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brianlucey oops I spelled al Schmitts name wrong and Capitol Records wrong, sorry. Al Schmitt was very kind and he was incredibly humble and unassuming. He wanted to show me all around Capitol and the reverb rooms but I was a little star struck to be honest I didn't want to be a pain. He thought what I did was cool (movie sound) and I thought what he did was cool (music) . His speakers were Tannoy he told me they had a custom crossover made by Doug Sax, they sounded awful very very heavy midrange of course I said nothing. I was there because the artist knew I new how her voice should sound the producer was Don Was. I didn't say a word about the sound I knew she was in good hands. I say all that because you respect Al Schmitt and he used literally the worst sounding speakers I've ever heard in a studio, this goes to show it's not about how expensive or perfect the monitors must be they just have to be consistent then you can make decisions in reference to them. I worked with many actors who got 20M for the show we were working on Tom Cruse, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony Hopkins etc. and I had to get their voice right because I had to capture their performance, but many times we had to tell the Director to do another take because something went wrong, believe me Jim Cameron on Titanic didn't want to do any take again for sound but he usually gave in after screaming at me it takes a lot of confidence in your monitoring system to ask for another take at $3000 a minute. Thanks for answering me, you are arrogant but confident and it's nice you invited me to your room. Best

@thespeakerdude you missed my entire point.  Rudely.  I was clearly saying no dogma.  Ever.  I'm not opposed to anything in principle. The OP made a dogmatic assertion.   And a few points to your bad arguments. 1.  MM3 is direct wire from amp to mid drivers. Parallel crossover. Low and high are tapped and yes adjustable.  2. Trinnov is used in 7.1.4 only. To do the geometry, the room and to match the natural curve of the LR.  3.  The idea of correction is false. There is no perfect thus there is no correction.  It's all about the best compromise based in taste.  If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. It's all taste plus math. 

@kenjit Jesus. Brother can you read?  I'm not claiming perfect.  There is no perfect.  Read the posts again. Lot of musical color in my room.  Also a lot of accuracy.  There is no perfect.  No best room.  No design dogma from me.  That was the OP. 

@donavabdear so no music credits ? No name ? Got it.  You're arguing for your system being of superior design concept.  I'm saying "if you love it that's great!"   The rest of your posts are drivel. 

@brianlucey please do not emphasize on incorrect. The MM3 is an active speaker. There is absolutely no denying that. In this case, only the woofer is an active system, but it proves out it works, and it is superior, even in what are, in your estimation, some of the best speakers available.

You are mistaken about what a Trinnov processor does. My idea of correction is not false. Let me repeat your own words to you,

The Trinnov is the most powerful piece of equipment that anyone could ever put into an Atmos studio because it deals with so many elements so quickly. It deals with the measurements for distance, adjusts the 3D placement, improves phase, group delay and speaker amplitude linearity, plus it upgrades the room issues. Beautiful results quickly, and more than physical measurements and treatments alone could accomplish.

The Trinnov has no concept of the speaker on its own, but the speaker with its connected amplifier and anything else in the signal path. The Trinnov corrects the things you mention, phase and frequency response of the combination of your amplifier and speaker. As I wrote above, that is what an active speaker does, but can do it more accurately. Everything else the Trinnov does is layered on top of the speaker correction. These are your other words,

But if you’ve done all you can with the physical side, then you bring in the Trinnov and it’s really quite remarkable, especially for speakers with a traditional crossover. I could not live without it for my Atmos room.

I am sure you will agree that your main speakers, as they correct the response of the combination of your amplifier and speakers, will not sound the same, on their own, with the Trinnov in and out of the system?