Placement along with room treatments.... I recently moved, my last room was a nightmare. New room has better dimensions but more importantly a thick carpet.
I used my Veleodyne sms 1 to measure the new room's low freq response and it was damn near flat... the sms applied very little eq... the old room has a serious room mode centered at 40hz that really muddied the sound , the sms 1 used a lot of eq for the old room, -9dB and unlike the old room, the new room has no clap echo.
This system has never sounded better and the only thing that changed was the room.... I know its probably not possible to set up in another room but my experience really demonstrated how much the room and it's properties play into the overall sound .
I used my Veleodyne sms 1 to measure the new room's low freq response and it was damn near flat... the sms applied very little eq... the old room has a serious room mode centered at 40hz that really muddied the sound , the sms 1 used a lot of eq for the old room, -9dB and unlike the old room, the new room has no clap echo.
This system has never sounded better and the only thing that changed was the room.... I know its probably not possible to set up in another room but my experience really demonstrated how much the room and it's properties play into the overall sound .