Guidance

Morning All, thanks for continuing to educate me ... couple of points:

1) I put in the GAIAs since my wife was complaining about the artwork in the adjacent room shaking, and I  had to remove the floor vibration, it had definitely helped and I dont think it'll be a good idea to remove (to keep the wife off of my back) :)

2) I agree that my room is less than ideal (but with three middle school kids, I have what I have  :)) . I have walls on north and east side, with west side with three large bay windows and south side with a set of French doors. I did put in sound dampening on the north side wall which has helped remove some of the sloppiness in the sound. I was infact researching and probably will call a local acoustic company for some consultation and see if they can help me in making my listening room non reflective, which I know for a fact would definitely help

3) I had not thought about the speaker cable since they did cost me a pretty penny , but I can give that a try too

4) On the recommendation around the sound characteristics I am after, 90% of the music I listen to is classical (non operatic), blues, jazz, strong vocals. But every now and then when my girls join me in the listening room, we listen to a little Taylor Swift :). I am really after a typical class A / tube like warm sound which I have heard from a few class A/B amps that have a class A lean

@lak I had not thought about changing / upgrading the ac circuit, but while making smaller improvements I did upgrade all the power cables, which did make a lot of improvement to the sound stage. I was also wondering if adding a power conditioner might be a good option. I know that sound quality / sound stage improvement is going to be marginal and incremental, to some degree its the chase of the perfect sound which makes the hobby so enjoyable.

@ghdprentice thanks to you, I would make time to experience Houston symphony, its a good thing that we have lots of opportunities in our city. Its hard to go to live events to enjoy a hobby when no one else in the house likes your taste in music ... lol   

I agree that my room is less than ideal (but with three middle school kids, I have what I have  :)) . I have walls on north and east side, with west side with three large bay windows and south side with a set of French doors. I did put in sound dampening on the north side wall which has helped remove some of the sloppiness in the sound. I was infact researching and probably will call a local acoustic company for some consultation and see if they can help me in making my listening room non reflective, which I know for a fact would definitely help

This is great information and I totally sympathize with the constraints of family. If I were to ask you a brutally honest question (constructively, amiably) it would be this: Given that many of the changes you make will not be truly understood until your room is accounted for, acoustically, are you actually just interested in trying gear out for the pleasure of it? Nothing wrong with that, but just as one does not eat a candy bar while telling themselves it is nutritious, no one should fool themselves with changing gear and thinking they're making a significant improvement if their room is really not acoustically solid. 

Put another way, if you plan to make your room better, acoustically, if you do it later then some of the changes you make now may not be correct later. That's why it's good to understand your own plans and motivations. And hey, maybe if you measure your room now, you might see it's not so bad, acoustically. Knowing that would clear the way to more gear swapping with significant and real impacts.

@hilde45 + 1

Dyne audio lifestyle speaker designed for WAF (undersized cabinet, lackluster drivers, etc) isn’t the right speaker to address such deficiencies.

You could sell it and get

mofi 888 + rythmik f12g subwoofer

or

tekton epic 15 + tekton cinema sub (on the cheap)

If you have bigger pockets, there are other options as well.

But, before you sell or buy anything...fix your room (issues that contribute to thin weightless sound)

when you measure things, you will notice some dips/nulls in the 100 to 300hz range. Put 5 inch thick absorption panels (gik 244, for example) on ceiling right above you and to walls on either side of you, for starters. If you are set up on the long wall, you could either move your seat back/forth out of a lengthwise null a bit..or put thick absorption on wall behind you (not all over the place and suck the life out of your room, but, only behind, to either side and on ceiling... it is very simple physics pertaining to standing wave nullification). i would suggest acoustic fields acda because it is fine tuned for rate of absorption n all, get down to 30ish hz..., but, many of you guys would rather spend on cables than treatment. So, some cheap gik could also work, sorta.

A subwoofer can also be used to fix nulls at freq ranges within its range of operation, not above its range, hope that helps.

i feel like my system sounds pretty good and I personally get multiple hours of listening from my system (almost daily)but I feel like I am missing some weight in mid frequencies and the sound can seem thin now and then.