MarkPD’s Irish system

[Markpd]

Interesting!  I'm afraid to say you remind me a bit of myself, using Roon and iTunes etc.

One question, what's the pro audio looking device lurking on your rack?

Oh, and you appear to have forgotten that you have a rather nice turntable?  (Sondek LP12??)

Well spotted - I need to rationalise my rack - lots of older itemS still there. I previously experimented with room notch equalisation on a €300 Beheringer 2496 Digital equaliser to remove my annoying room mode booms. I used REW to characterise the room modes and set up very narrow digital filters to filter those resonances. It did help but with my current bottom ported speakers room resonances seem not so objectionable. 

I do use the lovely Linn LP12 now and then ( since I started collecting music in the LP era I have about 600 LPs) but the sound, while very agreeable, is not so much better to justify the "hassle" of handling LP.  Right now I really believe that Bob Stuart is really on to a fundamental problem with digital sound with his MQA time de blurring. 

Mark