My listening space. Comments and constructive suggestions welcome
It's in the basement and it doubles as the television room but the wife lets me sort of have my way down here.
The rig won't be changing much for awhile, student loan payments are eating up all of my stereo money I've tried to squeeze every last bit out of performance that I can from what I have. You'll see various tweaks in my system,
- vibrapods under the amp, dac, phone pre and power conditioner
- speakers spiked to 1/2 marble tile because the carpet was so damn thick
- rack about 12" behind speakers, TV about 15" back
- Quick and Dirty bass traps in the corners next to the listening position
Some real diy bass traps are on my "to do" list this summer, as well as a couple more acoustic panels behind the couch. Unfortunately there's no room to pull the couch off of the back wall
All in all I enjoy the system, its reasonably well balanced, decent sound stage, imaging is fairly good as well.
I'm right on 10' back from the speaker plane, tweeter to tweeter they are 8.5'
They're about 3' from the back wall and several more from any sidewalls. I've tweaked the positioning quite a bit and right now they are as wide as they can go with a slight toe-in for focus.
System edited: Moved into a new place, pictures to follow. Upgraded my cartridge. Next steps are wall treatments and isolation for the phono pre, cdp and dax
My listening space is a similar in size to your place. You might want to check out the Tetra 205's. They integrate better in my small space than anything I have ever heard.
I've played with my speaker/sub placement a bit and am getting a nice big soundstage with much better imaging. I moved the sub to dead center for starters. I moved the speakers a touch wider and all but eliminated the toe-in.
Nice system, there is magic in tubes to be sure. Getting back into lp's is fun. I too just picked up a cambrigde phono amp and took out my old turntable which I have not played in ten years. It is close to 29 years old. The sound, pretty darn good. Have fun with your very nice components. Glen
I wouldn't say this isn't hih end. Compared to what most people use to listen to music in the home this is orders of magnitude better. Keep on enjoying!
High end is in the eye of the beholder! I'm starting to realize that even though some people feel it is necessary to get the most expensive components because they are bullet proof and have gold-plated everything, you don't need that for excellent sound. If your system does it for you, then you're there!
Great job on the system, looks like a lot of fun to listen to.
