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I have a dedicated music room in our basement. It has been extensively treated acoustically with bass traps and diffusors in all the right places. This is the best listening room I've ever had.  I listen 90+% of the time to classical music. This system does a great job of reproducing acoustic instruments. Violin, cello and piano timbres are rendered very realistically. System dynamics are outstanding. Recently added the Starkrimson class D monoblocks which are undergoing extensive listening trials.
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    • Marantz SA-11S2
    Stereo SACD/CD player
    • Cary SLP-05
    Fully Balanced tubed preamp
    • Manley Labs Snapper
    Monoblock power amps
    • Vandersteen Quatro Wood CT
    Full range, integrated powered sub, time aligned, phase coherent design
    • Cardas Cross
    Balanced versions
    • Cardas Golden Cross Biwire
    Excellent complement for this system.
    • Monster HTS-5100
    Power conditioner
    • Mytek Brooklyn DAC+
    DAC
    • Orchard Audio Starkrimson Monoblocks
    150W GaN class D monoblocks

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Mark,
Very nicely setup small room and your equipment seems to be carefully selected after lot of consideration.
we have moved to a house and I will have a dedicated room just like yours, except that the ceiling is 9 foot. Do you have any room treatments in place? How do you tame the bass? What about reflections from walls on your back? I am trying to get as much info as possible from fellow audiogoners so that I can "try and optimize" my room acoustics.

Thanks,

milpai