Mmmm Crow tastes good...

Thank everyone for reinforcing my main point when posting comments on this Forum.

YOUR ROOM is the most important part of any listening system, period.

Once you internalize that fact, you are ready to bring stuff home and see how it sounds there rather than to a reviewer--thank goodness for most of them--or anyone else you know, including your salesperson.

"Try before you buy" was the watchword in my former shop.  It should be yours as well.  My customers were always happy after the purchase--well, the ones who followed our advice, anyway!

Cheers!

I had a few hours to myself and I was playing with the sub some more. It occurs to me that my current speakers aren’t voiced to bring what I’m looking for (not just bass but also warmth and clarity). 
So I was talking with an acquaintance who said I should look at Canton (9.2) and Dynaudio Special 40.
It’s not like I’m buying speakers this year or next but for the fun of it, has anyone heard either of these?

Headphones

I used to be anti-sub, but knew I was missing out on some good bass. I had extreme difficulty integrating one into my system properly, but eventually managed to make it sound decent enough. But it was still too muddy with poor resolution on the low end. My listening room is rather small & awkwardly shaped so the acoustics are terrible. I tried room treatments. The affordable option (egg crate foam) worked fine but wouldn't pass the wife test. I'm too stingy to splurge on treatments she'd approve. I recently decided to try a miniDSP DDRC-24 with the Dirac Live room correction software. I'm not sure what manner of sorcery it is, but that little box works MAGIC!!! My system now sounds like the professional setups I've heard when auditioning in AV shops. I now get fantastic resolution on the low end even at lower volumes. I'm now totally pro-subwoofer.

It may be blasphemous to the audiophile community but I highly recommend miniDSP as a reasonably affordable way to help with bass (subwoofer) integration issues and room correction in general.  If you have the right equipment I suppose it may be possible to just get the DIRAC Live as standalone software. I know there are other correction options that are probably just as good (like Room EQ), but this is the one I've experienced and liked. I was unimpressed by Anthem's software that I use for a secondary setup.   

@osiris369 I’m definitely not anti-DSP. If I had a system that was mostly giving me what I wanted I’d definitely look at DSP to tie the room together.