Oh yes. Put your stereo at any price into an untreated gym and play it really loud. If you enjoy it that way, more power to you.
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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I agree 100%. That is how I did for my room (few 1st reflection points treated with Aurelex). The room should be bit live than dead sound. In below videos, good treatment won’t get rid of the sound coloration. And my system sounds cleanest. Check out many live-recordings in YT (Chantal Beautiful Life). Alex/WTA Original music my system In Youtube "Chantal Beautiful Life" for more live recordings. Other |
maholl50"I’m curious about this. I think my system sounds pretty good but am wondering with room treatment would it sound better. Without spending a bunch of money how does one evaluate this?" I was a room treatment denier. There I said it. I was also a cable denier. However I have now recognized that being a denier is not the way to hi fi happiness. After some encouragement from friends in the hobby I added some sound treatments in my room, and they made a significant improvement. Total cost was about $800 from GIK. My system is posted so you can see the ceiling mounted panels. The panels on the sides are still to be mounted on the walls. |
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