Your Energy speakers are excellent and the strongest link in your system - they are very revealing and dynamic. I would think that if you are using a powered sub and only sending the mids and highs to the main speakers that you have enough power. What source are you using? Assuming your source is high quality and this is a 2-channel system, get a great integrated amp and some decent cords and cables. If you are looking for a little more brilliance, try turning the sub down a bit to let a little more highs prevail. Your square room may be overdoing the bass and, as a result, causing the highs to sound diminished. If you haven't already, try moving your speakers around and adjusting the sub - perhaps that brilliance you desire is there but being masked.
where should i go from here?
i have a denon avr3802 with energy veritas speakers, tried hooking up a conrad johnson mf2100 to see if i could get more majic(cleaner and more overhead)the denon was my pre. it did not have the brilliance i was looking for. the room is basically 15by 15.using outdoor electrical wire as speaker wire. i hav a paradigm pw1200 powered sub,plenty of low end 1 to 3k price range thanks ahead of time for the help. do i need more power? better amp? are those speakers capible? bryon lundberg