Not trying to be provocative. I just genuinely don’t under why people who obsess over creating the best possible sonic experience in their homes—and are willing to spend a fortune on equipment to do so—don’t seem to care much at all about the appearance of the rooms that they’ll be spending so much time in. There are so many photos on here of dreary man caves with bad carpets and tacky furniture, many of them overstuffed with multiple sets of amps and speakers and giant cables snaking all over the floor. I love this subreddit and the passion people have for stereos and great-sounding music. I’m just a bit confused by why people who have so much aesthetic sophistication in one area seem to lack it another.
If your system can’t produce the sound without changing something in your room that system sucks any good system should be able to power through and sound decent or great in any situation as long as the music is recorded well
Explain that to echos and how two speakers in open air can sound fantastic, but placed in a cathedral they sound like crap.
You absolutely have to modify rooms to correct for room problems like standing waves, null nodes, etc. Speakers for the most part don’t have the problems, rooms have problems (within reason… some rooms are great, with the correct amount of natural baffles and absorbing material, some speakers are objectively crap).