Room improvement

Adjusting my ears to the speaker and room worked perfect and cost nothing.

Oh, it does. It’s mentally fatiguing. At least for me. There are some interesting articles i keep meaning to pursue about the dual streams of information our brain perceives, and how much effort is involved in filtering out the room acoustics and noise.


I specifically use my stereo to relax my brain from this in-office sound brain fatigue. Can’t do it in a live room. But I know from talking and listening to many audiophiles that for a lot of them it's a non issue.

You are welcome, uncledemp, glad I could help you enjoy this hobby even more!

As much more educated gents than me have pointed out, the amount of room treatment needed can vary a great deal by speaker, so the idea that one way or the other is more correct is not well supported.


Controlled narrow directivity can greatly enhance imaging and detail, reducing the need for room treatment. Line arrays, horns and panels (ESLs) can really help.


But a well treated room can take any of them and make them sound spectacular. A poor room will be much more speaker dependent.


The buyer's own preferences matter a great deal. Personally, I have to use a half and half approach. I used tweets with narrow dispersion, and add bass traps and room treatment.

Personally I think it’s the system’s responsibility to sound good in the room. Not the room’s responsibility to sound good in the system.

Which limits you to speakers which interface well with the room. A good sounding room can accept a much broader range of speakers.  Small speakers sound huge, large speakers sound refined.

Best,
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Contact GIK Acoustics. You can send them pics online of your room, and they will help you. Great advice, phenomenally high value products.