This is my current reference system. It's finally set up again. The room is quite good. It's treated with some absorption panels RPG, Hemifusors and Skylines and variscreens. There are broadband helmhotz resonators hidden in the front of the room. Ceiling diffusion using RPG Hemifusors are in. Ceiling is painted black and walls in a medium grey.
We do not have a store front in Iowa City. Our dealers do that. However, if you happen to be in the area, give me a call--we can show you our operations here.
Thanks for the compliments. I like the fish tank too. I've recently gotten into corals which is really fun. However, I have to turn off the pumps for critical listening sessions.
I don't really know what other drivers to recommend. I researched these with speaker manufacturers and then discussed it with the folks at Martin Logan.
At the time you could get the Focal Audiom drivers from several sources. Focal has sense gotten out of that business and sells only to speaker manufacturers with a history with them.
I'm glad I didn't post the pictures of the other rack. It has all the Mosaic collections, all UHQR, some really incredible original classical box sets, and some japanese jazz import box sets. Fortunately, Albert doesn't dig any of that, so I'll send him the scratched up early 70s rock albums that were abused in college. Albert--just send me your UPS account number--and don't question them when you get a whole bunch of international shipments on your bill.