What has produced the greatest sound improvement for you?

[Richard Dale]

4 hours ago, Mike48 said:

In my experience, treating the room (acoustic treatment) has made the biggest positive difference. It evened the bass, reduced irritation, and improved imaging and clarity remarkably. In my current room, it's improved a basement room from an acoustic disaster to a very good sounding audio space.

 

Of course, the room itself is fundamentally important, but how many can choose our rooms? We city dwellers, especially, often have to compromise. Fortunately, proper treatment allows any speaker to perform far better in any room -- quite remarkable.

 

Next in importance, I'd say, are the speakers. But still, decent but modest speakers in a well-treated room will sound better, in my experience, than superb, expensive speakers in a room with bad acoustics.

 

I’ve got and all active system with two KEF LS50Ws and a pair of sub woofers. I’ve spent more on acoustic treatment than the HiFi components (it is a pretty large room). But as the system was pretty much unlistenable before treatment and sounded like a bad church hall disco, I would have to say it made the largest difference.

[Richard Dale]

8 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

What you've made for room treatment?

I’ve described my room on this thread: