Room improvement

Contact GIK Acoustics. You can send them pics online of your room, and they will help you. Great advice, phenomenally high value products.

Personally I think it’s the system’s responsibility to sound good in the room. Not the room’s responsibility to sound good in the system.

Which limits you to speakers which interface well with the room. A good sounding room can accept a much broader range of speakers.  Small speakers sound huge, large speakers sound refined.

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I strongly disagree with the opinion that the speakers are responsible for sounding good in your room. My advice is to find the speakers that sound best to you with your source and electronics, then perfect their placement in that room taking into account the dimensions, walls, and furniture. I recommend the Master Set Method. Only then can you perfect the reflections, Peaks and valleys. Imaging is a function of eliminating first reflections. At the first reflection point I use random books and CDs for diffraction. I also recommend corner absorbers as millercarbon says above. Further improvements can be made with specially designed products. Good luck.

As much more educated gents than me have pointed out, the amount of room treatment needed can vary a great deal by speaker, so the idea that one way or the other is more correct is not well supported.


Controlled narrow directivity can greatly enhance imaging and detail, reducing the need for room treatment. Line arrays, horns and panels (ESLs) can really help.


But a well treated room can take any of them and make them sound spectacular. A poor room will be much more speaker dependent.


The buyer's own preferences matter a great deal. Personally, I have to use a half and half approach. I used tweets with narrow dispersion, and add bass traps and room treatment.