Originally Posted by ChrisW66
Room treatment done (tastefully) right, can be athletically pleasing without wrecking the "family room".
I will ignore your knock against what you consider expensive woo-woo, and agree that room correction offers the best bang-for-the-buck once you own great speakers. -And you can do much of it digitally for few dollars without anything ugly added to the decor.

Hitchhikers are already big believers in the power of DSP, so checkout homeaudiofidelity.com if you haven’t already.

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