I'm basically a classic rocker, but I listen to a lot of jazz. I also like Indian music, like Ravi Shankar and Shakti. Now that I have moved to a house and have a dedicated music room (again), I was able to separate my music and HT systems (again). Although my music room is small, and I have no treatments for it, the sound of the music system is, to my ears, superb. Although I still have my 800+ LP's and a VPI record cleaner, I exclusively play music streamed from an Upscale Audio RS9 dedicated music server through the MSB to the ARC REF6 to the Pass Labs X250.8.
After feeling that the bass was not sufficient in my small listening room with my stand-mounted Focal Diablo Utopia's, I decided to get a REL Strata III on here, and after hooking it up, I had all of the bass that I was missing in this room. The addition of the REL subwoofer just brought the system up to a whole new level of performance. Then I replaced the Focal's and Joseph Audio Pulsars that I also had with the Wilson Audio Sabrina X's. They are fantastic speakers and perfect for my size music room. After getting the Sabrina X, I redid the cabling in the system and replaced the Strata with a s/510, which works great. I pronounce myself "extremely pleased!" :) I am now embarking on my last frontier — going to put room treatments in now to maximize the sound as much as I can!
My system now has that “you are there” feeling when I listen to music and although it is resolving, and good recordings sound amazing, even my poorly recorded stuff, such as my Led Zeppelin bootlegs, sound better, not worse. After putting in Shunyata power cables for all of my equipment, Shunyata Sigma IC’s, Shunyata Sigma v1 speaker cables, and now the magnificent Shunyata Everest 8000 with a Shunyata Sigma XC power cable, my system is better than anything that I have owned, and as close to my dream system as I have ever heard!