Sorry for waking the dead.....but I was doing some searching here on AC for comments I remember from James Tanner a couple years ago regarding digital room correction. I'm hoping James will see this thread and give some further commentary.
So James, here's my questions: what about not digital room correction, but analog room correction. By that I mean, good old fashioned, high quality tone controls, graphic equalizers, and parametric equalizers? I remember an article put out by Pete Thomas (?) at PMC speakers on their website about how tone controls had suffered a bad rap, and were in fact useful and justified. That article stuck with me, and along with your stance on DSP, got me thinking recently about DSP. I'm tempted to try DSP. Or not. Could a parametric equalizer along with some room treatment help the average room, while avoiding the DSP pitfalls as you mentioned? Or do equalizers commit the same sins?