I think we need to know just how many mortuaries youâve seen and why.
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Wrong room, maybe?
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It is clear from your photos that the appearance would not be everybodyâs cup of tea by long chalk. Out of curiosity, did you consider getting panels matched in colour to your decor, or in some places artwork printed on them (paintings or photographs), the choice of making it stand out deliberate?
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Thing is, with UK houses especially, you generally have lots of awkward spaces, and unless you can build from scratch a listening room (as exemplified in one of the mags recently), you have to make severe compromises to aesthetics, but the benefits can be very good IME. And the journey can be long, frustrating, not to say pricey (albeit relative to kit, itâs often modest!).
Iâd say, âgood on youâ, as until you hear the rewards/benefits, itâs easy to be sceptical, for one reason or another. Your money, your room, your choiceâŠ..or, your castle 
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Thing is, Iâm not sceptical at all. Iâve little doubt of the benefits. I just think it started with a system which could have been better matched in the first place thus reducing the work needed. Then thereâs the fugly nature of the outcome.
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Agree with everything said here.
Sorry to the OP, I donât mean to be so negative towards you. If it works and you are happy, then great. 
Enjoy the music.
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It depends on where you set your sights on what level of replay you want vis settling for a system which âworksâ in your space â please trust me, Iâve had 3 variations of room lay-out, the last change (with treatment added) to address bass issues and to enable the system to better âdo its stuffâ.
Why should aesthetics matter if your priority is the quality of the replay? This is a hi-fi forum after all, not a proxy for Homes & Garden magazine. And the gains can be material.
Personally, I see it as @JonP has been good enough to let us know his journey, the level of improvement from this, so why naysay? I donât get it - sorry.
How does the phrase go âcomparison is the thief of joyâ?
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Nothing to apologise for but I was explicit in saying that the improvement side of things is something I donât disagree with at all. Iâve heard it for myself. Itâs nothing to the point though. I doubt youâll find anyone on this thread for whom the priority is not âthe quality of the replayâ. Aesthetics matter because we live in homes with people we love rather than laboratories (or @frenchrooster and their mortuary) or places which would give most a headache.
Again, youâll find no-one challenging the level of possible improvement. The point is that few saw a solid starting point and few liked the aesthetic outcome. I guess if the OP achieved anything here it would be to focus those of us who would be interested in this on just how difficult it is to do whilst keeping your living space looking like it has humans in it.
We also need to perhaps acknowledge that the thread title doesnât help. Itâs a close to hectoring question. Some of the responses here, perhaps including my own, strike me as a direct response to said tone. Was this sharing a journey or telling us that itâs beyond inexplicable if we donât do the same and sacrifice attractiveness for quality.
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Why have you not done this?!
Appears a popular answer is.
Iâm such a pussy, my wife wonât let me.
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Treatment on the roof ?
The title should be « God, What have I done ! «
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Sorry OP, had to laugh 
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So men canât look at a room and conclude that, for them, itâs wholly unacceptable?
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Maybe a better answer is that some of us have want to have a pleasant and cozy space to have a drink in and enjoy music in it. Others want to create the best audible space possible which is also fine. Some want both and do it in an ecstatically pleasant way and some go for the most budget friendly way. Not one way that leads to Rome.
I treated my room. Luckily me and the wife share the same aesthetics which helps, but equally I think it can look decent, particularly if you like modern. Would I do this in a cob cottage? Of course not. Modern detached? Why not.
We were aiming for a theatre style set up anyhow. So this all fit.
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I suppose some men could find it unacceptable. Looks fine to me.
It seems a bit bizarre. Are people really under the impression that Jon is suggesting they replicate his listening room to every last detail.
Iâm reading it, that he is simply putting forward the principle. Heâs done the same as Garyi, but not quite as tidy.
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If I had a dedicated listening room it would look more like Jonâs than Garyiâs even without any acoustic treatment,
Looking at Jonâs room, there is evidence that the room is actually used and lived in (Iâm good at spotting that kinds of thing, Iâve seen every episode of Columbo), unlike a lot of listening room photos you see on the forum. Although I suspect people are dumping all the unaesthetic cr*p in a corner and making sure it isnât in the photo.
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