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@mahgister. Just a question. How many system's have you set up? Just yours. Maybe a friend or two? Experience is always the best teacher especially when you make a mistake. Some of us have enough experience that we can tell how difficult a room is going to be. Its not that we can't make it better but there are some problems you just can not solve. Some rooms are better than others and when I walk into a room I know right away if I can turn it into a SOTA sound experience. I have told people not to waste a lot of money in a specific room because no matter what we do it will never be SOTA. The best thing to do in a terrible room is a near field system if the person will go with it. I actually refused jobs because I did not like the situation and did not want to be associated with it.
How a system is set up is very important but so isn't the equipment particularly the speakers. It is all important but some things are horribly over estimated in importance and overpriced. A lot of the stuff like the Hallograms are based on totally false assumptions. Mahgister you are totally right that you do not have to spend a fortune to have a brilliant system and you can certainly improve the experience with proper acoustic management. But it is not rocket science and you do not have to spend a fortune doing it either. 
I've got to get back to work a patient almost succeeded in cutting his thumb off.

Mahgister you are totally right that you do not have to spend a fortune to have a brilliant system and you can certainly improve the experience with proper acoustic management. But it is not rocket science and you do not have to spend a fortune doing it either.

You already know that even if the hallograph experience interested me for example i NEVER recommend to people to buy costly tweaks at all...Not because they cannot work, to know that, we must experiment, but because they are too costly sometimes for what they give or too easy to replicate at no cost....

I recommend to experiment ourselves...creativity and partaking creativity is my business not selling costly products...

I did it and i dont need to buy anything...

I just dont like when someone attack many satisfied customers because of this purchase with only no sound reason except an alleged kowledge....

For example i created my room tuner after experimenting with the idea behind the "Argent roomlens" product which is sold more than one thousand dollars...

I recreated it in few hours and probably improve it....I recommend to people to experiment with it not to spend money...

All consumerism and all market sells half truths...

The truth is : dont upgrade before knowing what your system can really do, working at his best potential level when it is rightfully embedded in these 3 dimensions: mechanical, electrical and acoustical.... Is it not simple?

Doing that is possible without buying anything costly...

It is my experience.... And i dont pretend to have the best audio system at all.... Just enough good to make for me the idea to upgrade useless....

My best to you ....

The best thing to do in a terrible room is a near field system if the person will go with it.

Just a remark coming from my experience...

I already have a small room 13 feet almost square...

Near listening help in a bad room in the sense that it "seems" a little less worst and it is in some measure...The direct sound coming from the speakers help.... Thats all....

My acoustical experiment worked improving my near listening (3 feet) also...

Then EVEN in near listening a room must be treated and under control acoustically... It is a myth that with near listening you are free to let your room untouched...In a non treated room, even in near listening the "timbre" experience will not be so natural and the imaging not so good....

It is my experience....

By the way i never pretended to have more experience than you for example in using an equalizer... I dont doubt your expertise with that and will ask you help when i will need to...

But i have also my experience and some unusual devices or materials did unexpected things for me...I dont want to be trusted on words but i dont want to be mocked either....Thats all....

mahgister ...

• oregonpapa,
• What are those four remote controls for?
• What model is that little Nakamichi?

Remotes: 1. CD player. 2. Line stage. 3. Phono stage. 4. Teac CD burner.

Nakamichi DR-3. I bought the Nak here on A’gon from a kind soul for $100 in like-new condition years ago and it still works perfectly. I like to burn some of my favorite LPs onto cassette and play them back on my Mark Levinson car stereo to listen to while driving. Analog in the car sounds just lovely. And by the way, cassettes don't sound too shabby in the main system either. 

Frank

oregonpapa,

Thanks (it was me, not mahgister)!

I figured TEAC out, but could not guess the other three. Most of the time, multiple remotes have a TV somewhere around so I was puzzled.

I have DR-2 (I think) I got for $20 at Goodwill. That is why I noticed Nakamichi. Even mine plays really well.

I agree with tapes in the car.