Center placed equipment stands


Will I ever learn?  Just cut down the height of my Quadraspire Reference X equipment stand placed between the floor standers and again experienced better imaging.  Each time I do this it improves the imaging and overall sound.  Hope this helps others.
celtic66
@davekayc Thanks for the time to write up that suggestion.  Your suggestion was something I never contemplated. I will have to let it percolate in the brain. Do you have any opinion of a bookshelf with books as a sound absorber in-between the speakers?

One thing that I am benefiting from today with this configuration is the ability to have my room door open, it makes my room sound bigger.  My room today sounds really good with the KEF LS50's but I want to get better gear in there.

The gear I have in this room will leave very soon and the incoming gear will likely be the much bigger Yamaha NS5000 "bookshelf" + Lyngdorf 3400 (with Room Perfect) + Luxman m900u amp. I will only use the preamp section of the Lyngdorf integrated. I am also considering the Anthem STR preamp with ARC3. So DSP is going to be part of this new system. I was considering putting the electronics, except the amp inside the closet.

This system will hopefully be my second system, with a bigger room available in a year or 2 for the placement of a non-DSP based system or I may even move this Yamaha based system to the future bigger room and ditch the DSP. 
yyzsantabarbara...

Try a ten-pack of SR’s HFT's placed around the room as directed. I think you will be pleased with the results.

Frank
My rack has been behind and off to the side of my speakers since I can remember......

Had a few different configurations with a large power amp on the floor and longer balanced ic.
But for last year or more have had an integrated at bottom of the rack and running 14ft speaker cables and loving every minute of it!
Yyzsantabarbara

what do you normally do for music ? My idea was to simplify your system while adding more than enough impact. Simply having a desktop dac such as the aune x1 and powered speakers would be plenty versatile and most assuredly blow the doors off your current set up . I’m sure it could be done for around  5 or 6 benjamins .