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About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience?

I'm reaching the point soon where I'll invest in some treatments for my two channel listening room. Standmount speakers with tube amps. Room about 28x14ft with low ceilings, 6.5ft. Probably different kinds of treatments are needed. I'm not exactly sure yet what I'll need or how much to spend. This is not my final listening room, but I won't be able to configure another one for a few years.

I've seen many people tout GIK on this forum and I'm already communicating with them a bit. I will also reach out to Real Traps and possibly others. I do not feel bound to go with just one company or solution, so if you've mixed and matched, I'm curious about that, too.

Any recent comparisons between these two, or others? Do you have stories of good or not so good products or service? Any comments about the value of competing products? I'm not super handy or have a lot of free time, but DIY is also considered. 

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hilde45 OP
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Um Mahgister, no offense, but you do this in a lot of threads. Take a question and relatively focused discussion and drag it into your interesting but somewhat hard to follow and tangential directions. At great length.

Clearly you want or need to talk about these issues. That's fine. But may I politely suggest you start a thread with the things you want to discuss (however abstract they are) rather than injecting them into focused threads seeking to solve a problem? It would keep this thread open for more focused or useful contributions (to my question).

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mahgister
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You prefer someone who argue against turntable lovers, condemning them to be ignorant, WITHOUT sound argument and against fact and reason?

By the way i have the right to answer a post directed to the simple fact i pointed to....


Arguments are hard to follow when they exist by the way.... Opinions without arguments is it what you want?

children arguing?

 He just suggest that the golden ratio is an ARBITRARY convention and this is ignorance...

I only reestablish a  scientific fact.....





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hilde45 OP
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@maghister Yes you have the "right" to go on and on. I was only making a request. Forget it. I'll just skip past your posts if they're off topic and everyone else who is interested in the main theme of the thread can do the same.
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mahgister
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I apologize and i will try to not congest your thread.... But i will answer if someone  ask for it....

My best to you....
nolojunko
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Here are two links you can use to enhance your ability to use REW; one like is for speaker and listening position placement in real-time, while the other is an REW tutorial by John L. Sayers.  Enjoy!

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21122

http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21122
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