Is 9'x11' too small?

Kray, I would have a window directly behind my gear as well, not directly behind the speakers, but close enough. I currently have 2" wood blinds on both windows in the room, but I would consider putting up oversized curtains that actually fill the back wall behind the gear and speakers. I am thinking I could make some homebrew acoustical treatments with Armstrong's SoundSoak Material? I have relatively cheap access to this material and could have corner and wall treatment for the whole room for only about $100!

Spacekadet, nice inherited gear! I would love to hear my Totems on McIntosh gear! That is also inspiring that I can maybe move up the Totem line, while still in a small space.

Aroc, I am basing the system around Totem Arros at this point. Pairing them with a Cairn Fog v.2 and PrimaLuna Prologue Two. As far as AN gear, I used an AN DAC One.1 in my system breifly, but can't say I was overly impressed with it? It may have been the pairing (Classe' CDP.3 and Plinius 8200mkII at the time), but I wasn't wowed. AN may be like Naim in some respects, that it works together better with an all AN system? I've also read that AN is one of those 'love it / hate it' kin of things. While I didn't 'hate it', it didn't stay in my system long. It was replaced with the Cairn Fog actually.

Thanks for the response.

I too am in the this same process. While reading, I hit upon an idea of setting things perpendicular. The speakers coming out of one corner and the listening position in the opposite corner (kitty corner). This was used by a speaker designer that was having a problem with a room and could not tame it with room treatments. I am going to try it. My room is 10x10x8, square is even tougher !

YesSaki70, I would try a diagonal speaker placement in that 10x10 square room of yours.

Saki70, I had a diagonal placement in one of my previous rooms and loved it. Only problem the room has to be pretty much square to do that, which yours seems to be. Only thing that gets slightly difficult in the diagonal placement is to place speakers far enough from the back/side wall.

Good luck!