Room Treatments

Your question begs an even bigger question which is: "Can peaceful coexistence be maintained between a well treated listening room ...and a wife?".
Of course there are exceptions but the true answer is most likely (99.999 pure copper % of the time) NO. Actually, to be more accurate: 99.99999% of the time it's more like "NO #@$%^$!ing WAY!"
With that said...clever compromises (as described) may be found but to call a "Shared room" "WELL treated"...is probably not going to happen very often.
I knew this and lived with it as needed for as long as possible until I managed to acquire a room I could turn into a dedicated listening room; NO WAF influence what-so-ever...and every time my wife walks into it she reminds me how this would never fly in any other room of the house. Yes, I thank her for it often...my gratitude knows no bounds...it was a tremendous amount of work (in many ways) but the ultimate reward [of having it to use and treat as I see fit] is, dare I say, almost incomprehensible...until you've experienced it yourself.
Trust me.
Truly...
Anyway, with that said, IMHO I believe room treatments that help make the music seem "More true to the original recording stage" (and you'll recognize it as you add/adjust/and even subtract treatments as they each make their presence heard) is the goal. It's extremely time consuming but well worth your patience in the long run.
Good luck and happy Lissn'n.

The best method is to determine whether you need room treatment in the first place. It depends on the room and its furnishings, type of window treatment, etc.

Go to the Realtraps site. Every room needs bass and first refelction point absorption. Foam sound absorbers just won't do...they deaden the sound. The idea is to flatten out the frequency response in your room. Realtraps are frequency tuned. It will be the greatest sound quality improvment you can ever do...really !

There are ways to make effective room treatments more (but not totally) wife friendly. Most panels can be ordered or retro-fitted with printed artwork, for example. Wooden baffle diffusors can look interesting (or use book cases).

In a small room, I have found that the single most effective treatment is usually corner traps. These are also the hardest of all things to sneak into a room. While it has been said that soft music leads to romance, it has been my experience that bass traps tend to have the opposite effect.

Hi all ! I had GIK acoustics look at pictures of my listening room (living room ) and they made recommendations. I picked the artwork on eack item . I used two corner traps and three 2' x 4' panels on the walls . Eliminated the echo and hard sound and people dont even notice because they look like pictures .