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I have two listening areas--one upstairs in the living room for my own pleasure, and a second in a basement family room for comparative listening using designs under development or examples of the competition. Neither has any room treatments, although I did install heavy curtains upstairs to cut down on reflections from the large picture window behind the speakers. That only made a marginal difference. If my rooms were more problematic, I might have experimented more with treatments. As for distance, it shouldn't make too much difference for MTM designs, assuming you are listening on the tweeter axis. (And if you're not--do something, because that's the only correct listening position.) For 3-ways, my design distance is 3.5 meters (tweeter axis), although anything from 2.5 meters to infinity will not make a drastic difference. If you get closer than that, driver integration will suffer.
Just out of curiosity (since we've been talking about tweeter axis in two threads), what's the +/- window that your ears need to be in order to prevent lobing with an MTM desgin (the ST's for example)? In other words, how much higher and lower do your ears need to be (regarding tweeter level) before issues occurs? Are we talking 1 inch here, or more leeway?
I have a total of 6 RealTraps products in my small (~12'x15') room. These consist of two MiniTraps on stands in the front corners behind my SongTower RT's, two RFZ panels on stands at the first reflection points (determined with a mirror), and a single HF MiniTrap mounted horizontally on the wall ~3' behind my head. I also have a spare RFZ panel that I put on the floor in a rear corner. This one has a dent in the frame from shipping damage. RealTraps promptly sent me a replacement, and never asked for the damaged one to be returned... BONUS! They are a great company and provide excellent advice. I may add some Corner Traps one day, but so far the configuration I have has made a tremendous difference in smoothing out the bass response and and imaging in my room. I can honestly say that the easily audible improvement is well worth the money spent.
Room treatments have made a profound impact on my system and every system I have ever heard with them. I cannot imagine a room without them.
I am afraid too even consider getting a turn table, my current addiction would probaly become worse.
Unless you have kids you're still supporting financially or have a wife who hates that you spend money on A/V, that wouldn't be such a bad thing.