How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing!

The answer is almost always your room. If it is not your room, then the answer is likely your speakers and how they interact with your room. Maybe it is your amp in combination with your speakers, and maybe you have screwed that up with a speaker cable that attempts to do something unneeded and screws up other stuff in the process. If vinyl is your poison, then it could be your turntable setup, but ... see above.

I think most people are on endless tweak searches because their acoustic fundamentals are lacking. People with well designed rooms with accurate neutral speakers tend to be "happier" than those without ... and usually just listening to other people's system, or a visit to a dealer showroom reminds them how good they have it.

+1 jetter!

Furniture is not a replacement for room treatment. It can even make things worse.

Even though your posts is more of your attempt to troll virtually every post I make, at least this time you attempted to make a post related to the content of what I said.

I think anyone that understands anything about room treatment and acoustics knows that furniture is no substitute for room treatment unless you have found a way to:

• comfortably sit on room cushions glued to first reflection points
• make effective use of a couch screwed to the ceiling
• not spilled a glass of wine sitting on a bumpy coffee table mounted vertically between the speakers on the front wall, or perhaps side walls, or back wall (diffusers)
• sure my wife gets mad at me times and being a teacher would like to put me in the corner, but I think a bass-trap will be more effective than me in a chair

However, I am sure you are an expert on acoustics and can share with us your expertise to solve the real acoustic problems, that audiophiles face with furniture.

p.s. I know you love that leather chair, but the cloth one will reflect less high frequencies.

clearthink1,031 posts12-31-2019 10:50amaudiozenology"Furniture is not a replacement for room treatment. It can even make things worse"

This "information" is so wrong on so many levels, aspects, and issues that it is hard to know where to begin a good place would probably be that furniture is a kind of room treatment even if that is not the type that you like!

23 / 30   ... again with my apologies. I am reporting posts.

Again, my apologies to the other members. I have asked the moderators to deal with a member who has made 29 posts in the last 2 weeks, 22 of them replies to my posts in a variety of threads, mainly personal attacks. I am doing what I can.

If the EMI/RFI is already on the AC line, a power cord is not going to get rid of it unless it has passive elements (inductors, capacitors) to eliminate EMI .... and I would rather pay $1.00 for those than spend $1K plus to have someone put them in the cord.


The last 3 feet or first 3 feet is specious since it is part of a circuit, potentially from the transformer outside your house. We can likely ignore the other 500 miles. If you are using an isolation transformer, power conditioner, etc. then it could be considered the first and last 3 feet. Where grounding is concerned, you could also consider it the first and last 3 feet. And you could call it the first 3 feet is your audio product is generating EMI and you don't want it getting into anything near.


I am not sure calling it an extension of a transformer is a good idea. Should you be paying $1000+ to put an "extension" on 50+ feet of somewhat generic copper wire, that is part of magnetic circuit with limited bandwidth, hysteresis, etc?

I am always amazed as well. Amazed quite honestly at how awful most of the rooms sound. Most of the rooms are poster children for the need for proper room acoustic treatment. I know that is harsh, but I always get a kick out of the "Best Sound" awards ... of which the number seems to grow every year. How many "best" can you have?  

Check out an audio show like Axpona or one of the other regional shows to see how other systems sound. I am always amazed when I go.