If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?


Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room.  Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort

I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful.  Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.

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Having just experienced this first hand: you need to treat your room.

To be more accurate, you need to know how to determine AND hear HOW your room is coloring altering or outright changing sound, sound stage, frequencies, etc.  This should be a testing process that people go thru when setting up their components and their speakers in their listening area. 

I went thru this with my step father, who has been an audiophile my whole life.  His incredible system and amazing top notch speakers literally sounded AND measured horribly in the room he had set up.  To him though, it sounded amazing and never heard anything better.  To me, it was literally unlistenable....and oddly to him, it was unlistenable as well he just didn't realize it (never listens above 65db, only listened for an hour or two).