Looking for advice and suggestions


  • Hello fellow members. I’ve just put my system on here and would like to get some thoughts on a few things. How does the speaker placement look? I am considering ISO acoustic Gaia absorbers under the Kanta 3s. With this type of room do you think they would be worth it? I also bought a U-MIk-1 thinking it was a better mic than what came with the Marantz 8805 and was going to use it with the audyssey xt32 room correction. The box says best used with REW or Dirac. Would using REW be better than the audyssey xt32? Thanks for your advice. If you can’t see my system please advise on how to link it to this thread
ronboco

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Thank you everyone for your suggestions for the speakers. I will look at the options and am looking forward to hearing the improvement they will provide. 
@ghdprentice thank you. I am hoping to be able to add a 2 channel front end eventually. Either separates or a good integrated with HT bypass. Streaming is all we do so a better DAC and streamer will be on the wish list too 
@jond we did have a lot of reverberation that the panels took care of. Having no experience I was going off the room analysis provided by vicoustics. They recommended treating the mids and highs instead of the bass. I have been reading here that multiple subs helps eliminate bass modes. Is there a way to tell by listening if the room has too much treatment ? 
@georgehifi. It is a suspended floor and you can feel it moving pretty good. I was thinking I couldn’t get away with just the main speakers on footers.  Looks like some extra overtime is on order. Thanks for the subs tip as well. 
@jond for the most part we are happy with the sound but as with most of the members here I wonder how we can make it better. The Kantas are pretty revealing so we can tell a significant difference between a good and bad recording. It’s the white noise/static that shows up. I am wondering what steps to take to try to mitigate it as much as possible. 
Hello Erik. Thank you for the advice. I will stick with the Marantz mic. Do you think I should consider footers for the 4 subs ? They do scoot around a bit