Thanks for getting me on the straight and narrow Bruce.
I was going to track down a room mode calculator and figure it out. I'll go download the one in the downloads section later and play with it. I get the basics..kinda. My room is about 15 wide by about 24 long with 8 foot ceilings. I have a few openings (big doorways) and not sure how they play in. So it might not be room mode, based on your guess dimension. This is not the theater's final resting place, so I'll probably just get it as good as I can for now. Need to finish a kitchen floor and then I'll start on a basement theater room from the ground up.
I had heard the comments about dynamic range but it just wasn't clicking. Your comment made it go CLICK. I get it now...if boosting frequencies doesn't show any result on the graphs...then it's a room problem...so your amp is working harder and not providing any more perceived volume. I get it.
So I'll bost away as long as I'm getting positive results in the graph.
I'm gonna move stuff around this weekend and see if I can get a less drastic curve (and just learn more about REW).
My BFD will be here late next week, so I'll just have to work in theory until then.
Did you see my question about impulse response? I'm still not able to figure that out.
Scott