Have you treated your listening space?

In the 70's I covered a small basement room with mattresses so my band could rehearse without bothering neighbors. It worked very well, so duct taping doll house mattresses to my head just seems like an obvious sound absorbtion solution. That bad news is all the hair I lose when removing the tape.

Why, was it sick?:-)

Note that many respected gear reviewers don't "treat" their rooms with anything beyond furniture, rugs, and bookcases, although they go to great lengths to tweek things like speaker placement and isolation of components...maybe this is because they want the "real world" environment of the sound of the room. If you want to turn a living space into an anachoic chamber I suppose that's fine as nobody will hear you when you shoot yourself in the foot. I really do think the answer to the "treatment obsessed" is to use good headphones while sitting on a subwoofer.

Uh, of course no one is suggesting turning the room in an anecolic chamber. But there are standing waves and early reflections as well as echos and other effects that really do interfere with the sound. It's a question of how far one wishes to go in the pursuit of the best sound. If one wishes to ignore the problem, well, that's a different matter.

Wolf.
Anecolic chamber?
You must not have any experiance with room treatments and the wonderful sonic improvements that they can produce.
If you've ever heard the effects of a correctly treated room, you wouldn't say such things.