Soundstage - Too much?

.....false alarm about the voting/rating thing on my part. At some point I just didn't close "the window". I completed rating each post-- must have taken 10 minutes. Cheers. Craig.

Craig, your room and set-up is very similiar to mine. I'm 1 foot shorter, (always behind the big guys) I have been playing around with different powercords and footers lately. Each time I do anything the presentation changes. The past 2 weeks my system has been perfect!!!!! So in the true audiophile manner I had to try a different cone on my tube pre-amp. I lost the magic that fast. So I put the others back, but I cann't quite find the same point they hit the pre-amps bottom plate. It's close but not quite, so I came out to play computer. The point is, even the finest adjustment on a high resolution system like we both share will alter the presentation. Speaker placement we all are aware of, location is critical to success. It's the tweeks that create the magic, not a new amp. Keep trying suttle alterations, maybe go back to a base point, old powercord, new tubes or whatever. I'm sure it's as suttle as a cone moving 4mm. Good luck, keep us posted. Your continuing the high value of this post with your input. J.D.

Craig I would love to help you with your set up but I need to know two more things. Where is your chair and if you use a sub where is that?

Doug: Great point and I am still thinking out my reply.

Thanks PI, but my system is sounding great. My above post is a bit confusing. I got that big, bloomy, forward, diffuse soundstage only when I was auditioning the components listed above, and was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced that phenomenon. This condition happened with each of the items noted. I did not audition them all together, but individually. My listening position is at 9-9.5 ft., and I do not use a sub. Cheers. Craig.

craig, i can't say exactly *why* yure getting this effect, specifically w/those components inwolwed, but it woodn't surprise me that ewe could get more total *depth* w/any of 'em in yer system, if ya then start playing w/the speaker locations/sound treatment.

to me, these changes sound like a step in the right direction - even if ya dint like the immediate result of the increased forwardness, etc. playing w/the speaker positioning may wery vell get the soundstage back behind the speakers where ya like it, while *also* increasing the perception of depth further back past yer rear wall. yust a thought...

regards, doug