[BoomieMCT]

First off a big thanks to Anthony for helping me out here. I have a ECM-8000, a XENYX mixer and my wife's Mac, the latter being the weak link in the chain. Mac soundcards seem to chop off the top and bottom octaves with whatever they do - I've found Macs to be horrible for room EQ, music recording, pretty much anything. So much for being the ideal platform for artists. I'd say Anthony's setup listed above is basically ideal for this kind of work.

I'll respond to the comments about the panel absorbers. I like to experment with different materials to use for acoustic treatment. This has left me with a small surplus of acoustic panels, most of which end up in my underground theater room. I had the back wall of my HT mostly covered with treatment and the result was wasted space and a bit of over damping. The tests we ran showed that one of the panels simply wasn't doing anything beneficial so I removed it. This was one of my first tests made from RT9 fiberglass compressed in a wood / chicken wire frame. It's been a good trooper before and performed well before I got other materials to work with. All that said, I'm not too sad to see it go.

I'll make a final comment on the Denon AVR-2807's Audessy EQing. I love it. I think it does a great job, especially in difficult rooms like mine (concrete floor, can't fit treatments on the ceiling) and with systems that can't fit proper floorstanding speakers. Without sounding too much like a commercial I think other auto EQ systems I've heard sound good but Audesssy beats them all. There are two things I'll point out though. The first is that if you do not do some EQing on your sub to fix peaks all auto-EQs I've seen will set your sub too low. Make sure you fix room modes first! The second thing is that I do not fully understand how to setup subs on RoomEQ for systems that have different crossover points for each speaker (as Audessey does). RoomEQ wants you to fit the EQ to a specific crossover point and slope - something that might not be constant in my system.