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Here is my brand new (1 month old) system. I enjoy it immensely and love the music. I never enjoyed jazz untill I got this system and now I'm taking everything the library owns! I'm posting this because {A} I know it can be better (and hopefully inexpensively), especially in regards to detail and {B} I'm really enjoying system building as a hobby as well. So far part B hasn't interfered with my musical enjoyment (keeping my fingers crossed), so I would like to take some tweak or part-swap suggestions. I'm most interested in any advice that can make my system better for low volume/nearfield (6 foot equilataral triangle) listening. My first intended tweak is to buy two Blue Circle Noise Hound's since I live in an old apartment building.
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    • California Audio Labs CL-15
    HDCD, burr-brown 20-bit DAC
    • Silver Audio Bullet 4.0
    0.4M to preamp
    • EVS Ultimate Nude Attenuator
    Mono, stepped shunt attenuators with Vishay resistors. RCAs plug directly into amp.
    • Monarchy Audio SM-70 pro
    25wpc class A
    • Coincident CST-.5
    Coincident's entry speaker cable
    • Vandersteen 1c
    Vandersteen 1c; 38hz-20khz

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Mcmillan, you have a nice system there. Some of the biggest bang-for-the-buck and least expensive tweaks include:

I. Room acoustic adjustments including speaker placement.
(some say room acoustics can account for up to 80%
of the quality of sound you hear.)

II. Electrical Tweaks
1. Line conditioning. (more expensive)
2. Installing dedicated circuitslines for each
component.
3. audio-grade outlets.

III. Isolating components from vibrations.

-IMO

stehno