Should Room Acoustics be an Audiogon ‘topic’?

@billstevenson 

You present yourself as an expert and imply that even at your level of experience and knowledge, acoustics is so fraught with failure that neither you nor anybody else should ever attempt it, even with the advice of other experts, such as Vicoustics, GIK and others. Pretty much guarantees the odds for success are zero. 

My attitude is nothing takes the place of persistence. If you break it, figure it out and fix it. Perhaps you have just not tried hard enough. 

Also, there are many conversations and suggestions on this board that can do more harm than good. Just peruse the digital threads. Trust but verify. And trust your ears.

"Out of difficulties grow miracles.” — Jean de La Bruyère

Should compassion be a religious topic?

@tcutter I apologize if I gave the impression that I am some kind of an acoustics expert.  I am not.  What I am is a person who has experience and a lot of it bad with supposed "experts" in the field.  A lot of things can go wrong and do.  Be careful.  Your idea to verify is not practical because every room is unique.    

There is no easy recipe in acoustics. Then acoustics is complicated matter. This is the bad news...

 The good news:  as an audiophile my goal was not perfection in my dedicated room but an optimization with a set of experiments to train my listening and Ears/brain into recognizing main acoustics concepts with my ears not with a measuring dial.

 The result at no cost was stunning :   Almost surround sound  with spatial cues  so good no headphone (even my beloved K340) can do it...

Acoustics is difficult as a study matter... But it become way easier if you use your ears to navigate the waves when experimenting learning how to recognize an acoustic concept with your ears ( my favorite one : ASW /LV ratio)...It was costly in time sorry... Most people cannot do this before retirement ...

I've grown kind of fond of seeing $100k+ worth of gear stacked up in front of ceiling to floor glass windows in a bare room.