Should Room Acoustics be an Audiogon ‘topic’?

@tcutter Not sure what you're proposing?  Do you mean putting "Room" under the header that says "Topics" ?  If i put "room" into the "Search Discussions" box there are plenty of threads discussing room acoustics.  Certainly the room is probably the most important factor in how your system sounds but it's not as if any (or most) of us can do any more than focus on speaker placement, re-arrange the furniture or add room treatment--all of which are, and have been, discussed at length and can be searched.  Few of us get to design our own listening room and dimensions/materials will often be component specific.  If you want to talk room acoustics just start a thread and we will--and we'll be able to find it when we search for it years from now--I guess i just don't understand the complaint?  

@wyoboy Thank you.  Your comments have done an excellent job of framing the issue.  Clearly many are conflating room treatments with acoustics in the broader sense that concerns me.  The subject of how to deal with our rooms is a subject that is appropriate in this forum and there should be no reason for debate. 

@wyoboy 

"Part of my motivation to make this a separate topic is to bring it to the forefront. It has been ignored too long and there are so many sound systems posted on Audiogon with wonderfully sounding and well-curated equipment that languish in a morass of bad reflections. Having room acoustics as a separate topic codifies its place in hi-fi and you ignore it not at your peril, but rather as a waste of money because you are not hearing what you paid for as well as you could."

Where’s @mahgister ?  This is right down his alley.  Hope all is well. 

@tcutter No argument here that it's the most important component of your system.  But having said that what else do we say?  We can all change components based on others' recommendations and discussion but we generally can't change the dimensions of our rooms and probably not the materials that compose it so maybe the topic should just be "Room Treatment" ?

@mapman I'm surprised he hasn't chimed in as well but when he does on acoustics it's usually at a doctoral thesis level that most of us don't understand.