Disregarding my inital thoughts about the carpet issue, you could always tuck more rug under the couch!

I like a lot how the room is looking, the plants in the center look great and sort of hide Melquiades very well.   I am sure the acoustic properties of the plant will make up for the wall to wall carpet no problem.  Actually I had trouble finding the amps at first glance, but detected the nice breakfast table on the deck!
Now If I may suggest a couple of things,  I like how the bronce pots look on the plants, I am thinking mabe a nice big sort of bronce parroquete cages around the Melquaides will look good and work as security against little hands.   Another thing, I have tried a few different colors on my horns and I think putting color on the horns makes a big change for the good,  maybe all white horns will look nice...

Now we all know moving speakers 1/4 of an inch makes big changes in sound,  one foot, makes a whole other room.
What about "sliding" Macondo around the room, now that you have a nice smooth wood floor, and, according to DpOLs place them in the perfect location!
Remember your room with the Midbass horns in the back require a more careful placement!
Now your system Romy, I am glad to say, is a world reference of what is posible to achieve in audio, and your opinions about room placement and audio in general are quite revered, even if secretly by some!
I am sure once you find the perfect spot for the speakers you can work out a nice place for the carpet,  maybe side ways, or maybe get a big pair of scissors, nah, forget that last one...

JJ Triode wrote:

I'm sorry to say it, but I think Amy's large rug is too large.  A smaller one, or better yet, two much smaller ones with some bare floor in between, is what I would play with. I also think you should recalibrate the channel levels and time-align them before making any more judgements about the room.  For sure you would not try to make your choice between an Audi and a BMW when both have bald tires and need new spark plugs... The "visual feel" of the room is very much improved and this makes up for a lot.  The Sound will eventually come back with more efforts, probably not even major efforts.

Jorge wrote:

What you describe as "haze" in highs, happened to e when I added some shades in the front wall of my system, took it away and it was gone, I think highs were being disperesed too much, but I am just theorizing.    My system is VERY sensitive to anything I put in the front wall.  Have you tried taking away the plants for a while and putting them back in?

Yesterday I retune and recalibrated the whole Macondo and Milqs, tubes, drives, horns, angles, timing… everything. The snapshot or fully calibrated Macondo that I made in the page 14 of this thread was phenomenal help. I think everyone who runs multichannel multi-amp shall have something like this.

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Site_Images/MacondoCalibration.jpg

The sound as now is fine, I do think that I will be keep playing with some critical fine-positioning but the basic sound as not is more or less acceptable. I discovered that there were two major factors that fixed the problems I reported before.

First it was the large ceiling trunk that I removed as Amy wanted to have direct lights under the ceiling to highlight her carpet. The lights went up and the large 6 foot long and 1.5 foot diameter fiberglass barrel went down. The barrel, essentially large tube trap, was hanging at the delta of cathedral ceiling and it turn out to be hugely effective. I never had my room without it so, I did not expect that it will be so valuable. Now I need to put some kind of equivalent acoustic treatments at the same location. I was trying to put all fiberglass tube in there but Amy came to me and asked: “How temporary it is”. I am sure I will come up with something pretty and functional; I need a décor inspiration however…

Another interesting factor of the hazy and imbalanced sound that had no body was that fact that my Fundamental Channels were running for 5.5dB and 7dB lower. I know the people who do not know how Macondo works would not get it but it is what it is. The Fundamental Channels do not produce as much sound but they rather act as room coupler, setting the sound’s weight in the room.

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Romy the Cat wrote:

Romy the Cat wrote: This mooring a brilliant idea hit me. Instead of the pale and un-spicy while foam the boars me I will use a completely different idea. I so got hooked on it that I ordered the parts already.  A few post above I made a post “Spectacularly cheap, pretty and effective.” about the new Kanuf brown fiberglass tubes.  The picture does not make justice to them – in real world they look spectacular. So, my new brilliant idea is to get rid all my acoustic treatment on this wall:   And to replace it with a ccustom-made organ-like pipes, made from Kanuf brown fiberglass tubes. I mean I will build the organ like pattern, with a combination of the tube of different size and different diameters. The Kanuf brown unfinished pipes looks spectacular ion my room. The only concern I have is that the top of the type will be at the same level as the exit of horn mouth – so I naturally would like the types do not make any Helmholtz resonating; otherwise I would need to close the types.   I very much like the idea as it will kill all HF reflection and very dramatically randomize MF. It might also superbly cool looking. I will be hanging a few “trunks” of the Kanuf brown fiberglass tubes under the center ridge of the cathedral selling  as well. The color of the Kanuf unfinished brown fiberglass tubes is very good matching with the color or my furniture and my carpet. Do not be too bound with the ugly plan-drawing I made. I do anticipate a very-very positive esthetic and caustic outcome of this attempt. The Pussy. That was done two weeks back but now I am uploading some images. I find absolutely wonderful from my point of view configuration how to treat the space behind and above my listening spot. I used the untreated version of the new brown-color pressed fiberglass tubes and I organized them in organ pattern with pipes of different decameter and height. This gives a wonderful combination of high absorption at HF with diffusion at mid frequency. The wall now look, feel and the most important sound very good. It is so good that I even place one pipe at the ridge of the cathedral ceiling, hanging atop of the room. I very much like this configuration. There is one minor moment that I note – the HF absorption become less affective with temperature in the run under 60F. I think it is not a big deal to keep it above 60 as below 60F to be in the room is not particularly comfortable. There is no negative health impact that I observe. Until I touch the pipes with my bare hands I fee nothing and since the pipes are sitting on the walls I do not touch them. It looks like the “carbuncles” do not drop from the walls themselves. My original version had no leafs but it was a bit too boring scene. I added some leafs here and there and it sparkled the wall up and made a very good balance to the wall across with the leafs-loaded “bronze” clock. I also fell that some leafs made the reflection patter more random. Looking at the all of it ornamentation I can’t deny that all of it look very gay. Furthermore, looking at the fun I had inventing and doing all of it I begun to question if I was a gay. However, the pictures that I took this morning do not convey the true lay of the land. The room’s sides have red mahogany feel and the bare walls feel screamingly empty. http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Site_Images/NewRoom_AcousticTreatment_3.JPG The foliage color is very good come along with mahogany, not to mention that foliage colors are my favorite colors. This is very much what I like, the decadence colors of dilapidating walls mixed with despair and decay. If any better place then like this to play Bruckner?