What one change to your room, system, or setup made the biggest improvement?

I have a pair of Maggie planers which were placed in the typical 1/3 room plan. I moved them within 6 feet of my listening position and about 5 feet apart. The improvement in dynamics, especially bass definition and slam, were significant!

I have a pair of Maggie planers which were placed in the typical 1/3 room plan. I moved them within 6 feet of my listening position and about 5 feet apart. The improvement in dynamics, especially bass definition and slam, were significant!

@jjss49 On your list – which I like – you put both a speaker acquisition and subs on #3.

If you revised your list and listed speaker choice, speaker positioning, and subs as separate line items, where would they fall in your hierarchy? 

For me I think that the most important thing has been synergy between components of my system. The electronics are all McIntosh, and speakers in the 5.2 system are all Legacy Audio. The Mac and Legacy stuff go great together. 

Where to start? On the analog side, when I moved to a line stage preamp, I had to get a phone stage.  Incredible improvement.  On the digital side, there are a couple of things that really moved the needle.  The first was a fiber media conversion on the ethernet running into my streamer, best bang for the buck.  Getting a power conditioner and upgrading my power cords were also massive leaps forward.  Aiming for room treatments this summer.