Good luck with placement challenge, and that is some great gear…..would love to own those speakers. I do suspect at some point you’ll find the need to upgrade your DAC.
The Ares is a capable DAC, but not quite up to the rest of your gear.
ATC SCM19 V2 Recommendations.
I recently purchased a pair of ATC SCM19 speakers and I just wanted to pick some brains.
I am not interested in advice on different speakers or very expensive options.
I am recently retired, on a fixed income and buy mostly used.
What I would like to get is some options for speaker cables, speaker stands, speaker placement and synergy with my current components.
My room is 12' x 18' x 9' and the speakers need to be placed on the 18' wall.
My current setup includes the following:
Musical Fidelity M6si integrated (220 w @ 8 ohms)
Tellurium Black speaker cables
Lumin D1 Streamer
Denafrips Ares II DAC
Distributed bass array with (2) Rel T5, (1) Rel T7i and (1) SVS SB2000 subs