Devore O/96 with Class A Solid State Amps

Brownsfan:  " I'm just starting to delve into the world of room treatments, and I am going to be taking my time on this project and getting the room right.  This stuff isn't exactly cheap."

If you are willing and capable of the DIY track, you can achieve very good room treatment without that much cost.  I took this track, and it made very important and critical improvements in my listening experience.

Hi Bill, 
I'm glad you are finding the time to enjoy your music collection and system once again.  Are you using the Coincident Super Victory or do you resort to the Triumph Extremes more often? I came so close to buying the SV but instead bought the Total Eclipse II. Probably couldn't possibly go wrong with either. 
Charles 

jbrrp, I am thinking about building my own diffusors, but I will probably purchase the bass traps and other absorbers.  I have placed an order for Realtrap corner mondo traps, but they haven't arrived yet.   I have found their website and a couple conversations with Ethan Winer to be most helpful in getting started.
Charles, the TE II's are in my downstairs system.  The SV II's stay upstairs in my main rig.  My bonus room presents some problems with full range speakers like the SVs, that don't manifest themselves with the TE's.  I have been able to improve things substantially by moving the SV's closer to the front wall.  Until I did that, the whole room was buzzing from about 50-120 Hz.  Moving the speakers pretty much eliminated the room buzzing, but I am still faced with major non linearity below 300 Hz due to room nodes, back wall cancelation, etc.  The traps should help with that, and we will go from there.  Also, Ethan encouraged me to try again using a more standard short wall placement, which I initially rejected due to utterly unacceptable room nodes.   If I can manage to make that work with the traps in place, that would allow me to have the listening position out from the rear wall.  I suspect that once I get the room issues addressed, I'm going to find the SV's all I hoped they would be, and they will be as dear to me as the TEs are.  This is the first time in my life I have ever owned a speaker with much of anything to offer below 40 Hz, so I am still learning how to make them work in my listening room.
Dan,  indeed this retirement thing is a great gig!  My time to listen is between 4PM and 10PM, at which point I usually turn into a corpse.  My room is above the MBr, so I won't be doing any early morning listening with my late rising wife in the room below.  I listen while my wife is making dinner or whatever, and she occasionally joins me upstairs for a listen.   I don't listen on days I hike, so that leaves me with 3-4 days a week where I can get some good listening sessions in.  Generally speaking, when I don't listen, it is because I am doing something I really enjoy, not because I have some mundane or annoying distraction to attend to.  

Bill,
Looking at pictures of your room and it's really nice with generous space,  it has obvious potential with the use of wisely chosen room treatment. Have you tried having the SV woofers firing outward? This was the better placement in my room but of course this depends on the individual room acoustic environment. I like your long wall arrangement it's attractive. True however that the short wall orientation would allow the SV speakers to be further from the rear wall. No question that you have a number of viable options.  I have no doubt that you'll get it all figured out.  Wow,  I've  really gone off topic on this thread. Bill you get me going 😊
Charles 

Charles,  The pictures are old.  I have the woofers facing outward and that is the preferred orientation.  The speakers are moved back from the listening position and now the rear ports are 18" out from the front wall.  Israel lists that as the minimum acceptable distance from the wall.  Moving the speakers closer to the wall than what you see in the picture really helped in this case.   I have also changed some of the room furnishings, and undoubtedly, the room looks better with long wall orientation than it will look with short wall.  I also have all of my dedicated circuits on the long wall, because the electrician couldn't add anything to the outside short wall without tearing out the drywall.  That means if I use short wall orientation I am probably going to need some long speaker cables, which I'm not crazy about, but you do what you have to do.  As far as going off topic, its not like that hasn't happened with us before.   Good thing we aren't next door neighbors.  Neither one of us would get anything done!