Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap

Hang black velvet on the wall...

or just turn out the lights, but I may try reducing the clutter. The room could use that.

If I may? I rather agree with the OP's suggestion, if not necessarily their enthusiasm, about darkening the spaces around and behind 2ch speakers. For the most part I do tend to listen with my eyes closed during the day and in a darkened living room at night to aid in the mental sound stage. Then again, having cream colored Acoustat 1+1's the black paint idea might not work all that well for me. 

In our next home I do plan to finish my audio salon in muted/dark tones to set a tranquil, relaxed mood and compliment the B&W Matrix 800's I'll be setting up.

FWIW, I found this on Reddit some months back on how to fool the eye regarding a room's dimensions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/s/tdxQMYjgHh

Hopefully someone will find it useful?

Happy listening.

I agree with the concept and recognize the value of the idea. It works, as any who has tried it would appreciate. Unfortunately, for those of use who are married, the black background may not pass the Wife Acceptance Factor.

These guys get it...

Most people don't get it. Expected. 

Proffessional stage, set designers know very well how lighting and dark color can unleash the imagination. Las Vegas, Broadway, Disney set designers, all know these methods. Yes, it's a real thing.

It has NOTHING to do with the color of the speakers. It's about creating an illusion of a black abyss that makes the back wall MUCH deeper. This allows the listener to 'see' much deeper into the sound stage.

If you have a dedicated listening room but you can't change the color of the back wall?  Spend thousands of dollars on equiptment and then have a room of visual distraction makes NO sense.

Done properly it's looks very clean and dramatic and blends perfectly into the rest of the room.

A huge mistake I see frequently is a fireplace down low, with a big screen TV up above. Speakers left and right. NOTHING could be more distracting to the music experience.

You tell me...what is the main focal point in this room?  The fireplace? The TV above? The vibrant wall color? It's surely NOT the stereo image. There is NO place for the music performers image to appear! Is the singer standing in the fire???

Nothing could be more distracting and detrimental to the image than all this clutter.

I love posts like this. lol. And believe me, for the first 3 paragraphs I hated it. And then came the replies lol. 

@oregon  

2 important questions:

what/which speakers?

whats your address?

my cousin Vinney will make them disappear.   

Well, I kinda like that Idea. Since I have two Pair of Vintage E/V Sentry III speakers.One is turned upside down on top of the other so the horns couple. Now that's a Stack on each side. They are in the corners of the living room which makes it a "1/4 space coupled environment which does cause an increase in sound pressure level, but what is worse is the reflection off of both corner walls.

Both Corners and both flat surfaces are treated with a Sonex type pyramid acoustic material which is Dark Charcoal color. I have an open center section drywall.  I might try hanging a piece dark Duventeen there just for S & Giggles.

What Me Worry? They said the Titanic could never sink. Oh Wait!!!! It Did.

Throw them out the window and use headphones 

😆😆😆

I have a. Nice. Modern style with white shelving and new silver stereo. But my great speakers are still large oak boxes. My wife and I have agreed to get them wrapped by a car wrapping shop - probably a brushed aluminum with a white trim. But any colour you can think of is available. Professionally done for about $300 is a lot less than any speaker.

Well, perhaps you're right. But I prefer to not have black walls and my wife would absolutely not permit it in a house in which grandchildren cavort, people come to visit and we go about doing our activities of daily living.

Make your speakers truly disappear? Put 'em at the curb on trash day with "FREE" marked on 'em.  See how fast they go! (Your neighborhood recyclers will thank you.)

Two things:

First:  Which marijuana dispensary do you use?  I've gotta get me some of that hooch!  I think that would do the trick without painting my walls black and doing all that other hoodoo mumbo jumbo.

Second:  Reminds me of what we did in college (i.e.  smoking hooch, shutting off the lights and turning on a blacklight).  Heck!  That made even the most modest two-channel system sound like a Mikey Fremer set-u.  One night, I think a couple of us saw God.

I have white speakers.  Should I paint them black too?

Can I have speakers painted to match the walls instead??

I am thinking painting all equipment including rack to match the walls and make them ALL disappeared to make my wife happier.

If I paint my back wall black, the wife will make me disappear , 😂 

I simply close the lights and go into a blissful listening state.🎶

2 important questions:

what/which speakers?

whats your address?

my cousin Vinney will make them disappear. 

I’m not painting my room black. Proper speaker setup will get your speakers to disappear. It might take you longer than painting your wall to adjust your speakers but it’s a necessity, along with treating your room which is also a must.

Before painting your wall black, do what other agon posters have done is drink alcohol, they indicated that makes their system sound better 

Just do this simple trick!  It’s genius!!

When a system performs so superbly, even if your eyes are open and you have visual cues and a true 3-D experience? When a system makes you want to close your eyes to experience even more? 

That's when you know you are listening to a stellar system. 

Tom

Interesting idea and set up!  Thank you for sharing!!

Illuminating just the speakers tends to focus my attention on them as sound sources and works against soundstage imaging.

I agree with dimming all the lights or just closing my eyes.

Beat me to it, @hilde45 

Best way to listen. Still dim the lights. 

I close my eyes

I'd prefer a properly treated room over some black paint, You could shut off the lights you know.