I am a 17 year old high school student working on a limited budget trying to get the best sound for the best money. I have the luxury of a dedicated room but it is on the small side (10x14 with the speakers on the short wall). Room treatments are ultra-low budget with rugs on the front and back wall that got rid of some nasty flutter reflections. I am always experimenting with new speaker placements so any suggestions would be appreciated. This system sounds great and I will probably be stuck with it till a few years after I get out of college so any upgrades would have to be made sooner rather than later. The system sounds great but I am always looking for that extra little edge. Ha I guess we all are. Happy Listening!!
You're off to a much better start than I was when I was 17. I had just built my first powered sub back then after replacing the drivers in some old Fried Model Q speakers. After that, when I was 18, I built my first set of full-range mains (two-way MTMs with drivers from old Def tech BP8). This hobby can cost a lot, but remember that it's all about your enjoyment of the music, and as long as you're always looking at what somebody else has, or what the new state of the art might be, that will come between you and your ability to enjoy the system you've assembled, which is all stuff that worked very well for people in the past, so make an effort to not get swept away in the materialism of the hi-fi world. Today, I use a fifteen year old Mark Levinson No. 38 preamp and a seventeen year old Hafler 9270 amp to drive my DIY loudspeaker creations (both of which I acquired used, and the No. 38 required a lot of exterior restoration), and both pieces still work very well, so there's nothing at all wrong with building a system around oldies but goodies.
