[George Prentice]

Originally Posted by sleeper

The main limitation is my room, which is an acoustically untreated living room, set up mainly as a music room with a love seat sofa and a single guest easy chair, with equipment racks, CD and LP storage cases, etc. And of course, glass windows and artwork on the walls. Putting more and better high end gear in this environment is not likely to push the system performance a whole lot higher. I think that I'm way past the point of diminishing returns.

I lucked out on buying the house we live in. The space for my system is large, highly irregular in shape, underground on front and side walls making it dead silent. This is probably the single greatest component in my system. Any thought of moving is immediately discarded because I would never be able to find a place as good. Also, the audio room is so isolated that my partner is not woken up regardless of the volume, she is a light sleeper and sleeps during the day. As they say, it is better to be lucky than good... I was really lucky!