Back to Solid State(No More!) I missed the musicality, 3 dimensional sound stage and the "in the room realism" of my VAC tube electronics and sold all my solid state equipment and returned to the magic of Kevin Hayes at VAC and Kevin Malgrem at Evolution Acoustics. I am listening to music again. Winning the EAR DAC in a raffle allowed me to add the magic of tubes to my digital front end. The sleeper component in my system is the Snake River Audio cabling; it offers the uncanny ability to provide all the inner detail and nuance we want in a musical way without being analytical. Snake River Audio is one to consider.
Wow couple of fantastic upgrades! I know the drill, sometimes it's hard to sneak something in without the wife seeing it:)
I bet your system sounds amazing!
On my Maxx's, I moved my sound treatments up. Not sure if you pic is still accurate, but might be worth trying your behind the speaker treatments up 2 feet or so. Really helped clean up the soundstage for me, surprisingly nice improvement.
