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Well, I almost sold my stereo,everything. No component or power conditioner no matter how good would sound average in my room. I was somewhat depressed to tell the truth. A fair amount of money and the sound stunk,at least to me. Why did a cheaper stereo,much cheaper sound great at the shop? Acoustical treatments in the listening rooms! They are much more important than I thought. My salesmen(good salon) were extremely helpful and by my diagram of our room he directed me to a number of resources to help. As an experiment I looked at treated rooms and,it sounds bad and looks even worse,I used down comforters in the corners and used blankets behind the stereo and on the sides of the room. I treated the living room with quasi ceiling diffusers(stole the idea from some concert halls). I live in a modular home so I tried to make a cheap plynthe for each speaker. My floor is elevated from the ground, no concrete floors. I made a 2'X 3' by 1" thick MDF sandwich with sorbathane sheets in between,R/C hobby shops carry it cheap. Took me about 2 hours. The living room now resembles a really big indoor tent or padded room, I mean this IS the Audio Asylum! The noise floor went WAY down. The bass was deep and strong,the upper bass suckout(hope that's the term) is eliminated and was there in spades and details popped out, and I'm sure were still way off but what a huge improvement I've never heard my Cd's right,ever!! Yeah, pretty ghetto looking but I wanted to know if this was really the room or too many years playing viola in different orchestras. Now my wife and I are going to make most of the panels and corner bass trapps and maybe a little professional help,again the asylum bit.LOL! I never understood you need to "buy" room treatment along with all the equipment. I wish I had known that sooner but thank goodness we figured it out. Now my stereo sounds magical. Treat your rooms! Most inmates here likely know this already but I'm still learning.Jim P
Sorry as too the length
Musical Fidelity X-RAYv8 CDP and triple X power supply
Aragon 24K pre-amp with Mondial Designs power supply
Rotel power conditioner
Rotel RB-1080 200WPC
Paradigm Studio 100 V.4
Audioquest Rocket 44 single biwire speaker cable
Audioquest Diamondback interconnects
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