WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

@calvinj

Re: your vaulted ceilings, you might find an "acoustic cloud" solution. You can get one from Auralex that is an absorber (best used in front of the MLP:

and the pic you see in my virtual system is a cloud made from Acoustic Lens diffusors (best hung behind the MLP), I took 4 of them, connected them together in a row, then hung them from the ceiling with a kit:

@calvinj

I hung the cloud below my PJ, this is a shot looking up through them from below, you can see my VOG speakers on the ceiling, the Auralex Geofusors above the MLP (backfilled with polyfill so the double as bass traps) and then some absorptive panels in front of them:

Windows are a chronic problem in rooms, I didn’t want absorptive blackout curtains so I took the acoustic lens, hooked two together, and hung it like a picture. Works great but not very pretty. The sacrifices we make for SQ:

Wife not allowing that in the condo. Lol. 

I just spliced together two different kinds of cables using those cone shaped twist wire splicers and the result is some of the best sounding cables I’ve ever heard. Part of what makes them sound so good is that they are now long enough to connect my speakers to to the amplifier when the speakers are in a better position in the room. I don't think anybody actually needs to come over and hear these cables. Try it yourself with your own cables!