Bill M

the normal distribution.

Hi all, I am new to this forum and to this thread but the title really resonated with me. I recently cancelled my account at another hifi forum owing to this troll behaviour. Funnily enough I had hypothesised about the link between this behaviour and personality disorder without seeing this research, so thought it quite amusing. cheers

Hi Marc, I do have a very challenging room as I have a large bay window, a double French door (both on one wall), a very wide room, sitting against a rear wall, and the need to have a very large distance between speakers - 13.5feet. On the upside, it is dedicated to hifi and has solid concrete floors and no neighbours It is also fairly big 24 feet by 17 feet. I would probably call my gear high-end although it is relative. I have Focal Maestro Utopia speakers and a Devialet d premier. I also have a vinyl front end in the form of. Vpi classic (although not relevant here I have power conditioning also. I also have undertaken room treatment with GIK traps - 2 monster bass traps and 3 242s. Benefits are most definitely universal - it is absolutely night and day better. My target curve is different to Mitch - I seem to prefer a slightly softer and fuller sound as I used a version of the B&K curve although mine varies by 13db from 20 to 20. Benefits: Much larger and deeper soundstage much greater focused central image Much more realistic timbre to instruments - I am very familiar with how acoustic instruments sound (particularly piano and orchestral) Bass is solid and fast sounding with no overhang

Hi Mitch, Thanks so much for this excellent article. I purchased Acourate and implemented correction. My system has never sounded so good. Can't believe it took me so long to get into room correction.