Introducing my 2.2 Stereo

If you want to critique your home system, why not invite some music-loving friends over for a listen, preferably some who also are audiophiles.  Let them listen for a few hours, and then ask your questions.  You might also consider visiting the homes of others who fancy themselves as audiophiles and listening to their systems.  Take your own LPs with you on such visits. This is how you might develop a feel for what you are after and maybe where your system might fall short of your personal Nirvana, or not.

I appreciate the responses from all of you.

In my opinion it sounds amazing. I haven't noticed anything weird or off so far. I play a huge variety of music on it and it seems to play well all the way around. I was extremely surprised at how well the bass hits off of vinyl, that was something I'd never really experienced before. 

I'll definitely have to invite people over to check this out. The only down side to that is it's in my bedroom. lol. Until the kids are out of the house it will pretty much stay there. My good friend that got me into getting a good stereo is a huge CD fan. I'm sure he'll give me a lot of good feedback. He also was the original owner of the DefTech's, so it would be even better to have him critique it for me.

Moving forward improve the source components rather than spending on cable improvements. 

My plan is to look for another Carver TFM 35x and bridge them for mono block use. After that I'll probably upgrade the cartridge and see where that puts me.