Modernists Unite, or: saying no to room treatment

i personally think you can have what you want. Just because some 'other' person tells you what you 'must have' to be an audiophile, or qualify as audiophile quality sound.
Some say you must have little widgets to qualify.
Some say only certain ultra expensive cables to qualify.
Others tell you only rooms filled with all sorts of ugly crap qualify.
Look at the piture gallery.. most of the best systems have NO room correction at all. and a few have over the top correction, (in small ugly rooms)
Sorry, just do and have what YOU want. If it sounds good to you then screw what some audiophile guru says.
I DID put some shelves in the corners to the sides behind my speakers ONLY because it was easy. I never had them like that before, but with the new Maggies (3.6s) It makes easy access to the shelves to the back sides of the panels.
If that was not true, forget the sound shaping room stuff.
AND NO the sound deadening stuff is not a must have to get good sound, no matter what the several proclaimed "room correction" gurus say. Just like the folks nuts for stones, clocks, magic cables, or any of that 'tweaky' stuff.

My opinion is that a speaker should sound just fine in a fairly reverberant - just like the acoustic instruments it's supposed to be reproducing. And the key to doing so lies off-axis, not on-axis.

Duke
dealer/manufacturer

Correcting a typo; that first sentence should read:

"My opinion is that a speaker should sound just fine in a fairly reverberant environment..."