I started in this hobby in college 25-ish years ago. After going the HT route and building a dedicated room I wanted to get back to 2 channel listening.

My 2 channel system is very minimal, and also serves as the mains for a multichannel home theater in a dedicated room. All components were selected with speed, transparency and soundstage/imaging in mind. Those objectives have been accomplished big time. The addition of the Dali's has made this one of the most exciting systems I have ever heard. They are among the most tonally balanced, detailed and dynamic speakers I have ever heard - and they seem to be very happy with the signal being fed to them.

The 2 channel system is merely a a Cary CD Player with analog volume control, direct into the Spectron MII amplifier, driving the Dali speakers.

When I want to run the theater, I just swap the interconnects to the amp. I have a long balanced run from the amp to the equipment closet at the back of the room where my Anthem Statement D2 resides. As good as the Statement is, there is simply no comparison to the refinement I get from the dedicated 2 channel setup. That may be a function of the 25' run to the HT equipment rack, or it may be the quality of components, or both.

The room is 17x15x10.5, but with a tray ceiling at about 9 feet. There are significant acoustic treatments behind fabric covered walls (70% absorption on front wall, 30% absorption on side walls including 1st reflection points; diffusion behind listener; bass absorption in corners). The speakers (measured from tweeters) are about 49" off back wall, 36" off side wall and 7' or so apart. 9-10" from listener.