I've had my activity in this hobby on hold for the past couple of years, but the very first thing I did (just last week, actually) once I started up again was treat my room. I've heard everyone and their mother say that room treatments are the most significant improvement you can make next to speakers, and I've definitely found that to be true.

I added some GIK products to my small listening room (11.5'x16 with sloped 12' ceiling), and the difference is truly amazing. I had no prior experience with these things, so I just got some advice from the manufacturer and from the forums, and went for it. I'm sure I'll add to/adjust what I have with the next go-round, but until then I'm really astonished with how much more clear, rich, and embodied my music and movies are.

I was even joking around in another forum that the show Survivor had become an entirely new experience, because with every slosh of the mud, every splash of the water, crackle of the fire, etc., I was right in the middle of it.

I have nothing negative to say about electronic correction, cause I haven't used anything like that as of yet. But I can give a serious thumb's up to room treatments....everything everyone says about them is TOTALLY true.

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