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My stereo isn't doing it for me. Need advice

I have been trying to get a great sounding room for a while now and it still doesn't sound great or even good. I have a Prinaluna Dialogue 5 power amp and a Primaluna Prologue preamp. All with stock tubes so far. A Marantz c6005 CD player. Morrow mc3 interconnects and Kimber 8tc speaker cable. My speakers are Dynaudio x12's which sound the best in my room. I also have Dynaudio x32 speakers and a pair of KEF LS50 speakers. Also a REL T-5 subwoofer. My room is my office and is 9 x 11 with 8 Foot ceilings. Some acoustic stuff sounds great but the louder stuff not so much. I find I listen to music that sounds good rather than music I want to hear. Any suggestions on what I can change. I also bought a Class D Audio 200 watt per channel amplifier that makes everything sound even worse.
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sebrof
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Since music sounds good at lower volume and louder sounds worse, I think it's your room.
Room treatments and setup may help.

Some people including myself (previous room) have had success setting the system up diagonally. IOW the rack between the speakers is in a corner, and behind you is the opposite corner.
Steve Deckert has a paper on it. I had similar issues, read the paper, set up diagonally and kept it that way until I moved into another room.

http://www.decware.com/paper14.htm
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sebrof
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The preponderance of advice from the forum has been to address that room. You decide to change your cdp or speakers, WTF?
WTF indeed.
At least he's not changing out cables ;)
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