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Am I done yet? LOL

Things are sounding pretty good at the moment. The Dynaudio Contour 30i speakers are the latest addition and are working better in this room than the Maggie 3.7i speakers were. 

Usually, when I ask the wife to come listen, she'll sit for a song, maybe 2, then make a "that's nice" type a comment and leave. With the Dynaudio speakers, she stayed, and played song after song. She listened for over and hour and said she really really liked these speakers. Great to know the wife was pleased.  laugh

But the audiophile in me feels like there is more to be had. The amp & pre-amp are on my radar as the possible candidates for improvement. Any opinions on where to head next? (There's always a "next" isn't there?)

traudio
sudnh
131 posts
 

You don’t list what your electronics are but there is always better. 
 

hope you have already explored cables  

traudio OP
184 posts
 

@sudnh ?
Yes I did, it's all listed in my system.
 

@kennyc Yes, audio is not unique. Many hobbies are like this.

goodlistening64
399 posts
 

@traudio 

I understand you did your homework, but the dimensions of your room are not close to the Cardas Golden Ratio. 26’ x 13 x 7 is a real problem and perhaps not even solvable regardless of how much money you throw into your room. Cardas Ratio would be 18 x 13 or thereabouts. 

What I am saying is that if you have a carpenter put up a wall at around the 18’ on the long side of your room (cutting out 8 feet of length), then you would have a much more tolerable room that will not have bass nodes that are not going to go away and as you are learning, would require another subwoofer to even have a chance of resolving the issue. My point is that a length shortening wall would be much less expensive and provide immediate results with respects to sound.

I am throwing out ideas as bimmerlover has done and would agree with him that smaller subwoofers would be easier to implement regardless of the room size and allow for easier manueverability. We are all getting up in age and you certainly have chosen "heavies" to deal with going forward. 

Whatever you decide, and you seem to be having fun, but if you jettison any of your equipment (and are on the east coast) let me know! I would be happy to come and pay a fair price for what you don’t want and help you move stuff around. Heck, I have gear (and portable dampening boxes) that would help you understand where your node issues exist. Trying to help!

Enjoy the music!

traudio OP
184 posts
 

@goodlistening64 LOL The golden ratio is NOT a fixed size. Key word here is ratio. 
https://www.acousticsfirst.com/dev/rrc.htm
You are absolutely out of your mind if you think I'll have another wall put up to make my room smaller!
That being said, the length of the room is a bit of a variable as the entry to the stairs is a little deeper and contributes to the modes. 

Funny how this began as a possible change in electronics was the question. 

chrisoshea
576 posts
 

Yes you are done. Now buy some more records. And have you wife make a list of records she wants to hear on the system. TFF

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