If you want lame advice DON'T do this!

@kota1 

Thank you for your response regarding receivers. I was thrown off when you mentioned that word because I don't use an AV receiver, and I thought that you might have meant something else.

Moving on, in the thread that you referenced, I was not asking for advice, I was asking for the opinions of other members, and what their experiences were. We all have our own ways of measuring, and I do it with experimentation and with my ears.

I see that you have a lot of threads and posts for someone who has been a member for such a short time. I don't know if it's your intention to stay here for a long time and build relationships with other members but if that is your plan, I would suggest a change of attitude..

@roxy54 

We all have our own ways of measuring, and I do it with experimentation and with my ears.

That's the final step in calibrating your room. If it doesn't please your ears no point right?

In recording studios they have standards, rooms are calibrated. Professional installers use standards that are known to reproduce what the engineer heard in the studio. It saves time and money.

This gets me back to my OP, how can someone advise me on a system change when they don't know how my current setup interacts with my room? Changes cost money and I am all for using your ears and experimentation AFTER the room is calibrated.

@onhwy61 

Equally as important are time decay issues.

+1, decay times should be .2 to .4 seconds. There is some good info on how to achieve that in this video at the :32 mark. The hard math they use to  calculate it follows and the short cut (which I followed to the T) to get it right in your room is at the :43 mark:

https://www.youtube.com/live/G0ekssXX7rE?feature=share

@coralkong

Different people like different sound types, whether that be a rolled off top end, or a heavy mid response, etc...

100% true, the software I use has different response curves you can choose or design one of your own. I read a lot of good stuff about the "harman curve" yet it wasn’t what sounded best to my ears.

I think this is coming it a bit high.

I 100% agree, I did title this thread very in your face. The reason is the number of thread I see of people saying "my budget is $$$$ and I want to buy X." That’s it, no system posted, no pics, just "and I like ______ type of music." The next thing you know members here are firing off $$$$$ recommendations and I think that is a poor way to budget (throwing darts in a chat room). I think the way I summed it up is reasonable, the MORE info someone provides (including system, pics, and measurements), the better the advice.

FWIW kota 1, I think most folks who go to the trouble of posting their systems are far less concerned with getting advice about their rooms/set/equipment as they are about establishing themselves as audiophiles and giving other viewers some understanding where they are coming from when they give advise. Expecting a novice to do what you would like to see in order to advise them is a bit beyond the pale. If he could come that prepared he probably wouldn't need your advice. A better, if not realistic perhaps, expectation is for 'advisors' not to attempt to answer questions without sufficient information for them to give a good answer (which many do!).