I think you either have to trust the folks who have heard and measured your room or not.
You are buying their recommended solution, so maybe ask them for the best way to work towards the complete solution step by step and look for improvements each step along the way. Or perhaps get a really good discount on teh whole deal and be done with it. A satisfaction guarantee would be nice especially if there is significant $$$s involved.
Not to complicate things, but wood diffusers like those referenced look like pretty expensive ways to accomplish the goal. Everyday household items can often be used to absorb and diffuse sound for much less, assuming aesthetic issues can be worked out. Diffusing and absorbing are two different ways to accomplish similar goals. Maybe try to add some things into your listening room to help break up whatever nodes or resonances might be occurring.
Or there are surely other commercially available treatments of various types (bass traps, absorption panels, diffusing panels, even both combined) for absorption or dispersion that are more economically designed and equally as effective. I have purchased such things off Amazon and found they need not cost much to be both effective and attractive.
Off the cuff, that room looks pretty spartan and more lively as a result with speakers not too far away from walls and likely in need of some combo of absorption up front, maybe also bass traps after that. Adding diffusing panels made of hard wood (rather than say absorbent foam or equivalent) that is also highly reflective of sound does not make sense to me from what I can tell.
Have you tried moving the speakers further out into the room for comparison? Did the consultants suggest or consider that as an option to selling treatments? More distance to walls might have a similar effect and help open up soundstage and imaging perhaps as well. Easy and no cost to try and see.
You are buying their recommended solution, so maybe ask them for the best way to work towards the complete solution step by step and look for improvements each step along the way. Or perhaps get a really good discount on teh whole deal and be done with it. A satisfaction guarantee would be nice especially if there is significant $$$s involved.
Not to complicate things, but wood diffusers like those referenced look like pretty expensive ways to accomplish the goal. Everyday household items can often be used to absorb and diffuse sound for much less, assuming aesthetic issues can be worked out. Diffusing and absorbing are two different ways to accomplish similar goals. Maybe try to add some things into your listening room to help break up whatever nodes or resonances might be occurring.
Or there are surely other commercially available treatments of various types (bass traps, absorption panels, diffusing panels, even both combined) for absorption or dispersion that are more economically designed and equally as effective. I have purchased such things off Amazon and found they need not cost much to be both effective and attractive.
Off the cuff, that room looks pretty spartan and more lively as a result with speakers not too far away from walls and likely in need of some combo of absorption up front, maybe also bass traps after that. Adding diffusing panels made of hard wood (rather than say absorbent foam or equivalent) that is also highly reflective of sound does not make sense to me from what I can tell.
Have you tried moving the speakers further out into the room for comparison? Did the consultants suggest or consider that as an option to selling treatments? More distance to walls might have a similar effect and help open up soundstage and imaging perhaps as well. Easy and no cost to try and see.