In the end it looks as if Goldensound was wrong about a couple of points, but I think most people outside of ASR (and many people within ASR it seems) have no problem with his approach. But it resulted in 3 suspensions and 20 pages of some of the worst drivel I have seen on this forum. Well done to
@AdamG247 for putting the thread back on topic. I hope never to see that on ASR again and if those members don't learn their lesson I would strongly support permanent bans being handed out. I was thinking of starting a debate as to whether his Eames chair is a real Herman Miller or a replica but I don't want to poke the bear when he's in a bad mood
Still, after some of our more knowledgeable members chimed in, it became really educational. I hope that if Goldensound reads this, he ignores all that crap about his age, etc. and only takes away the learning points, which are:
- ordinary room furnishings usually provide enough treatment for most living rooms
- there is a Goldilocks range of room reverb - not too wet, not too dry
- anechoic chambers are not anechoic <80Hz, and attempting to treat bass modes with bass traps is futile, expensive, and intrusive
- DSP is a powerful option for treating below Schroder
- go read Toole (I will go read Toole, again!)