A touch of brightness

[Womaz]

How is the intelligibility of speech in your room?
I have never heard good sound quality (or intelligible speech) in a minimalist room. Carpets and curtains are essential IME. I have both, with one carpet hung on the wall opposite the full height curtain on the French window. I also have CD racks breaking up side reflections on one side of my room and LPs on the other. It looks cluttered but sounds much better than plain walls.

Good point, conversations on TV can be hard to hear at times but thought that could just be my 52 year old ears
Some experimenting today and a few things did tame the treble. Speakers not toed in, made a big difference as did placing the speaker nearer the back wall. Also reducing the treble by -5
However in all cases i lost other things. Vocals for definite were less prominent, they did lose a bit of the sibilance. Also felt the soundstage suffered.
Curtains will now be drawn , I live in top apartment and never shut them but may in future. Sounds like rig could make a difference , but i don't bloody like them, I like the minimalistic look. Funny though as the daughter been wanting me to get a shaggy rug for ages.

To be honest I am just starting to thank that as this is the best system I have had, it may be just that I am now noticing the bad recordings.

Had Beck - Mornimg Phase on before and it sounded bloody awesome.
I have started to listen to female country singers a lot more and this especially can sound brittle, voices sharp