Rives Audio Consulting - Advice?

I consider the room the most important component. You can upgrade and upgrade all your different equipment, but until you get the room right, you are just pissin' in the wind.
I feel Rives is a great value and his rooms have a high WAF. I know, because my wife is OK with our room.

Thanks all - the WAF is important - should pursue the "Entry" or "Custom" eval?

Hi,

You will want to do the Level 1 service. I recently did that with Rives, and I am currently assembling everything from the plans.

You can't go wrong with a Rives consultation, it's the best money you can spend for your stereo. The speaker/room interaction dictates the majority of what you hear, and fixing the problems here should be the #1 priority.

I contacted Rives about 6 months ago. I was planning a major remodel to my house, and would be adding a dedicated listening room. I contacted Rives and told them about my project and asked to discuss how I can incorporate their services into the design process.

They told me that to initiate a discussion, I would have to fill out their questionnaire and fax it back to them. I downloaded the questionnaire and took a look. It asked questions like the existing room dimensions, existing furnitures inside the room, my current system. I called back and talked to a lady and told her the following:
1/ There's no existing room. I am starting from the ground up to build the ideal room from scratch;
2/ I don't want the room to be designed to my current system. The room should not be "system dependent" as I would be upgrading components from time to time.
3/ All I would be faxing back would be 12 pages of mostly blank paper.

She insisted that I fax the blank sheets back before they would talk to me. So I decided to look else where for some assistance in this project.

FrankC

I am also doing a new room. I just filled out the questions that made sense and left the ones that didn't apply blank. Had a great call with Richard and am really enjoying the process so far.