Speaker of My House…!

Thank you all for the feedback…! Really helpful…!

I decided to try two different bookshelf/monitor solutions with two Rel Subs.

Sonus Faber Elector Amator 3 

Harbeth 3.0XD

I found everything used. Even the subs.

I will keep y’all posted.

@carlsbad Thanks for the encouraging words...! 

I was finally able to hear the New Amati's properly yesterday....

@audphile1  You’re right…! Heavy equipment will be the death of me. I’m still sore from boxing up my 125lbs Serafino’s…!

I was able to finally demo the new SF Amati’s with my DAC and amp and I was pretty happy. 
 

hopefully next week I get to hear the Joseph Audio speakers. Not mad about Focals or B&W…. I can always pop the casters on the DAW’S…

anyway - I’m having a ball…. Thanks for your suggestions…!

@rsf507 I live in Miami…. I have one dealer that is a 15 min walk from my house, very dangerous and a dealer about 90 mins away….

@grislybutter Oh gosh... I’d never want to come across bored or petulant. I’m tweaking constantly. I’m even moving the entire system room to room in order to squeeze out sonic nuances. I’m striving for a better sound experience always. I spend a fair amount of time listening to music in my home and visiting as many hifi shops as I have time for. I love comparing the sound of different systems. I spent almost two hours last week moving crap  around in my dealers room full of shiny objects trying to build what I can image might work in my home. I absoulutely love the sound of music and listening to the sound of music and just listening to music. All kinds. I studied music up until college and thought I was going to be a professional musician. My father taught my how to build stuff and at a very young age, he let me solder resistors to the circuit boards of his Dynakit Pre-Amp and Amp in 1967. I’ve worked so hard all my life and I’ve managed to save money and build a lovely life for myself. I am a very lucky man and always try to see the positive in every endeavor.

So... Bored...? Never...

Maybe…..

@james633 - Interesting... Thanks for these notes. I can't wait to get all this stuff and start tinkering around...! Hopefully it all should start trickling in late next week. Back in 1998, I had a pair of Miller & Kriesel (sp?) satellites and two massive subs.... I'm sure the technology has come such a long way. Will keep you posted....

@wyoboy I’ll try to find a dealer. Thank you…!

@dsnyder0cnn - I'm nuts as I move a pretty hefty system between two rooms in my house. I have an Instagram page that documents the whole journey:

(It' started with an integrated amp and a Blusound Node....and then, well.... Sh#t Happened....

https://www.instagram.com/joe_hifi/

I'm trying out smaller stand-mount speakers just to see what they sound like, but I bet I land on a pair of pricey floor standers.... Waiting on a pair of Harbeth Monitors and Sonus Faber Electa Amator 3's...

@dsnyder0cnn - I think it comes down to a system that I can tolerate in the smaller room and that excels in the larger room.

And it's actually three different rooms.... For me...to be honest... the journey is just as important and fun as the final outcome... 

I suppose that's frustrating and hard to advise.... Sorry bout that..!

 

I saw some of the photos. Looks like quite a project. One more question for clarification:

Is your plan to regularly move this system between these two rooms, or is this a more-or-less permanent move from the larger room to the smaller one? If the former, it looks like you may have enough equipment for two systems. Perhaps do that instead?

…what I'm getting at is that it's difficult to make a recommendation that will work equally well in two different rooms. If folks here could know where this system will ultimately land or at least spend most of its time, I imagine you'd get more helpful answers. In my experience, one must choose the right loudspeakers for the room to get the best results.

Using the Legacy Aeris as an example, my experience with it's smaller sibling (the Focus XD) taught me that you have to sit at least ten feet away for all six front-firing drivers to integrate seamlessly as a point-source. That is impractical in your smaller room.

@dsnyder0cnn I guess I want a system that sings in my larger room and sounds good in my office. It’s not easy to move all that junk to be honest, but I love it…! I’ve gotten really good at dialing the system in for each room….