If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?

@tvad

For your info I voice control my iPad I can get by with minimal touching. I also control what I watch on TV using voice control for the Apple TV box. Unfortunately the remote is too difficult to use and every time I am using an app i have have to scroll through it by repeating a number over and over again until I find what I’m wanting to find it I can’t through things by swiping my finger across the screen. Is it very frustrating way to search for something. I have my limitations but many people have a whole lot worse and the awful development of voice control technology for desktop and even watching TV is horrible. Although I’m very grateful for what has been done it’s like they should’ve spent more effort in the final 10% of the journey and because of that not as good as it should be. People take for granted the ease which they use computers and they’re smart phones. It’s absolutely remarkable how complicated the process is and all the pressure going on with very delicate tissues in your arm to Press and swipe a device.

Especially controlling a mouse on a computer it’s incredibly awkward and should be a hell of a lot easier than it is it’s clear that Microsoft and Apple really could give a crap about people with disability. Windows 11 is awful. Technologically it’s not very difficult to do but they choose not to devote much effort to improving it.

As far as me getting by with all my audio equipment I certainly don’t do it myself.

@emergingsoul the answer to your question will probably be found in more… reflection 😉

There are two aspects to room treatment. One is to improve the balance of the frequency response and minimize room modes, mostly on the low end. This generally requires both diffusion and absorption. Not all rooms need this, and it can be addressed in different ways.

The other, and more important one is to reduce room reverberations in the mid and high frequencies that smear the sound, and add the sound of your room to the sound coming out of your speakers. This can be accomplished with absorbent materials. Most rooms can benefit from this and can take your sound quality to another level. It doesn't have to be complicated. Furniture, carpet, can help but placing 4-6" deep absorbent panels strategically works wonders. And they can found with all sorts of decorative looks. 

You missed the very important time element….. the ear - brain needs X ms to ID….

RT where T = Time

Many of the Products produced to be used in a Audio System are tried during R&D stages in dedicated demonstration spaces.

These Spaces are all about not producing sound that is being corrupted by the types of condition that are to be met in a Typical Listening Environment used by a purchaser of goods.

Once a Product is purchased, there are some products that are not designed to be at their best presentation when used in their new environment. As the end sound can't deliver as it had at the stages during the design, due to the influences caused by the Room and Set Up within the Room.  

Room Treatment is a simple method to attempt to enable a end sound be produced that is a resemblance of a Sound be created during the design stage.

Note: resemblance to the produced sound is the key word not, a match for the sound produced during R&D Stages. 

To not attempt to optimise the room for the audio equipment in use is absolutely fine, music is still being produced.

To attempt to optimise the room for the audio equipment being used is also absolutely fine, music is still being produced, but possibly ? with less influences produced by the room and room set up.