Should Room Acoustics be an Audiogon ‘topic’?

tcutter 

Just imagine how much better their rooms would sound if they had put as much of that money as their living space would allow into acoustics.

You're assuming that spending money on audio cables and spending money on acoustic treatments are mutually exclusive. Odd.

I don't get why these super expensive rooms leave the hardwood floor untreated. (Jays new rooms have high gloss, super reflective floors.) Because it looks nice and even more expensive? Treat the ceiling but don't treat the incredibly reflective floor?  In this room they could have put wall to wall carpet would be a huge improvement but they treat the ceiling and walls with expensive panels instead. 

Makes me question if the motive is really acoustic sound improvement or it just looks impressive.

@cleeds 

Not at all. I encourage people to spend money on both.

@gdaddy1 

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/11207

Better?

Floor first reflections are covered by a 9’x13’ half inch hand cut wool over 3/8" felt pad. The best I could do. And wall to wall carpeting would potentially deaden the room too much.  

@tcutter 

I have to say... I love the look of that floor and the entire room!! However, without question, the floor is acoustically the most reflective thing in that room and most of it remains untreated (possibly a good thing after all the treatments added) The area rug is certainly helpful.

I've done alot of attempted sound treatments that are always met with rejection... "NO! I'm not going to cover the floor!"  Do you know how much that floor costs?"

Once people spend that much on a beautiful floor they are very reluctant to cover it over with carpet no matter what acoustic benifits can be gained. The point being appearence wins over performance everytime.

This brings up the topic of measuring the reflective performance of a room to know what works and what doesn't.  The reverberation time RT-60 can be measured. How do you know when enough is enough? or too little?