Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms


I remember running into an audiophile who refused to consider anything about room acoustics. He bought speakers specifically for live, untreated rooms.

Anyone else? What was your solution?
erik_squires

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(...I'm not just active late @ night.....vampire status is not something I aspire to.....yet....*g*...)
*G* Now, There's a quest:
How to make terrible speakers sound great in a given room....

I suppose it could be done....but at the end of it all, one would rather toss them into a bonfire since it took so much effort...

nonoise....I dunno, guy....'acoustic mirrors'....🤔

What to do if the 'sweet spot' isn't sweet enough?

Now, I've run into omnis' like the Duevel that use ellipsoid cones and balls to bounce sound around to varying degrees....

I've not been impressed, frankly....

But they could be fun to fart around with while we're in lock up....;) 
@erik_squires ...I've got a heater to contend with, so I hear your pain. ;)

..and then the ambient temp goes up...AC racket, yay..."It's always Something...."

@jsandman...Well, Walsh (and Ohms) do respond better to 'carefully treated spaces' because they're omnis..and depend on the room but in a different fashion.

Played loudly in a small space isn't something to recommend....unless you're not 'playing for nuance', *G*

At that point, you may as well put a dog door on the speaker enclosure and get in....;)

'Drive those demons away with dB's...' 😜
Tam Drive, approaching the 'S' @ the intersection w/CM...

Used to ride that into and back from work in Sausalito....back when it was non-burb'ed.....
....and I lived in Corte Madera for awhile...and was totally clueless at the time....

Missed opportunities.....

Hell, he may have been the guy yelling at me from his car that my 2 stroke Yamaha RD-350 was too loud!

(....the fact that we were approaching a right turn with a merge, with him on the 'inside' and next to me was more of a concern at the time....and a tight left after....  Survival supersedes Subtleness, frankly.... )