Have you treated your listening space?

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

I'll split the difference with you. It's actually spelled
anechoic.

Tootles

Rug cores, are the poor audiophile's room treatment. Those tall hollow cylinders that are in the center of rugs work very well, even better than some corner bass traps that you pay good money for; they stopped the "booming" in my room. You simply use double stick tape, paint for invisibility, or decorate, and stick them in the corner behind the speakers.