Room Size

Way too small and square - 12.5 x 14 feet

System Overview

I am on the lower end of the price spectrum, and the room is definitely too small, but I have it tweaked to sound pretty good. I have toyed with going with small box speakers, but just don't know if I would be happy with boxes. Ohm 1000 Tall's have crossed my mind. Historically I have owned three pairs of Vandys (Models 1, 2CI, and 1C) and two pairs of Maggies (MMG and 1.7's) among various other experimentation's over the years.

Music Preferences

Just about everything but modern pop, rap or hiphop.

Room Description

This was the master bedroom in a modest house, so it is way to small to be a proper listening room, but you gotta deal with what you have. I am a constant speaker position tweaker, so I am also often tweaking with the room treatments as well. The big (to me) Maggie 1.7's can sound surprisingly good in this small room. It is definitely near field listening, but it works pretty well.

Acoustic Treatment

GIK TriTraps floor to ceiling behind speakers. GIK 242 with diffraction plates on each sidewall behind speakers. 3- GIK GridFusers at wall-ceiling juncture behind speakers. Wall behind the listening chair, which is about 3 1/2 feet from the wall, is well damped.

Listening Impressions

Magnepan transparency, bass is pretty well controlled. Speakers are just over five feet from wall, so I am sitting about 6 feet away from speakers. Currently set up in basically the "Limage" format. Moving speakers far into the room tamed an upper bass hump.

Media Storage

I have a 30 year CD collection ripped to .wav, these are stored on two different computers and three different backup drives (with at least one out of the house at all times). These are played via the Raspberry Pi 4/PiCorePlayer streamer via WiFi, never had a network glitch. I occasionally play a CD, but mostly play via the R-Pi 4 streamer.

Components

Digital Source

Raspberry Pi4 running PiCorePlayer, streaming Qobuz, Tidal, and 2500+ CD collection ripped to hard drive (wav format). Cambridge Audio 650C CD Player (very rarely used).

Signal Processors

RME ADI-2 FS DAC - (multi-function device - DAC, headphone amp, 6 band PEQ, preamp function)

Preamp

Currently using the RME ADI-2 as a preamp into the VTV purifi. I also have an old Adcom GFP-750 that still sounds great, but mostly use the RME.

Power Amp

VTV Purifi 1ET400A amp (with VTV (Sparkos) buffers, rotate between Sparkos SS2590 and Sonic Imagery 990Enh Ticha opamps)

Speakers

Magneplanar 1.7 most of the time, but rotated with Dennis Murphy Affordable Accuracy monitors, Vandersteen 1C and occasionally ADS L570/2

Subwoofer

Rhythmik F12 SE

Speaker Cable

BJC

Interconnects

BJC

Headphones

Grado SR225e - HiFi Man 400i, Schitt Magni 3+ amp, Schitt Modi 3E DAC, Schitt Loki

Racking

An Usher branded rack I bought as a floor demo, very heavy and solid.