Firstly, the size of my room is 21’4” by 11’1”. It is a fairly typical livingroom having two windows on the left wall (measuring 7’7” and 5’9” respectively, both have blinds and curtains,) the rear wall has one window (measuring 5’8” again having blinds and curtains) the right wall has a centrally mounted gas fire. The front wall has a centrally mounted tv. and a large painting. There is a small painting hung between the two windows on the left wall and another small painting on the rear wall. The floor is wooden and of the suspended type, there are two large rugs laid between my hi. fi. system and both mine and my wife’s listening positions (a large leather settee and chair positioned 10/11 feet from my speakers). There is a large glass atacama rack (housing my electronics - Roksan Kandy LIII Intigrated Amplifier, Roksan Kandy LIII CD Player, Bluesound node2 streamer a blue ray player and a sound bar). Either side and slightly forward of the rack are my floorstanding speakers (Tannoy revolution signature) distance between the speakers is 6’1”, distance from the front wall is 3’ and the side walls 2’6”. My system was bought as a hi. fi. bundle from Creative Audio (sadly no longer trading). Streaming is via ”Tidal”.
A little bit of a backstory: I am 68 years old, my wife is 61; I’ve been listening to music since the mid sixties firstly on a Dansette Major through monograms, stereograms , music centres and separates technology has certainly changed over the last fifty plus years!
The new system I’m possibly going to buy (I will audition before I buy) is Naim Unity Nova with a pair of floorstanding speakers, Focal Aria 926,936; Kef Q950 (price range £4,819.00 - £5,579.00). As the floor is of the suspended type I will also be buying 4 iso acoustics Gaia 111 for each speaker, and 4 iso acoustic ores series isolation feet for the rack & 4 for the Nova Uniti Nova.
The above systems are “for sale” at Sevenoaks, they also have a number of different speaker cable options the most expensive being Qed Sig Revelation terminated at a price of £111.96 2 metre pair. I am somewhat surprised at the price given that I have found them much cheaper elsewhere (perhaps because of my ignorance on such matters I’m comparing apples with oranges!). Would these be a good choice or would I be better- off spreading my net a little wide ? I’m thinking of What HI FI Best Buy Audioquest Rocket 22.
I’ve seen on a number of ”YouTube” videos systems being demonstrated with racks situated between the speakers, I note that What HI FI says that this is a bad idea. I’ve asked , in another place, whether I should replace my existing rack with a smaller one placed in the corner of my room ,rather than between my speakers. The answer was to stick with what I have as both interfere with soundstage and imaging. I’m somewhat puzzled.
I apologise for the above diatribe.
If there are any suggestions as to how I could improve my listening enjoyment I would be much obliged.
Thanks.