Ditto on the Rives CD - grand shtuff. Though it does become a love/hate thing, you know? I'd gone through some other discs & done the (trivial, in retrospect) calibration to the RS meter by hand, etc. Then I broke down and got Rives and got a bit more thorough. I also became acutely aware of nodes and stuff like that. Wound up turning the whole room 90 degrees, researching treatments (and doing entry-level stuff), and in the end it was the nodes and the math that kinda led me to just throw up my hands, kick back, and just listen. I did learn a lot with the Rives, though.
You do have to guard against becoming way too anal about it all - I mean, it's not like I've outlined the exact spot for my butt in the "A" listening position or anything like that...
You do have to guard against becoming way too anal about it all - I mean, it's not like I've outlined the exact spot for my butt in the "A" listening position or anything like that...