Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Yes, the Trenner&Freidl ART is lovely, as is their ISIS floorstander, but maybe would be too big for Matt's room. I think the Pharoah is a tad smaller.

Andreas Friedl is a nice guy as well who I keep running into at European shows.

For real Cachet value and a truly INERT enclosure: Try Fischer und Fischer...see write up here:
http://theaudiotraveler.com/2014/11/22/high-end-swiss-2014-fischer-fischer-speakers-and-mudra-akustics/

http://www.fischer-fischer.de/start.html

Check out the SN/SL570 AMT,770.1 AMT and the SL1000.
The ones with the AMT are the ones to get and it seems the 770.1 is the new flagship that goes down to 24db and has max SPL of 115db. They weight 160kg each!!!

I agree Matt. A full range floor stander is the ticket.

As you are discovering, the room is tricky business. Despite your obvious intelligence and DIY proclivities, professional help may be $ well spent....

I've spent on professional help. A LOT!!!!

I have hired 2 professional engineers who have worked on the job. And payed 2 treatment companies additional fees for room calculations to advise on treatments. But none are local and one have come to see the room, measure it or listen.

To all out there reading who are not posting, and I know there are a lot of you (since we are at almost 700,000 views), if you are building a room PLEASE PM me so I can tell you what I have done wrong so you don't have to spend on what I did….

What you need is a professional LOCAL guy who can come over, measure & listen, make suggestions and then come over AGAIN & AGAIn to and measure & listen. Otherwise you have to pay for plane tickets and hotels and such….

I have done everything right in my room. I know I have, and I have been told I have by all of the people I have paid to help me up to this point. And yet I clearly have a node issue that can, I know, be fixed with the right "tricks"….

I know John from Audio Connection is a great resource, but he's not an engineer and his solution is going to be for me to buy a pair of Vandy Sevens so he can adjust the Sevens to avoid the problem. I haven't ruled that idea out, but id rather cure the disease then treat the symptoms. And I can always put an Accuphase parametric equalizer or other electronic room correction device into my system to do the same thing that the Vandy adjustments allow so it can be applied to any speaker system….

I will fix this, oh yes. And when I do my room will be amazing!

It will, dare I say it, be the Shizzle'ist of the Shizzle!

damn typos.

not "one have come to see the room."

NONE have come to see the room. All have advised based on measurements I took and measurements of the room. But none have sat in it and listened and taken their own measurements…

As my idol Dr. McCoy says all the time…. Dammit guys, I'm a doctor, not an audio engineer!!!!

I see Matt. Yes, a local guy would be most useful when you are fiddling with various room tuning devices. It has to be done in real time just like speaker set up.

I took a slightly different approach using engineering blue prints (based off of various calculations) where all the technology was inherent to the room structure and did not involve the usual external, piecemeal approach. I have no bass traps, diffusers, etc. It was a gamble but worked. More on that later.