are bad and those that are should be absorbed or diffused and those that are good should be left alone.
Like I mentioned previously, sonics are as personal as your taste in music. There is no one right way.