Have you treated your listening space?

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.

The quality of the room and treatments are roughly one-third of the sound quality. I never cease to be amazed at the high $$$ systems posted here with inappropriate listening environments. Seems such a waste to me.

I recently had an opportunity to set up a new room and was able to listen to it without treatment and with. I added 4 inch bass corner traps and then added some two inch panels on the wall behind the speakers. My room sounded pretty good without the treatments, since I took my time with the proper speaker placement. With treatments, the soundstage is better defined, and more open (larger). Also, I eliminated the bass spikes at certain frequencies near the walls and corners. This was not an expensive project. I got my panels from Acoustimac and they were really well made and shipped quickly. The "ready bags" from Ready Acoustics were a non starter. I ordered the bags in November of 2010 and finally just got a refund in August. Needless to say I will never use them again.

Treatment schmeatment. El redundo amundo. Case by case I say, and I think bass traps should look like faux marble Roman columns...right? And it's "anachoic" not "anecolic" which actually (if spelled correctly) is the art of soundproofing a grumpy baby. Strange but true.

Through the different evolutionary states of my room I have found there to be benefit from treatments in all aspects of my sound. Having the latest version professionally designed by Jeff Hedback really just took it to another place completely, I was really surprised at how much it improved over my self efforts. Didn't break the bank and big return on investment