While perfect placement of speakers and room treatments help you get more out of your perfectly assembled system, if you don't have the basic tonal balance right, the better placement, better treatment ain't gonna do a whole lot of good. I would pick good balanced sound with TV inbetween anyday than a perfect room with bad balanced sound. Exceesive brightness is the very common problem I have found in multiple well set up (by this I mean by the book set up, not necessarily sound) systems (worst than 9 out of 10), regardless of price. If equipement synergy is not there to begin with no amount of room treatment is going to help.
This is for me a new found knowledge, what with garage band across my house playing almost everyday puts everything in pespective real fast. Qualities like: Systems Sounds really good, lot of details, front to back soundstage, involving, dynamic etc is just characteristics of satisfying sound, but reality is it is far from reality:)
Tim is correct. This is ego driven hobby. That is okay as long as you know your goal: Right balanced sound. You can have your cake and eat it too. You just have to admit your high priced equipement/system's faults. Most audiophiles are fooling themselves most of the times, myself included.
Phew! I feel much better.
This is for me a new found knowledge, what with garage band across my house playing almost everyday puts everything in pespective real fast. Qualities like: Systems Sounds really good, lot of details, front to back soundstage, involving, dynamic etc is just characteristics of satisfying sound, but reality is it is far from reality:)
Tim is correct. This is ego driven hobby. That is okay as long as you know your goal: Right balanced sound. You can have your cake and eat it too. You just have to admit your high priced equipement/system's faults. Most audiophiles are fooling themselves most of the times, myself included.
Phew! I feel much better.