[budyog]

Man, does the Christmas tree help the acoustics or what!. I must find a way to keep a cut live dead tree in my living room all year long. How am I going to explain this to my family? I will just have to turn into a Santa Claus all year long.

[Rob Babcock]

I can see it now:  real vs artifical- which sounds best?     We'll debating which species and sizes are best for sound, too.

[budyog]

Oh hell, I did not mean to get that debate started! But I am sure a real tree sounds better the fake tree!

[Rob Babcock]

I can hear it now- a real tree is more "tubey" whereas a plastic tree is more "solid state."   You'll be swapping trees out to DBT them, and you'll find yourself changing trees for each genre.

[budyog]

Oh my gosh! I am going to have to get another tree for my right side. What about placement. Oh man, I have to get a long needle Spruce, or a hybrid ultra tree! that will do it. maybe one for each side and the middle! Help me, help me, I can't see the TV!

[Rob Babcock]

Not to mention the tweaks- are there sonic enhancers you can add to the water in the tree holder to increase "air"?

[MerRev]

wood stands resonate and for some rooms that may be better.  Many have reported the classic metal stands with sorbothane footers really make it a non issue.  Glass bulb ornaments really can wreak hovoc and throw off the soundstage. 
The best ornaments may be the 1st grade decorated toilet paper rolls- some believe altering the length and adding a bit of stuffing will make them work like hemholtz resonators- still others claim if you use enough of them they are great acoustic diffusors.

[Rob Babcock]

Maybe you could cut ornaments out of BlackHole 5?

[warnerwh]

Sounds like you're getting a taste of what room treatment and bass traps can do for you Many of us consider it a revelation in sound quality and are extremely pleased with the results. Having experienced what I have I now consider the first priority in putting together a system.

[Rob Babcock]

Plus, if you buy real room treatments they won't wilt and turn brown by February.

[TheChairGuy]

Start thinking 'wreaths' gentlemen...if you can't talk your significant other into a tree year round 

[budyog]

Wreaths! Shizzamm, ThanksTheChairGuy! A wreath behind each speaker, 3.6 feet off the floor and 1Ft 4" from the side wall!   I will get wreaths and live dead trees without glass ornaments! Tinsel is great with my stereo subs, I can see actually see the sound pressure. A good way to check phase responce! My room with be christmas all the time. It's that natural kind of thing!

[lonewolfny42]

My room with be christmas all the time.

In that case, you can hang a few of these.....filled with acoustic material...

[Folsom]

I think I want to kick you all in the nuts simotaneously.

Also if you consider the length of bass waves it would only make sence the bigger something is the more it would absorb. I am sure if you had massive bass traps it would be better, that went from not so dense to dense perhaps... However how many companies want to make things that stick out six feet from a corner?

[JLM]

Any plants, real/fake, pines/other, serve as diffusers.  I keep a 6 ft tall fake fig tree in my listening room.  Just dust it off annually with a garden hose.

Of course I keep it in a brass pot as we all know brass sounds better than clay or plastic.   

Aesthically it brings some of the outdoors into a room with no windows.

[Antman27]

Cant  forget what type of tree would be best
Balsam Fir
Douglas Fir
Blue Spruce

and so on
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treetypes.html