The room and the system are hopelessly mismatched. When i see few absorption panels installed on a longitudinal room with sloped roof and our triangle is so pointy you can put out an eye and then a frekin gpower cable is upgraded? What the F? Who ever think this is a good system, is mistaken. No doubt the components individually sound great but the priorities are:
Speakers
Room
Everything else.
Cables.
Speaker response fluctuations are at best +/-1db, usually we are talking about +/-3dB.
Room nodes can have +/-12dB at worst. In a room like this one, that is exactly what we are fighting against. Mountains.
Amps, DACs etc effect on the "sound" is quite minimal and requires very very good room and system to have even a chance of detecting anything. DB tests so far have shown that there are no audible differences between amps driven at nominal level as long as we re talking about gear that is designed to be transparent (amps that deliberately color the sound are not amps but include some processing or filtering). Same has been shows to be true in DACs, if there are differences, they are minimal.
Cables can affect the sound, when we take two examples from opposite ends of spectrum. But again, it is ebatable if we can hear those or not. Roll-off can increase 0.1dB and there is no human alive that can pick that up but it is at least in theory, possible.
So in that sense, where is the logic of marginally improving components that are meant to be transparent while totally skipping the mountains of mistakes. You can't polish a turd, no matter how many bling bling cables you buy, invest in diffusion, arrange your room better, take the freakin gFAN off the ceiling before trying to buy monoblocks, for fucks sake.. That thing is basically a Leslie unit on the ceiling.. and we have cable bling, in the form of power and digital cables, nothing is more idiotic.. Interconnects and speaker cables i can somewhat understand but my electrician training, my audio engineer and sound designer education plus 30 years on the field says: "this guy has too much money and no common sense".
Sell you monoblocks and cables and get a professional, he will fix that room with 4000$ worth of gear and make it sound ten times better.
