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

Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room.  Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort

I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful.  Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.

emergingsoul
mihorn
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emergingsoul OP

It’s not rocket science, if you have an echo room get a rug, buy some furniture and maybe stick an absorption panel on one of the walls and corners.

I agree 100%. That is how I did for my room (few 1st reflection points treated with Aurelex). The room should be bit live than dead sound.

In below videos, good treatment won’t get rid of the sound coloration. And my system sounds cleanest. Check out many live-recordings in YT (Chantal Beautiful Life). Alex/WTA

Original music

my system

In Youtube "Chantal Beautiful Life" for more live recordings.

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kennyc
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@emergingsoul 

We are simply after better sonics vs just the gear.  It's always been this way.  

jperry
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maholl50

 

"I’m curious about this.

I think my system sounds pretty good but am wondering with room treatment would it sound better. Without spending a bunch of money how does one evaluate this?"

I was a room treatment denier. There I said it. I was also a cable denier. However I have now recognized that being a denier is not the way to hi fi happiness.

After some encouragement from friends in the hobby I added some sound treatments in my room, and they made a significant improvement. Total cost was about $800 from GIK. My system is posted so you can see the ceiling mounted panels. The panels on the sides are still to be mounted on the walls. 

secretguy
1,729 posts
 

Some people seem to just like seeing their names in print. It's one nonsensical post after another.

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timkeough1964
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Something is really off with OP comments. He has started 225 posts, and has had 897 replies, in the past 3 1/2 years. Somehow conveying details of his superior system and the room it is in is somehow problematic? Hmmmm…. 

further, only a month ago he made this comment on a different post:

“Would you spend $250,000 for equipment in a room that just may not work out because of the way it's designed??  That room is gonna be an acoustical challenge it may never work out”. 

According to his logic, couldn’t you simply throw money into a system and magically make these “acoustic challenges “ disappear “?

 

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