My endgame system I think

A very de minimis high performer system you have put together.  You must go through tremendous time and effort to sort out and eventually end up with this particular combination in this price range you consider as the "endgame".  It will be more informative/eductional for all audiogoners if you could share your decision making experience during this process, such as what other speakers/amp you have also auditioned ...

Consider placing your Node2 on footers and adding weights on top as suggested by a local audio salesperson.  I think it made an audible difference. The salesperson was not trying to sell me anything as they knew I already had the footers and weights.

@ronboco 

Beautiful execution and equipment.  I have one question:  Every surface in the room looks to absorptive, starting with OC "glass" and rock wool sound barrier does the room sound too dead?  Or do the holes in the peg mitigate that aspect and reflect enough back through the OC?

When I built my room I doubled that walls and had the whole thing spray foamed and then rock wool all surfaces.  The room was so dead as to be spooky and actually disconcerting due to no sound clues...walking, talking etc.  Then sheet rocked with Quietrock and Green Glue.  At the moment, the room is like an echo chamber, but no sound gets in or out.  Equipment to be moved in shortly and then acoustic treatments as needed.

Interestingly, my color scheme is an exact match to yours and I even have the same sconces!

I completely get why you have the system firing out of the corner, I have been advised to do this with my system, but it just won't work in my situation.

Best of luck with it.

Regards,

barts 

@lanx0003 

I am fortunate to have several dealers in Colorado to be able to listen to a variety of systems. I listened to B&W , Sonus Fabre , Magico , Rockport and I am already familiar with Focal as that is what we have in our home theatre in the family room. Amps were McIntosh , Moon , Hegel and Boulder. They all sounded nice really but my final decision was based heavily on opinions here and WBF and the stellar reviews Rockport and Boulder received. 

Now that gives being locked up in a padded room new meaning. You can Lock this audio nut in anytime.