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Vandersteen fans..need your input (TREO CT)

Hey Guys, I love my TREO CTs, but I feel like they don’t really start to shine until I crank up the volume to 85dBs or higher. I feel like the details are missing at lower volumes. I know I have a lot of acoustic issues in my space, but generally speaking, at what volumes do you guys listen to your system. Just to give you an idea of my system, I’m using an Ayre AX-5/20 integrated, Aurender N100H streamer, Denafrips Terminator DAC (also an Ayre Codex DAC), AQ Earth XLR cables and AQ GO4 double run bi-wire speaker cables. Any of you guys do low volume listening...like the when your family is a sleep. Any general tips to improve the low volume listening experience? I suspect I would benefit the most getting room treatments but it’s not an option for me at the moment sharing the living room.  Thanks in advance.
Also, check out this link on youtube, it’s rare to see TREO CTs in videos on the web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKxBalxq1c
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You might think about this. I have 2ce Sig II and I made a change (relunctantly) that enabled them to sound better at low volume. I got a hearing test. Yes many people suffer from hearing loss and do not know it. Now that I have hearing aids, I can hear a narrow higher freq band and enjoy low level
listening much moreso. Don’t laugh, many people in this hobby have hearing loss.... I lost some hearing from Military service with Air Defense artillery, Field Artillery and Spec Ops units but keep in mind the more you crank up volume on your stereo, the greater potential for hearing damage.
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If you have a somewhat dedicated audio room, I think the ideas of dweller and tomic601 are great. Clapping hands can lead to fixing echos and creating the dead room you want. If you are patient and very observant sitting very quiet in your room without any music turned on you can identify noise, particularly background noise...much of which is low level noise. Compressors (as mentioned),  traffic tires going down the road, wind coming across trees. If you have tinnitus, you will hear that. All this study can help with building the sound upward. Study how much noise you have; how do sounds behave in your room (reflect and bounce?) do external sounds compete with your stereo sound for your brain’s attention? If you want to hear low level detail, you have to create the way and environment for it to happen, no?
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