I just got back from thr Denver audiofest. What boggles my mind after
listening to all the rooms is how bad most systems sounded because they
didn't treat the room -either with room treatment or electronic room
correction products. Yet most of the people used very expensives
cables, devices to keep the cables off the floor etc. Now I am sure
most people moved things around a bit to do as well as they could - and
some systems sounded great. However I think only a handful had room
treatment and one was using a Rives (which allowed me to do an A/B.
Which easily deomonstrated the products capabilities). I understand
room treatments can be bulky - however - isn't this their bread and
butter? Seems like they losing the forrest for the trees when one has
cables that cost thousands of dollars and the room - below 300hz -
sounds like crap. I am sure a modest system set up well is far better
sounding than a mega-bucks system that is not. I guarantee I could take
a budget system, deploy the right set up and room correction and put
almost every room to shame.

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I just got back from thr Denver audiofest. What boggles my mind after
listening to all the rooms is how bad most systems sounded because they
didn't treat the room -either with room treatment or electronic room
correction products. Yet most of the people used very expensives
cables, devices to keep the cables off the floor etc. Now I am sure
most people moved things around a bit to do as well as they could - and
some systems sounded great. However I think only a handful had room
treatment and one was using a Rives (which allowed me to do an A/B.
Which easily deomonstrated the products capabilities). I understand
room treatments can be bulky - however - isn't this their bread and
butter? Seems like they losing the forrest for the trees when one has
cables that cost thousands of dollars and the room - below 300hz -
sounds like crap. I am sure a modest system set up well is far better
sounding than a mega-bucks system that is not. I guarantee I could take
a budget system, deploy the right set up and room correction and put
almost every room to shame.

You're absolutely right. They are selling toys, not good sound.