I moved part way across the country earlier this year, few changes to the basic system components, but:
1. room- longer, deeper room, with slightly higher ceilings;
2. new power subsystem based on a 10kVa Controlled Power isolation transformer
3. I installed a big Minus K under the turntable- a heavy Kuzma XL with HRS platform to isolate the table
4. I added new subwoofers- a matched pair of 15" Rythmik sealed boxes with a small DSP controller.
I did not do this incrementally, so the changes in the aggregate were significant though for about a month, waiting for the Controlled Power unit to arrive and get installed, I played the system without it-- the power here, even without the isolation transformer is better than it was in the New York metro area, probably due to newer infrastructure. Density is actually higher where I am now, in central Austin, compared to the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, (i.e., not in Manhattan).
In the aggregate, the system is quieter, has more dynamics and plays louder (without sounding loud). Part of that is the room, which is probably better, sonically, than my last room.
1. room- longer, deeper room, with slightly higher ceilings;
2. new power subsystem based on a 10kVa Controlled Power isolation transformer
3. I installed a big Minus K under the turntable- a heavy Kuzma XL with HRS platform to isolate the table
4. I added new subwoofers- a matched pair of 15" Rythmik sealed boxes with a small DSP controller.
I did not do this incrementally, so the changes in the aggregate were significant though for about a month, waiting for the Controlled Power unit to arrive and get installed, I played the system without it-- the power here, even without the isolation transformer is better than it was in the New York metro area, probably due to newer infrastructure. Density is actually higher where I am now, in central Austin, compared to the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, (i.e., not in Manhattan).
In the aggregate, the system is quieter, has more dynamics and plays louder (without sounding loud). Part of that is the room, which is probably better, sonically, than my last room.