Realism in instruments how to achieve it?

@sheri2022 

Floorstanders will definitely work in your space if you take care of the room. Of you want the best performance you can get in your space but aren’t sure how consult an acoustician. Jeff at HDacoustics is very good with rooms your size and can design what would work best. He designed my room and it sounds fantastic ! Good luck! 

Everything in the system contributes to what you are talking about. My advice would be to not upgrade your system for a while. Get used to what you have. It easy to get caught up in all the big changes that came with your recent upgrades. Once the newness wears off, you'll start to evaluate your system in a more realistic way. For your next upgrade, you should have some clearly defined improvements that you're looking to achieve. Otherwise, its just gambling. 

some of it is geometry and physics at the speaker level. 

consider the shape of a horn and how it oushes sound. perhaps that sound is best replicated by a horn speaker. electric guitars make sound thru amps pushing paper cones back n forth, so maybe paper cones moving back and forth are best for electric guitar. 

my brother has some magnepans, which replicate acoustic instruments like double bass, acoustic guiltar and others with such texture and realism its astonishing at times. well,  think its a bunch of wires virbating and those vibrations resonating, so that makes sense to me. 

@zlone I'm using a Roon/HQPlayer on mac mini as my server, your observation is correct, I have been upgrading the equipment and feel maybe upgrading the speakers in the future is the correct path. DAC will upgrade hopefully next few months.

I just placed an order yesterday for SVS 3000 Micro sub to upgrade the Elac1010 that was a long overdue upgrade and return policy is great so no worries if it doesn't work.

@einsteindisguised Thanks for the kind words! I consider the BAT one of the best purchases I ever made, I didn’t also get why people use xlr but now I want to use it on every equipment. I tube rolled the JJ that came with it to NOS soviet 6N23P and 6V6 to 6P6s and I got why tube rolling is a thing it’s a knob tweak that you can use to tailor the sound to your liking. Now, regarding the tube power amp this is the first thing I considered and almost got a Cary Audio CAD 808 for great pricing but knew it was a bad decision at the moment as my room is small and even though the preamp doesn’t emit a ton of heat I hear music over 8-10 hours a day. In the future hopefully first thing to get in a bigger room a SET amp, I’m sold on all tube system frankly. I went for a subwoofer upgrade at the moment SVS 3000 Micro, hopefull it delivers.