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All good things come to those who can wait patiently—or something like that. I hope that the next house or domicile will be one "past kids." So far, my choice of rooms for my gear is the living room, which contains a piano and no TV. Having a piano in your listening room is a problem ('nuff said). I hope to find a room with dimensions following the Fibonocci (golden) series. As for surfaces, I will love to have the time to experiment, along with AC power wiring. That's probably another six years away, but that only gives me time to research what I want, which is at least 50% of the fun of a hobby like this!

I haven't done any treatments yet, but I plan on it very soon. I want to do some system upgrades and I'd like to have the room tweaked before I start auditioning new equipment to go in it.

Tore up the carpet and put down tile. It was like pulling the blankets off the sound! Big sofas absorb enough sound to keep the room from being too bright.

how about some speakers with woofers in them !!

Didn't exactly "just set up the stuff," but rather set it up carefully, within the constraints of the room. No room treatments, per se, but some acoustically-aware design decisions (zig-zag surface window blinds, wall-to-wall carpet, precisely placed subwoofer at half room width to minimize standing wave at 40Hz [the one corresponding to length at 14Hz is not a problem]).

I didn't do much I just put down an oriental rug. That did a lot of good. I don't have the worst room in the world. It will do untill I can get rich and do better.

For me the room is not so much the weakest link but it's become the last completed link! For as a lover and owner of the once 'exotic panel' speaker realm I've always known that the "room" is as much a part of this speaker's overall performance and cabinet if you would! I also feel that although subwoofers have made great strides in performance they ultimately achieve their best when the room is correctly brought into the equation. So after 20 plus years of product changes and growth I'm now ready to complete the process by trying to understand better my "separate" audio environment in accordance to the room it's in. That last tweek I feel of as great return as the other components in a system once completed!

I have a very open and somewhat unique listening environment that's always been plagued by slap echo effects. Rather than spend a small fortune on overpriced commercial solutions, my wife and I visited a local material shop where we picked up acoustically absorbant cloth and filler materials. My wife then assembled a series of acoutical pillows and columns that we strategically placed in our listening room. Of course there was some trial and error but we eventially arrived at placements that damped out those annoying aberrations. I'm happy with the much cleaner sound environment and my wife is proud to point out to our friends her hand-made and fashionable solution to the problem!

ASC Tube Traps. They work great.

Not even most live concerts get the environmental acoustics right, so why should I care about my listening room?

In a new house, I build a room of 13'H x 21'W x 28'L. After positionning the loudspeakers, I installed very deep 16" absorbent for the first reflections. I build and installed in the corners, four Helmholtz resonators for 22Hz and two for 28Hz. And now, I listen to music!

Heavy drapes all around. Sound panels at 1st side wall reflections. Fleece blanket covering fireplace behind listening chair.

All the Following - Hopefully: 1.) Placed speakers properly .. and myself. 2.) Sonex on walls and ceiling.

Other than having a 6x9 rug and over stuffed furniture on a brick floor in a 14 x 18 room with a 12 ft ceiling, all I would need to do is add on another room to the house.It can't cost more than $25k. Hey, at least I get to put my speakers 4 feet into the middle of my living room.

I simply bought one Queen-sized bed eggcrate bedding foamcell, cut it into 24"x24" sheets, and tacked them onto my listening room at the first and second reflection points. In order to find them I used a lamp at each speaker position and a mirror held along the walls (side, front and rear) to see where the reflections were in relation to my "hotseat". Once installed, my music suddenly took on greater focus, PRAT and depth resolution. I can hear "into" the venue (whether its the studio or concert hall)more clearly now, the apparent room sounds seem to have more presence and actually extend INTO my room, not just around me. it almost seems like I did a serious upgrade in all system areas and dropped some BIG $$$ on new gear! All this for less than $20 at Walmart!

Until I can find/afford some room treatments that won't make the other half furious for what I have done to the living room. I am going to have to be content with how thigns are.

My room tunes are good, but nothing quite beats carpets, bookshelves, and plants.

Sonoflex panels on wall behind speakers to absorb backwave from ribbon tweeters.

Absorptive panels - middle back and sides, reflective/diffusive material behind electrostatic speakers.