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Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room

Newbie here.  Wife and I are looking to turn our Great Room into a listening room.  It’s roughly 21’X’19 and has a cathedral ceiling that is 11’ tall at the wall and 20’ tall at the apex.  Spoke to a good hifi dealer in the area who made the following recommendations/proposal and I’m curious if this group may have any input for getting maximum bang for my buck.  Basically, with a budget around 35k (or thereabouts) would you buy something similar or are there any components you’d add or swap out?

Paradigm Persona 3F

McIntosh MA8950

Pro-Ject Xtension 9 w/ Ortofon Black Cartridge 

Sony ES DSD Music Server (this one concerns me a touch in that it appears to be an 8 yr old product line).

Thanks so much in advance for your collective expertise.  My wife isn’t going to let me drop money into this for another 15 years so I need to get it right the first time. 

If it matters, our musical taste is quite varied: classical, jazz, classic rock, alternative, hip hop.  My mother complained in my youth that if i had 10 bucks I would just buy a CD with it.  She is still right. 

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List of speakers I’ve had in my listening room for at least 6 months. Revel salon 1, salon 2, usher be20dmd, persona 7f, meridian dsp 8000se, Kef blade, vienna acoustics strauss and kef r107/2&r105/3. 
 

for a bright room I would recommend the usher, vienna acoustics and mostly meridian dsp8k. The salon2 and kef blade will be better with carpet and space, even more so for the persona’s. 
 

I found the persona’s to be the most amplifier sensitive, the salon 2 the most power hungry and the blades are my current passive favorite. Used prices on meridian make them a great bargain but service is limited to a single shop in Georgia. Legacy aeris look the goods for a large room.

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