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

@audition__audio

Well this is enlightening. My family can complain to me about playing my hi-fi too loud and maybe they have no right to do this. My neighbour plays a leaf blower too loud and it interferes with my phone calls inside my house I have no right to complain about that.

Further I have no right to complain about how wrong it is not to be able to complain about something.

The world according to those who use leaf blowers. Tom Hanks needs a new movie and I think this is a perfect fit.

@immatthewj 

You are so funny. Isn't it clear I love attention as well as learning so much wisdom offered by so many talented people who participate on this forum.

@emergingsoul  , I wasn't intending to be funny.  For quite some time I thought that your postings resembled @jumia  's posts, and then you did the leaf blower post, and the only other posts I read complaining about leaf blowers was from @jumia, so I was just asking if at one time you had gone by that screen name.  That's all.

@immatthewj 

When you're famous you have to use aliases. I'm not famous, I'm just another nobody.  I think we've all gotten used to leaf blowers and no one cares anymore.

I'm in a room right now and all the tested curves look fine and I've done it all with out acoustical stuff except for corner bass traps.

Funny thing is, I've had people over and they say how come you don't have any acoustical panels and then they look at me really strange when I say I don't really need them.  I think we've just gotten used to assuming you need acoustical panels all over the place so it looks like everybody else.  

 

 

Treatments consist of corner base traps extending up to the ceiling, a couple absorption panels throughout the room, a 20 x 20 thick wool rug and an assortment of furniture.

So I guess treating a room with acoustical panels Will provide a benefit. This is news. So many great enthusiastic people have led me to rethink my position. I thank everyone for helping me overcome my fear of adopting a more liberal view about acoustical treatments.

I'm in a room right now and all the tested curves look fine and I've done it all with out acoustical stuff except for corner bass traps.

Funny thing is, I've had people over and they say how come you don't have any acoustical panels and then they look at me really strange when I say I don't really need them.

That is rather confusing.