Such Great help before. Maybe some more help now

Hello paqua 123!  Cables do make a difference, small, but noticable. Some dealers and manufacturers will loan you cables to try out. The cable that feeds the DAC is the most critical. You can lose ony postage/shipping costs in trying out cables. I didn't believe it until I decided to compare the various cales I had on hand. What works well for someone else may not work for you, don't be shocked. Do your friends agree on the best restaurant? Our ears are all shaped differently. We all have different mixes of equipment. Your system is easily good enough to hear differences in cables. The shorter they are, the less they matter. That's why they sell "monoblocks."  You can put 'em on the floor right behind (alongside?) your speakers and use a foot of zip cord salvaged from an old radio and do well. Of course, now we can discuss long power cords and interconnects! Some speaker makers don't care how their crossovers affect the amp. Some care a lot. The important thing is to enjoy the music! Whatever improves you enjoyment is worth a bit of bother in trying different thing out. Keep Smiling!

Thank you! So many what appear to be minor tweaks with possible major impacts. Sounds like an interesting road to go down!

I supplement my Forte IV's with a REL S/510 (driven by Luxman class A).  One of the best extra investments I ever made; seamless sound and disappears as a separate sound source, once properly set up (and that part was easy).

If you like the speakers, as I did, the greatest positive change would come from three things:

1. Room treatment. This is the biggest lever, potentially, but also involves the greatest cost and trouble. But it's 50% of the sound. Lots of help out there.

2. Vibration control over the speakers. Something like a Townshend platform. I have used these with a variety of different speakers and the difference is very noticeable -- defeated my skepticism. I was willing to ship them back for a refund but they made an undeniable positive difference. More than cable changes or tube changes or almost anything else.

3. At least one good subwoofer, possibly more, carefully placed and tuned in to your current speakers. Not a cheap or easy enterprise to do correctly but it is magic once it clicks in.

OP and Others: Show Us Your Listening Space/System/Equipment.

Once you try and then figure it out, putting a Virtual System, uploading photos on this site, is easy, it would let other's see your listening space, saves a million words trying to convey ....... and it is then easy to copy the address of any image there and post in a conversation, which is my main reason for creating all this

my virtual systems make it easy to understand, give/get advice, share ....