How far can room treatments solve boomy bass?

When I started work in my small work I needed to take action to address problems in the low octaves and these were created even by small monitor speakers interaction with the room. From the outset it needs to be said that one should expect unevenness in bass at some point(s) in the low and mid bass frequency range due to room modes as discussed above.

Armed with Roger Smiths book and measurement tools from XTZ and REW I was able - over a period of time - to make meaningful remedial action. My story is here.

As the story goes acoustic treatment applied to small rooms can address bass boom issues and thankfully can enhance listening pleasure by addressing other small issues to - like slap echo.

I have timber floors using spikes for my speakers, its a suspended floor. I get bass reverb, any suggestions to get the speakers decoupled from the floor would be great!

I know what I am going to write is politically incorrect but it has proved correct in my humble experience. I was brought up on the evils of equalizers and I shunned them all my life up to a few years ago. I have Pioneer TAD 2404s in a relatively small room with with a large bay window on the right-hand speaker side and sub-optimal positioning - they are firing across the short walls and not the long (this is my concession to my wife). The bass was boomy and it obscured significant detail. This was largely cured by the insertion of a BSS FCS 966 30 band graphic equalizer just before my power amp. It is set for significant bass cut particularly for the right channel and some treble cut. The settings were determined by one of the most distinguished US studio designers who has been in the business for decades and who spent several hours using some pieces of gear which I understand are no longer available. So I do not know how easy it would be for an ordinary mortal like myself to attempt to determine the settings. So my post may not be that useful. But after some 40 years in the hi-fi hobby this was a revelation to which I had to be dragged screaming before I would give up my prejudice against EQ. IMHO EQ works very well if done right with a professional piece of gear like the BSS. My room is also quite reflective and it has benefited considerably from the placement of some custom acoustic absorbent panels. Again, I had to be dragged screaming to this realization too, but it was easy after hearing the natural resolution of a studio room designed by the same studio consultant. But in my experience, this type of add-on acoustic treatment is great for absorbing stray sound waves to give you more detail but does little in helping speakers that overpower a room with bass.

I hope this helps. I am posting this not to upset people with firmly held differing views but just to let the OP know of my experience.

Enjoy the music!

Continued thanks to all, I am gaining considerable perspective relative to my completely naive state about this at the beginning of this thread.
Jim

Please tell us how you did with all later on!