question out loud how folks who spend a small fortune on top of the line speakers can even know how good their speakers sound if they have a screwed up room. So, even if one owned time aligned speakers like Vandies or GMAs, all the time alignment in the world will not fix a screwed up room.Amen!!
Bifwynne
(& I have written & said such a thing before too many times to count now). Good to see Bruce echoing the same now.....
here's a cut & paste from a (cheeky) post (cheeky parts scrubbed) from back in 2012 when one Audiogon member started a thread called "Room Treatment made me cry.....a little" - he had discovered the huge benefits of room treatment....
03-26-12: Bombaywalla
Amazing and not expected, at least not this level of improvement and emotional connection.
I'm very happy for you now that you are so emotionally connected to your music during playback. Good job!
........ it's been written & said (if you attend audio shows, informal gatherings at friends' places, dealer's showrooms, etc) that the room is perhaps the most important interface to a music playback system. You could get 1 item each from every Stereophile A list OR TAS's best of the best OR from your favourite audio mag and you could connect those components together in your listening room & you will find that your sonics are not A-list at all; in fact, not even close until you treat your room. You could have trolled the A'gon archives for tomes written on this subject to find that the room is the inital/final frontier w.r.t. playback. Anyway, I/we are happy that you learnt this ......... Enjoy your music...........
Bombaywalla