Acoustic treatment ideas

@jastralfu @ghdprentice 

Here's what I came up with. 

Two 23x23x10 GIK full-range Sound Blocks on the floor behind the speakers. Big improvement. 

Removable/temporary items:

Custom made black quilted cover for TV from Digital Deck Covers. Doesn't look terrible and it is quick and easy to add/remove. Makes a big difference on it's own.

"Velvet" curtains for the china cabinet, window and french doors on same wall as system. 

Treating the main reflective surfaces really improves imaging - specifically spatial accuracy / separation of instruments/vocals.

$600 all in. The removeable stuff takes 5 minutes to set up.

John at GIK was very helpful and did not try "over-sell" me.

Thanks for the advice.

@macg19 I was about to recommend working with GIK. One other thing Inwas going to suggest is to pull the speakers out into the room a bit more and see if you get any improvement 

Glad you got it sorted.  $600 is pretty cheap for big improvements.  I have a velvet acoustic curtain in my room also that works pretty well.  If you have a mic and a laptop you can use software like REW to take some measurements if you’re interested in anything else that might need addressing.

@jastralfu thanks for the tip. Can you recommend an adequate mic?

@audphile1 - I have tried pulling the speakers forward (didn’t like it at all) but not with the new room treatments so it is worth revisiting - thanks for the idea