"I'm almost sitting on them. 46" from front wall and 25" from side walls. Bass is slightly boomy, but bass traps eventually."
Yeah, you have a lot of speaker in that small room.
"I've considered the Chinook, but I've seen many reports of noise, picking up fm signals and more selling them than keeping them."
The times I demoed one in my system, very quiet.
This looks interesting-
https://www.analogplanet.com/content/hagerman-audios-tubey-quiet-trumpet-mc-phono-preamplifier
Yeah, you have a lot of speaker in that small room.
"I've considered the Chinook, but I've seen many reports of noise, picking up fm signals and more selling them than keeping them."
The times I demoed one in my system, very quiet.
This looks interesting-
https://www.analogplanet.com/content/hagerman-audios-tubey-quiet-trumpet-mc-phono-preamplifier