If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments?

@texbychoice

I did post some details within this thread about my system. You don’t have any details on your system and I’m not really interested.

I have a bass trap in the corner otherwise minimally treated room .

I’m a big fan of getting rid of reverbs so one absorption panel is on the far wall but so hard to determine what it really does in the scheme of everything else in the room. Speakers are pulled forward quite a bit and I do know this really helps.

All I’m saying is that lots of people just throw around a few acoustical panels in their rooms and because it’s a furnished room for most people I would guess most people are hard pressed to discern a difference. For those who have dedicated listening rooms that’s a whole Nother animal since furniture is minimal. If I had a decent looking diffuser panel I’ll probably put it on the damn wall. But I’ve never seen anything I really like looking at because most of them are pretty ugly and you need a lot of them.

@emergingsoul

"I have a bass trap in the corner otherwise minimally treated room .

I’m a big fan of getting rid of reverbs so one absorption panel is on the far wall"

A week ago you mentioned plural of both

"Treatments consist of corner base traps extending up to the ceiling, a couple absorption panels throughout the room"

"’i’m a big fan of getting rid of reverbs so one absorption panel is on the far wall but so hard to determine what it really does in the scheme of everything else in the room"

On the surface it would seem that you should be able to hear the differences in the room as furnished with and without the panel(s)/traps{s)  Is there something that prevents that? Also, would you not be able to take measurements with your dirac with and without to gauge the impacts?

Why is everybody so dependent upon what dirac says? Adding an additional absorption panel in a 20 x 18 room that’s furnished is extremely hard to discern. Maybe Superman hearing would do it.

Maybe on the dirac curve they’ll be a slight change but in all fairness I think people go a bit neurotic when it comes to sound treating their rooms especially when they are furnished.

@emergingsoul

"Why is everybody so dependent upon what dirac says?"

Well, you stated this in a prior post hence the question I raised

"Using dirac, I did acoustical measurements and the original curve versus DSP were very similar. It got a bit smoother. ....Would love to know if other people test their rooms before and after doing acoustical panels and how the curve changes."

Care to explain, or simply deflect as ususal?

"Adding an additional absorption panel in a 20 x 18 room that’s furnished is extremely hard to discern. Maybe Superman hearing would do it."

Seriously?

"in all fairness I think people go a bit neurotic when it comes to sound treating their rooms especially when they are furnished."

But supposedly you have "Treatments consist of corner base traps extending up to the ceiling, a couple absorption panels throughout the room" Or , is it this version "I have a bass trap in the corner otherwise minimally treated room .I’m a big fan of getting rid of reverbs so one absorption panel is on the far wall"

This entire thread is a mess. OP doesn’t have treatment but does have it.  Why are people dependent on Dirac, by the way I use it too.  It’s all over the place.