On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:46:25 +0000, Laurence Payne
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:04:48 GMT, (Don Pearce) wrote:

This is for the nay-sayers and mockers. In another thread I advocated
the use of a duvet as an acoustic treatment for a poor room.

It certainly had a dramatic effect here!

I can sort of see why the hi-fi crowd sometimes won't make easy
improvements to their equipment, positioning and room for cosmetic or
convenience reasons. But if you're RECORDING...

Well, listening is different to recording, and the requirements of the
room are not the same. When I listen, I do actually want my room to
get involved to a reasonable extent - depending on what I'm listening
to, of course. And when I'm listening I can tune out the room errors
psychologically. This doesn't happen in recording, so a recording room
needs to be a load better than a listening room.

As a rule, if you want to record, you should probably spend 95% of
your money and effort on the room. The gear comes a very distant
second - but it is only the gear people ever seem to talk about. If
you are just listening, the figure probably drops to 90%

d