Room Treaments - Where To Begin...

millercarbon:

Appreciate your insight. Excuse my lack of knowledge, but if my speakers (Spendor D9.2) are base spiked to carpet, aren't they already effectively isolated?

Thanks

Textbook RT60 for a mastering control room, mostly accomplished with natural treatments, a bit of hidden in art absorbers, etc.. 

But first a question (s ) to the OP about your tastes, what is your resident orchestra and where are your preferred seats in the hall ? Have you heard your Spendor in a better room or system ? what does it do that yours does not ? Congrats on the Spendor BTW, most excellent.

surfmuz,

This is a question of room acoustics, not soundproofing a room. Two different topics.

OK - here's the trick... to effectively correct the room acoustics, you have to measure the room acoustics and figure out what needs help.  Simple...  you wouldn't go to the doctor and say "I need medicine" because you know the next question is going to be "for what"?  you HAVE to describe the problem first and foremost.  Get a set of frequencies recorded at the same level, play them back and at least statically measure the room response at the listening position.  Back in the day, that would be a Stereophile test cd and a Radio Shack dB meter... nowadays, you can use your phone instead of the meter and I am sure there are some freebie apps with frequency sweeps.  Measure FIRST, then address the problems.  By the way - GIK may be longer lead times than pre-civid, but they ARE good products and reasonable prices and have good people on staff to make recommendations FREE if necessary.

tomic601, jwpstayman

Thanks for the responses - I guess what I am saying is that I enjoy my system and have not identified a particular problem - I just wonder if it could be better with some room treatments. P.S. I also have a JL Audio E110 paired with Spendors...