Which would you rather have a purpose built room optimized for one particular set of speakers and set-up or adaptive response? The point I was making is that designing a room to compensate for or optimize a particular 4 tower system marries you to that set-up; because in the physical world there is no universal or one-size-fits-all when it comes to room acoustics.
Do you have any experience with electronic bass traps?
Carlos,
you are over thinking the idea of a purpose built room. it's not realistic to build a room, plunk down speakers, and expect magic. no one here has done that, nor found that to be how it worked out after spending time. small room acoustics are just not that predictable. you have to work to sort out any room.
my first 3-6 months in my new room were euphoric, then as i slowly woke up to what was not happening i messed around for 10 years figuring out my purpose built room. but the room never held me back, i held myself back.
all a purpose built room allows for is to not have the room be the limitation. it removes most of the 'what-if's'. so your ceiling is higher. and it can look however it needs to.
putting up with an existing domestic room means settling for various limitations, or signal path manipulations which many of us won't consider.
some rooms in homes simply sound great naturally. my first room was one of those rooms, but just too small for big music. a limitation. it took years to get my new purpose built room to sound as magical as that small room. but about 5 years ago the new room passed by that original small room and has never looked back.
i've owned 4 different high level speaker systems in my purpose built room; looking back any of them could have been really well sorted out in this room if i would have been up to the task when i owned them.
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