[Gary Eickmeier]

"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
acquisition...


Ethan is spot on. Beyond a certain basic quality of equipment, room
acoustics
are *by far* the most important thing you can attend to.

For one thing, good room acoustics will take a lot of ambiguity out of
listening
tests to determine which esoteric hardware or tweaks to hardware might
have merit,
and which are a waste of time and money.

Too big a subject for a thread in a newsgroup, but the only room treatment
that results in greater realism is to get a bigger room.

Gary Eickmeier