I’ve been going back and forth with GIK on room treatment and plan to get started in January or February. I have a small listening room (~12x16) so I’m doing near field listening. I really like the sound of my system as is, so I’m going to start slow with the 1st and 2nd reflection points and panels on the ceiling over the speakers. Later, I may add corner bass traps and panels behind the speakers on the front wall.
My next major purchase will be a new or used preamp. I really like my BHK preamp, but it doesn’t have an RCA fixed output or record in/out connectors and I need that in order to record vinyl to my Teac X10-R R2R (like I once did back in the 80’s 😉).