Does it SOUND the same? (Room impacts on Hifi)

A SOUND Comparison: How Your Room Impacts HiFi

If you are a hifi enthusiast (audiophile), you may have heard the term, your room is the most crucial part of your system.
I believed this was true, but I have never tried my system in another room. So was my room enabling or limiting my system? Time to find out.
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Gear seen In this video.
Lii-song drivers: https://www.lii-song.ca
Melody audio pre-amp https://www.melodyhifi.com.au
Galion audio TS120: https://www.galion-audio.com
Puritan Psm156 power conditioner
Musical Paradise https://www.musicalparadise.ca
Welborne Labs 300b monoblocks
Crown xls 1002 https://www.crownaudio.com/en/products/xls-1002
Super rectifier http://www.thebestamp.com/Accessories/Super_Rectifiers.php
Linlai E series 211 tubes https://linlaiglobal.com


In the bigger untreated room, this was better:

Size of the soundstage
Size of the image
Spacing between items in the sound stage was better
Sound felt large

What was worse then in my room:
The depth in the soundstage
The micro details
The focus in the stereo image

why?

the advantages:
- providing more space for the speakers to breath allowed for a wider and taller sound stage with larger instruments.

disadvantages:
- Having no treatment on reflections points however was most likely creating some standing waves which made the resolution suffer and give a sense of softer focus in the stereo image and making the sound stage depth feel a bit shallower.
- The micro details felt like they lost a little bit, maybe 5%.

Compromises:
- By toe in the speakers to our ears, this helps reduce the issues from reflections points as the speakers over-power those reflections, but it comes at the cost losing a bit of that extra size of sound stage.

After tuning the speakers positioning to the room layout a bit more, and adding more toe in, the sweet spot provided the following:
- Sound stage width increase over my room by about 30%
- Sound stage depth decreased by about 50%
- Size of images increased by about 20%
- Spacing between instruments was improved by a noticeable amount.
- Sense of sound pressure was a bit less by about 5-10% (did have as much of a "headphone" sense of pressure level)

Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
1:15 The room has the biggest impact?
1:36 My hifi Rig
3:40 Let's move all this shit
4:11 Speaker setup
4:54 Initial Listening reactions
6:15 A couple hours into it
6:37 Phil chimes in
7:21 Room differences
8:38 Now I know what my room needs
10:11 Do you know what your room is doing to your sound?