Quote:You don't need room treatments with this speaker.
I don't know RR, I wonder if your room has optimal room dimensions for minimal room modes and you had the flexibility for the absolute best speaker placement????
In my room, the HR-1
with the Torii MkIII definitely needed treatment and EQ to sound reasonably optimal. The biggest issue here, even after making bass traps (theoretically doing work from maybe 25-200Hz) with the Torii there is a bump from 35-55 Hz of roughly +8 dB at its peak.... about 45 Hz. Additionally, this is after tuning down the low bass by closing a bunch of the HR-1 plinth space, putting Deflex panels in the HR-1s to reduce already relatively low resonance, and by tuning out some driver resonance with a few 3mm Marigo resonance absorbing dots (I could hear this very well as a real and useful tuning device).
With the Rachel, this problem area still exists, but is not the problem it is with the Torii. This variable alone is pretty notable. But even with the less pushy/powerful Rachel, it sounds notably better with room treatment and EQ.
I also have a fair bit of absorption that works from about 250 up to the higher frequencies. Even so, I have up to roughly 6 dB peaks and valleys spread around through the spectrum, and there is no doubt, they do effect the sound. Then it just depends how many of these a room/system makes, where they are in the sound spectrum, and finally how much they effect one's impression of the sound.
With all the variables of room dimensions, and depending how this makes all the many individual frequency sound waves overlap, creating multiple cancelations and amplifications depending on the wave length....and with all the variables of room materials, the things that are in the room (and whether they absorb, diffuse or reflect), where the speakers are placed, system parts, and in my case, what amp you drive the speakers with....it appears to me there are nearly endless possibilities as to how well a speaker does in a room without treatment.
For me, even though I have always had a great soundstage even with the bass bloat, as I continue to explore and fix room stuff, my sound gets better and better...notably so. This is not to say the room is totally sorted out by any means... I just don't have the space to get it really right. But with this and that....physical and electronic adjustments, it sounds beautiful...transporting. I would say it sounded great once I got the bass bloat sorted, but now it is notably greater!
I am jealous of those of you who do not need to fix room issues.