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Thanks but all that stuff is for my listening room. I have hand built, Nelson Pass designed amp and pre and phono amps too. I built them all. I have treated the room somewhat as described applying diffraction and absorption as needed. My current speakers are Dirty Weekend 6 from Zu Audio; no crossovers. I'm only pushing 10 wpc. with my current amp and the cinimag transformer in the pre is only 6db so I need the efficiency. Everything is straight through with no processing, tone controls, etc. in this setup. In the basement I have the home theater setup. Using my old NHT stuff and a few other things. Denon AVR with a measurement system that tunes it all. Crazy how good it sounds although you can tell it processed but I'm like who cares! When bullets and bits go flying by your head and stuff it's truly crazy how cool it all sounds. I'm looking to upgrade to a 11 speaker double sub configuration but am curious as to whether it's really worth it.Me, but mostly handwired tube stuff.
Don't spend any money until you have a properly treated room, that's the most important component.
The wall behind the speakers should have diffraction, and be 'live' sounding.
Bass traps at first reflection point, and rear wall. You shouldn't be able to tell the size of the room with eyes closed.
A bigger sub is better than more small ones. Currently using a Velodyne DD-18, and using a Marchand active crossover, biamping to the MG20's

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