Words From the Wise

Enjoy lots of live music. Get the response of your ears tested.
What I thought was a channel balance issue was actually a dip in the response of my left ear. By the look of your set up I say get some pro advice on acoustically treating your room. You may find Bass response in your listening room less peaky and more accurate. Done right everything will improve and unlike some equipment will stay that way permanently. Your set up seems pretty good as it is. My final advice is don't catch upgradiola virus, it's usually terminal and you will have heaps more moola to blow on CD's. Lastly enjoy the music through your system often. Cheers thermo

Whatever you purchase to listen to or through it should be what you consider the best you can afford. You should sit and listen for as along as you have to, make the right decision for youself and not what someone else thinks you should get because it sound best to them.
This go's for equipment & software. You must be happy and only you have to live with it.
IMHO Enjoy

Too funny!! I just dumped $3.5K into JPS speaker cable and my wife knows I got the cable but has not, to date, asked me how much I paid for it. And she outearns me by a ration of almost 5 to 1! God I love that woman.

But I'll still sneak CDs into the house and pray the mail is still in the box when I get home. ;-)

heres one I've not seen but has proven its value to me. Take up a musical instrument. I've been learning to play guitar (6 string electric) and i feel that I have a very good idea about what the instrument should sound like and little aspects of its sound. helps lots in determining how accurate speakers, or perhaps I should say the system, is. I guess it's dumb to think about learning to play an instrument for this reason but even messing around with instruments will give you the idea.

Over time I have continued to upgrade but I just keep forgetting to sell off the old stuff...audio pack rat yes. Anyway I now swap out speakers, amps, cables etc you know mix and match. I have learned so much more from this process than anything else, god I love this addiction, or affliction or whatever. After reading so many of the responses in this forum, I noticed repeated comments to trust your ears...seems like some of the best advice I've read.