Guillaume's hi-fi system

[GuillaumeB]

I must admit I love the look of this system.  I know there is much debate about the benefit of cables, ceramic isolation footers etc., but here is a system that appears to cover everything anyone might think of.  (Edit - except perhaps room correction, just though of that one)  So if it makes a difference, however small, it's there.  If nothing else this must provide enormous piece of mind and satisfaction, thus leading to the "just enjoy the music" mode we all strive for.

Adding to the general interrogation here, you can hardly miss the centre speaker in the pics, I presume this is non Devialet powered?  Have you ever considered picking up an old D-premier or similar to provide a bit of synergy with the O d'A's?  (Feel free to ignore this, just being slightly mischievous!)

Thanks Confused! 

Actually there are GIK acoustic panels in the front corners and a couple of free standing bass traps at the back behind the listening position, when I had the Trinnov Amethyst on extended home dem what I found was that my room was pretty good and didn't need a huge amount of correction. Active room correction was an option I explored for a while trying first of all Dirac and then of course the Trinnov solution.

I suppose my mantra in all of this is "everything matters". If a tweak only has 0.2% effect, it doesn't really matter I am looking for the sum total of dozens of these tweaks, if that makes sense. I also find that the more tweaks I add to the system the more responsive it becomes to further tweaks. I realise it may seem a bit bonkers to some but I can assure you I derive great pleasure from this audiophile obsession and believe it or not there is still plenty to do! Next on my list are some Stillpoints Ultra5s for my Sashas. These will have the added benefit of making the repositioning of my speakers much easier; at the moment it is literally backbreaking work! Since swapping my speaker cables a lot of that high frequency energy is gone meaning I can now toe them in a bit more so that the tweaters are pointing at me, which is how Wilson recommend setting them up anyway. Also the O d'A has a slightly different presentation which I want to fully exploit through better speaker positioning.

The centre speaker (a SF Cremona M) is powered by a Linn Klimax Solo, a remnant of my Linn past. I have considered replacing it a few times but actually the SQ of the Linn is pretty damn good so I am loath to sell it and take a 50% hit on value. But you are right, it would certainly make sense to have another 250 powering the centre speaker. Even a D-Premier would do the job admirably and I could even connect it to my ADA processor via HDMI (shock horror!!). 

Cheers

Guillaume