For a quick good time, blankets...

@nrenter

Thanks !! Of course, this is far beyond where I meant to go.

I hope however that more audiophiles experiment with room acoustics which can be done for nearly zero cost. I think any who haven't yet done so in their audio education could be in for a real learning experience.

I do think that wearing a padded Winnie the Pooh outfit while listening would be taking the idea a bit far!

Best,

E

Brings up an interesting thing I notice in audio magazines...the always wireless and generally ampless and everything elseless cool man speakers in cool man modern rooms for advertising pics. It's as if your wealthy neighbor liked the looks of your Ferrari Red Wilsons so much he broke into your place and took the damn things up to the penthouse and just put 'em in there. Along the glass walled living area with no rugs and a view of the rooftop pool maybe. They hire ad agencies for this stuff of course, but I want to see piles of gear with gigantic cables, bass traps, ugly egg carton diffusers, and a grumpy looking trophy wife…just once...

Yep, at least one Stereophile reviewer has no room treatments at all, and constantly bemoans the poor bass response in his room, but that's how he reviews $100k+ speakers.

Best,

E

Does that reviewer have any furniture? 

A suggestion for those who put blankets over there big screen TVs.
I bought a piece of 2in Pyramid foam, cut it to size, put three 3in velcro straps on it. They come with adhesive, but then you need to put something on the adhesive strap part. And the adhesive doesn't hold well, so I sewed them on, just some stitches in no special pattern other than coming through between the pyramids. Put a few pieces of the other side of the velcro, the grabby side, on the top edge and back  of the TV.
When watching TV, I placed three small squares on my CD shelves.
On a 56in HDTV the velcro lines up nicely in three places on the CD shelves. It takes about 20 seconds to remove or install.
No more problems with big reflective screen.
I went with 2in, if I ever change TVs, I would probably go with 3 or 4in.
It helped with soundstage, depth, and to me just overall improved the sound.
I bought the foam here [very reasonable prices]:
http://www.foambymail.com/acoustical-foam-products.html
One piece of 48in x 72in was $35 plus shipping.
I had a few pieces left over that I placed in areas that I felt could benefit.