Does anybody pay a pro to dial their system in?

@thomastrouble 

It definitely wouldn’t hurt to consult a professional acoustician. Small rooms are difficult but can be made to sound great. Jeff at hdacoustics is very good with small rooms. He was recommended to me by Duke LeJeune of audio kinesis. He designed my room and I am glad I used him. Good luck !

When I purchased new subwoofers from 3ma Audio in Houston, they setup my system. They started with removing my room treatment, room analysis, moving the listening position and speakers. The final steps were dialing in the subwoofers. 

Having owned and sold a pair of Fostex TH900's and also  having a high end system I would have to say trying to replicate the same sound of the Fostex in any pair of bookshelf speakers  nearly impossible ! The Fostex in my opinion are very bright sounding headphones .  I did love transparency and the bass but overall I could not keep them on very long, my ears and brain  were very fatigued after 30 minutes of listening ! 

Listening with headphones and listening to a pair of speakers is a totally different experience unless your going to wear those speakers on your head !

The right professional to set up a room and equipment is money well spent and I think a consultation before you go any further is my recommendation .

Your Benchmark DAC is hardly larger than the a typical remote. What this means is that it relies on op-amps rather than a robust conventional output stage. Not to once again declare that the emperor has no clothes but every time I see a Benchmark DAC in a major magazine get rave measurements assessments I cringe-the measurements of digital components including DAC's completely fail to address the sonic differences between components with robust analogue output stages and those that do not. There is more to it than that-the input stages, circuit design, isolation and grounding but the largest contributor to a great sounding DAC is the all-important output stage. 

Let me give you an easy example-old fashioned cd players. Those that sound best but don't necessarily measure best are often designed by conventional amp builders-the likes of Bryston and years ago, Classe. The reason is that with their amp building background they pay attention and devote resources to the output stage. 

One other quick point: how broken-in are your components, TT, and specifically the speakers? As an audio mentor of mine often said, you gotta put current through everything, at least a couple-hundred hours, before you start to hear what they really can do. I'm thinking especially of your relatively new speakers. 'Just thought I'd ask.