I've had the pleasure to listen in a Rives designed dedicated room. Wow! I'm not quite sure how to explain the benefits beyond the pure, flat frequency response except, other things are allowed to happen that otherwise wouldn't. Things are....life sized. I hope that makes some sense. Headphones don't measure up to or equal the overall effect either, IMO. Those that say the room is the most important system component have a point that I can't argue with. After saying that however, I spent the last four hours in my non-professionally designed room and enjoyed it immensely.
