The Emperor Has No Clothes!!

@tonywinga 

Yes, by all accounts, the windows in my big rig are supposed to be hugely detrimental.  And yes, it’s a gorgeous room, so there’s no way I’m ever covering that view up.  But somehow it works really well, perhaps in part due to the upward sloping ceiling, which you can’t see in the pic.  When my local dealer at the time - a legendary figure in room setup - delivered the speakers, he was amazed at how good it sounds.  Could it sound better?  Am quite sure it could.  Check out my vintage system - there I’ve installed acoustic ceiling tiles, and it really sings.  But if you ever find yourself in Nortgern Virginia, give me a shout.  You will be treated to single malt scotch - if you indulge - and I’ll let you judge for yourself.

@chrisoshea 

lol! I can promise you that not a penny of your funds will go to legal expenses (though my wife is a lawyer).

Thank you for the invitation and likewise if you are ever around about the Savannah, GA area.  I live not too far from there-100 miles from downtown.  Hey, we’ve been known to drive down there for dinner- not much else to do in middle Georgia.  It’s good to get a fresh set of ears to hear our systems.  I stopped listening to my brothers.  They’re just jealous.

Here’s a story for you all regarding the room.  I have my listening room which is quite large but has dormers.  I had some corner traps and a few absorption panels on the front wall behind the speakers.  Now my shop is 30x30 with a drywall ceiling finished in textured spackling.  The walls are insulated and covered with perforated Masonite.  That makes the shop hemianechoic (mostly).  When I sold my Thiel speakers a couple of years back I set them up in the shop with a cheap little bluetooth amp so the buyer could audition them before purchase.  The Thiels sounded amazing in the shop.  I got sick to my stomach because they sounded so good.  This was nuts.   My first thought was cancel the sale but the buyer was already on the way.  I was ready to move my stereo to the shop until my wife talked me off the ledge.  So I went to work on my room.  It took me a couple of months, but I got the room to sound much, much better.  Mainly I had to work on the sloped ceilings but also put absorbers- bass traps in the dormers.  The last issue is signal to noise.  The diffusers and absorbers actually helped with that too.  Still, if I had room in the shop…