Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Speaker calibration. Furniture, or no furniture?

When calibrating your home theater receiver did you guys perform the calibration with your furniture in the room or out of the room?

I calibrated my receiver with the furniture in the room as I thought it would produce the most accurate results but a co-worker calibrated his room completely empty and he swears by the results.

When calibrating my room I mounted my Radio Shack sound level meter on a camera tripod placed on the couch at listening level and then I manually adjusted the settings.

Thanks,
Zak