Should Room Acoustics be an Audiogon ‘topic’?


The available topics on Audiogon do not include Room Acoustics. This area is as important as any other, and has a far greater impact on what we hear than amps, preamps, and cables put together, IMO. Does anyone know how to lobby to include it? Do I need to start a petition? ; )

tcutter

Emphatic yes! Dollar for dollar, it’s the best money I’ve spent on audio. I would, especially like to know more about using tools like REW to inform empirical decisions. My room was analyzed professionally, and I used REW to record the rooms properties at different stages of the installation. I learned a lot, but still not enough to do an installation from scratch.

@wyoboy 

I would have loved to have my speakers on wheels in my old set-up, except I couldn’t get past the notion that they would not provide a steady and immobile platform with all of the joints, so I went with gliders instead. I still had to move furniture so the speakers were the easy part. In an earlier post, I showed this set-up as before/after wife was home. It is what convinced me to go full-monty once I had a dedicated space. 

I am self-taught and have made mistakes and probably still have some in my future, but I can say it sounds far superior to doing nothing, even if some parts could be improved if I only knew how. I would have liked knowing there was a reference for advice and help besides from the vendors, who have an agenda ("GIK went wild"). I don’t think I have ever asked for thoughts on acoustics on this forum because it seems to be unimportant, which is reinforced by its absence as a topic. It does rise to the top in other forums, but many of them are downright nasty; you need to start with a graduate degree before they’ll deign to help.

@tcutter Given the enthusiastic response here to having room acoustics as a "topic" have you tried contacting Tammy and asking her if they can add it as a searchable topic?

@wyoboy 

Thank you for the suggestion. I was wondering what next steps could be. Do you know how I can do that?