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Speaker Placement - When it's perfect!

So many audiophiles have commented that when your room treatment is completed, your electronics set up and tweaked and most importantly, your speakers are set up in your listening space correctly that you'll know it because everything just sounds so "right" and natural.  I just accomplished that feat in the last two weeks.  I say two weeks because I needed to play a wide variety of recordings to be sure that I'm there.  It is so great to have finally hit just the right set up.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that it has taken me well over a year of experimentation to get to this point.  It's not that other placements yielded poor quality sound its just that now everything sounds like a live event (as much as any of our systems can).

I would really appreciate hearing about your journey to the promised land of audiophile/music lover bliss.  How long did it take, what were the most difficult aspects of the journey?  And if you have yet to get there, what do  you think is the "brick in your wall"?
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toddverrone
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@stfoth   peace lilies are easy to care for.. they go limp when they need water, you water them, they perk back up. Not sure they’d be in a big enough pot to absorb much bass. I kinda lucked out with the orange tree.

@geoffkait I’m open to the possibility that the plant will affect sound in ways that aren’t instantly obvious, but right now I haven’t noticed a degradation in sound. In fact, the opposite. But that is definitely from the bass absorption
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kalali
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There are less esthetically pleasing but more effective methods for managing the unwanted bass frequencies. How about planting a round corner bass trap in a pot? You never know,  you may have a taller bass trap if you give it enough Miracle Grow...😄
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geoffkait
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What I have in mind is a team of trained professionals hired out to act as bass traps by standing in corners during demonstrations at the big shows or even for individuals, on a case by case basis. Special dress requirements for the human Helmholtz resonators will be considered. 👙

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toddverrone
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@kalali - ha! Yeah, I'm aware and am researching bass traps at the moment. It's just that I recently bought a measurement mic, so I can finally see what frequencies I'm having booming bass problems with. And it's getting colder, so it was time to bring the orange tree in.. I just didn't think that the potted plant would almost cure my bass issues.

I'm thinking of building a slack membrane bass trap, as it seems I can make it reasonably small as long as I can find a very dense membrane. So, we'll see where this goes..
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toddverrone
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@geoffkait you could hire yogis to do yoga asanas in the corner. We can measure the absorptive properties of each asana and then tailor them accordingly. A headstand over behind the speakers, a nice corpse pose in front of the speakers to absorb floor reflections.. 
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