2. amps-preamps
  3. 189493-150037

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

Yeah you may need an absorption panel if your room is completely open, ie. No rug or furniture, ie just lonely single chair. But if your system can't cut it in any room then it's a system problem and you should be able to discern a good system regardless of the room.  Unless you put it on the roof of your apartment building but the Beatles seemed to have survived that effort

I think people go nuts with all this absorption acoustical room treatment stuff and it looks kind of awful.  Once in a while you see a really cool looking diffuser panel and I would definitely want one. But to have a system that works really well without any of the acoustical panel distractions is a wonderful thing.

emergingsoul
jastralfu's avatar
jastralfu
218 posts
 

Oh, and you both hate bookshelves but wish you had them.  I’m not judging you just making some observations that make the point of the thread hard to follow.  By they way, how do you like your 901s?

Post removed 
emergingsoul OP
954 posts
 

Somehow I think if you have a good system in a furnished room somehow you have to validate yourself as a true audio connoisseur by putting stylish acoustical panels throughout the room. Somehow not having them makes a room seem unfinished even though it may sound perfectly fine. I think people are hooked on getting acoustical panels in their furnished rooms and may just live with them after they get them because removing them is something they probably just wouldn’t do. A diffuser panel of 3 x 5 in a furnished room room hardly does much of anything, but it can look really really cool. I would have one but I’ve never found anything that I’ve really want to put up on the wall.

I think everyone’s been conditioned to assume they should pursue acoustical panels even though many can never really discern a difference in a room that’s furnished. . Walking into a room with a nice audio system without acoustical panels and someone will say oh you need acoustical treatment.

jastralfu's avatar
jastralfu
218 posts
 

Disagree.  If the reason is the pursuit of the best sound the system can create in that space then it has nothing to do with being conditioned to think acoustic treatment equals true audiophile.  What is the definition of sounds fine by the way?  There are plenty of videos online you can watch and hear the massive difference in the before and after.  I don’t want to treat my room using furniture, I want to use acoustic treatment designed specifically to manage issues I have in my room.  I have no idea what piece of furniture I need to add in order to manage a +3db rise at 50hz.  However, I can do some research and find acoustic treatment that can help flatten that out.

texbychoice
103 posts
 

The OP has an opinion, is not forthcoming with relevant information, and shows no interest in "better understanding" as claimed.

No reason to continue this circular firing squad.

More to discover