I'm a life-long active musician - big band swing trumpet player:
http://hornsaplenty.org/
My wife is a professional classical violinist
http://temescalquartet.com/
We've both acoustic musicians and so we mostly listen to acoustic music and have a preference for real instruments to sound like themselves. If I were you, I'd use acoustic instruments as a reference.
What finally brought our system fully together was adding in a miniDSP DDRC24 active crossover and DSP EQ. After measuring the room and impulse response with the included DIRAC software, I set the target response to the Harman EQ curve. That brought it all together and gave the system that final bit of true naturalness. It took just the right amount of edge off the violin upper register and evened out the low end.
I don't know any of your gear, but you should expect a Best Buy demo system to be tweaked in such a way that it makes you go "Wow" without actually being a natural presentation. Remember that stores like Best Buy sell the sizzle, not the steak.
http://hornsaplenty.org/
My wife is a professional classical violinist
http://temescalquartet.com/
We've both acoustic musicians and so we mostly listen to acoustic music and have a preference for real instruments to sound like themselves. If I were you, I'd use acoustic instruments as a reference.
What finally brought our system fully together was adding in a miniDSP DDRC24 active crossover and DSP EQ. After measuring the room and impulse response with the included DIRAC software, I set the target response to the Harman EQ curve. That brought it all together and gave the system that final bit of true naturalness. It took just the right amount of edge off the violin upper register and evened out the low end.
I don't know any of your gear, but you should expect a Best Buy demo system to be tweaked in such a way that it makes you go "Wow" without actually being a natural presentation. Remember that stores like Best Buy sell the sizzle, not the steak.