I knew room treatments were in my future.

@ebm

Stillpoint Apatures get 4 ASAP for the best sound.

Are those $750 each? You're recommending he get 4 of them right away? Or am I looking up the wrong things?

They really work great if you only start with 2 put them at the first reflection point.If you feel there to expensive buy somthing else however i fell they are the best i had Tube Traps before these are much better.Good luck!!

@ebm 

And at $750 each you think they're good enough to try *even before* doing an analysis of the room? If so, that's very high praise indeed!

Really dislike ASC for a couple of reasons, price and performance.  I went to a show in Oakland sponsored by ASC, and almost every room had Tube Traps galore.
The rooms sounded terrible.  They were not better to listen to in the mid to treble, and the bass, while clear, became 1 note.  It was as if all the rooms were playing the same song in the bass.  It sounded like the TT were imposing their own character on the room instead of taking the room out of the equation.

The couple of rooms I found which used traditional panels sounded MUCH better.

@golden210

@ebm

To each his own. I found pillows in the corners behind the speakers to work better than Stillpoints Apetures, actually much better. My dealer has many of Aperture's, and in his room, they seem to work OK.

I moved to GIK Impressions corner traps a few months ago, and @ $470/pair delivered, they provide much more room treatment for the $$. They definitely work better than the pillows. I'm sort of debating with myself whether to buy first reflection treatment now. I'm not really sure I have a first reflection problem though and never thought I did.