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Book Shelf Speaker advice - Formerly Book Shelf Dilemma
The new LSA Signature 50 may be right up your alley.  There’s a link for member Terry’s glowing review in Stereo Times in the ad page below, and they can be had with stands for $800.  Alternatively you could just buy the speakers for $600 and the ... 
Open Baffle Experience
The best sound I’ve ever heard to date was the Nola Grand Reference open-back dynamic towers driven by top ARC electronics. You can say whatever you want about OB designs, but that sound will live with me forever, and if it’s wrong I don’t wanna b... 
Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord.
I’d recommend the AZ Krakatoa PC, and this one seems like a great value that you can probably resell at little/no loss if it doesn’t work for you. Reason I recommend it is because I have a full loom of AZ cables and their level of detailed yet nat... 
Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord.
Sooo, what improvements and sound characteristics are you looking for?. That’s critical information.   
Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord.
What sound characteristics/improvements are you looking for and what are you using now?  
subwoofer
The SB1000 Pro will give more depth, slam, and impact than the 3000 Micro. The SB1000 Pro is still pretty small, so unless size is a deal breaker I’d go that route. And even better, you can get 2 SB1000 Pros for only $250 more than one 3000 Micro,... 
Denafrips Ares II Buffering and Reclocking
I have a Musician Pegasus that is pretty close in design to the Denafrips Pontus ll so my experience may be relevant to your situation. I recently added a Denafrips Iris DDC mainly because I wanted the ability to take advantage of my DAC’s i2S inp... 
Preamp for Parasound and B&W803d2
Budget?  
B&W CDM 1NT
That doesn’t preclude going out and listening to other speakers.  The CDM 1NT came out like 30 years ago and a lot of improvements have been made since then, so especially if you haven’t gone to audition speakers in a while it would likely prove t... 
B&W CDM 1NT
I’d take the opportunity to explore other brands as well, as there are a lot of awfully good monitors out there today.   
What should be mandatory in every professional published review-
El whatevero.   
speakers/ amps liking one another
What don’t you like about what you’re hearing now, and what specific improvements are you looking for?  Also, as others mentioned your small, square room is a nightmare, and I’d be surprised if you weren’t experiencing bass issues of some sort.  R... 
Open Baffle Experience
BTW, I recently heard Spatial Audio speakers for the first time with Linear Tube Audio electronics at the NYC show and thought they were one of the top 3 I heard at the show.  Very impressed.   
What should be mandatory in every professional published review-
You simply won’t ACTUALLY know the sound of a thing unless you give a component time in your system...If a lot of reviewers say the same thing about something you can make reasonable assumptions @wolf_garcia And that’s the whole point. I’m not ... 
Open Baffle Experience
Best sound I’ve ever heard, bar none, was the Nola Concert Grand four-tower speakers powered by top ARC electronics and a front end I can’t remember at a NYC audio show. This told me two things — an open-baffle, dynamic driver design is extremely ...