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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.

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coltrane1
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I’ve been in audio for 60 years, and haven’t corrected a room yet. 

ghdprentice
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@tonywinga 

 

+1on beautiful and wool rug.

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mahgister
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I lived more than 50 years without correcting any room me too ... 😊

I’ve been in audio for 60 years, and haven’t corrected a room yet.

But unlike you i discovered and learned by experiments why and how i was wrong .😁

Most of the times because most room need it unbeknownst to the lazy owner or unbeknownst to those who anyway are unable to do it because it is a living room and they are married,

It is  most of the times the result of acoustics basic science ignorance coupled often to gear price fetichism upgrading obsession ... 😁

Sorry... I learned it the hard way ... 😊

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milpai
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@emergingsoul ,

Why don't you post your system pics and show how it is done? Maybe we all can learn something from you!

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@milpai 

I like your room, lots of interesting stuff.  We have something in common, I also have a salamander rack just like yours, except mines on casters.

Also I have a salamander rack that's 25 years old and it's wide enough for two components and deep enough to handle an amplifier without sticking out in the back. It's three levels and built like a tank.  Bought it originally for a tube TV for the top.  Unfortunately they don't make it anymore which really sucks.  But it's an awesome awesome rack.  New ones are OK.  

Do you need an album from the Carpenters in your collection. Nothing wrong with Karen Carpenter.  Glad to see you have plenty of Eric Clapton hope you have Van Morrison somewhere.

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