Yeah, I'm in opposite situation. Mine is in a regular living room. Certainly can't afford a house with a dedicated theater. I've got some unobtrusive panels but the worst reflection point is against a giant glass window. So instead of +$500k for a bigger house, it's $12k for a trinnov. Don't even need a professional. The trinnov has a 4-mic array that you plug in to the back and place it where your head is going to be. It plays sounds from all the speakers; measures frequency response of every speaker; measures all reflection paths; absorption. The four mics form a tetrahedron, so it also measures speaker position in 3D. Then when you're listing to anything it just adjusts for all that. It's just physics at this point. I have 30 year old Meridian speakers: each speaker has a DSP, 2 DACs and three 75-watt amps; one amp per driver. Can't afford new ones: the modern equivalent are $12k per pair. The trinnov is the cheapest solution that allows HDCP content in and plain (unencrypted) SPDIF out. So my path is digital right up to the 2 DACs in each speaker, and everything analog was designed as a unit. The $12k trinnov is the one that ditches the analog stage entirely - so you don't have to pay for the gold-plated XLR sockets =) Instead, it's 2x AES/EBU DB25. You get SFP cages for network! Ok, maybe the SFP cages are snake oil =)