Looking for advice and suggestions


  • Hello fellow members. I’ve just put my system on here and would like to get some thoughts on a few things. How does the speaker placement look? I am considering ISO acoustic Gaia absorbers under the Kanta 3s. With this type of room do you think they would be worth it? I also bought a U-MIk-1 thinking it was a better mic than what came with the Marantz 8805 and was going to use it with the audyssey xt32 room correction. The box says best used with REW or Dirac. Would using REW be better than the audyssey xt32? Thanks for your advice. If you can’t see my system please advise on how to link it to this thread
ronboco
Looks nice. You have put a lot of work into it. Personally I hate fiddling with placement. But it really matters. Anyway nice system..At some point when you are looking to upgrade something, consider the streamer. I kept thinking they didn’t matter... I was very wrong. I jumped mine from $500, $2,500 and only stopped at the top of the line Aurender.
@ghdprentice thank you. I am hoping to be able to add a 2 channel front end eventually. Either separates or a good integrated with HT bypass. Streaming is all we do so a better DAC and streamer will be on the wish list too 
@jond for the most part we are happy with the sound but as with most of the members here I wonder how we can make it better. The Kantas are pretty revealing so we can tell a significant difference between a good and bad recording. It’s the white noise/static that shows up. I am wondering what steps to take to try to mitigate it as much as possible. 
ronboco OP

Is that wooden floor a suspended one or wood over cement slab.?
If suspended, you don’t want ANY of your speakers coupled to it at all, you should try to de-couple all speakers as best you can, as the floor will act as a huge sound board if not solid wood on cement slab.
I’d also move the front subs away from that center cabinet as it could act as a sound board as well.
But you’ll have to go through the calibration process again.

Cheers George
@georgehifi. It is a suspended floor and you can feel it moving pretty good. I was thinking I couldn’t get away with just the main speakers on footers.  Looks like some extra overtime is on order. Thanks for the subs tip as well.