Do NOT Blow Your Entire Budget on Two Channel Audio

When it comes to great audio reproduction, it's not a matter of age. For punks to use ageism as their rational for elevating what amounts to a glorified PA system is laughable. 

Why is it when someone gets the better of someone else, they attribute it to anger when they are the ones flying off the handle, handing out insults to well reasoned arguments? Lots of projection going on here, especially with the use of "audio karens".

Let no one forget who was banned for most of a day for his virulent attacks on members for not seeing things his way. That is what an "audio karen" is.

All the best,
Nonoise

@kota1 
Love love love my BHK 300 mono blocks 100%. My BHK preamp is about to become a Luxman when their new preamp comes out in September, the preamp sounds great but it's simply to noisy, I have a Lyngdorf preamp that is dead quiet but it doesn't sound like a tube, simple as that. 

My PS Audio DAC MK 2 is great, My PS Audio Transport is great. I'm having a hard time finding equipment that sounds better, even replacing my speakers with next level speakers aren't really sounding better in a significant way, I think my Paradigm 9Hs and the JL 113 v2 subs work very well together, strange when I want to upgrade but can't, I guess that's a good problem. 

Just a note of caution, I'm seeing a lot of room absorption all over the place, having a room that is to dry is much worse than a room that is a little to wet, error on the side of wet. I just bought some absorption and I'm right to the point where I don't like my room as much, even sitting int he room with no music isn't as happy. There are so many psychoacoustic interplays in acoustics.

Be careful

@donavabdear

strange when I want to upgrade but can’t, I guess that’s a good problem.

For the longest time I wanted a set of "high end" book shelf speakers for my office. Once I got my JBL’s it didn’t matter if something was "better" was out there, I just loved how they present the music, even though they were not JBL flagship monitors, so I kept them. Like you said, its a good problem.

I get what you mean about overdoing absorption, it just sucks the life out of the room. Anthony Grimani recommends interleafing absorption with diffusion, it was an improvement in my room and his "recipe" is posted in the profile.

@donavabdear You may be right. I am looking at changing the direct side walls to combo devices like I have in the corners. Moving the curved absorbing to back rear wall. I have a false wall where the rears are hung at approx 20ft. Rear wall is at 24’. I also have diffusers for front wall planned for winter. Moving everything is a big project so wait for cold days.

treatments are a combo of Vicoustics and UA Acoustics

i too find the pre a bit loud too. Looking at AR LS28 SE.  cannot find a silver used one. But I will.