My system, some updates....

[Frazeur1]

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I decided to go ahead and move the Holbo TT and Croft pre/phono over to my main rack versus off to the side. It cleaned my front room up a bit, plus I got rid of a little bit of noise in the phono stage circuit, probably from the longer interconnects. Am loving the Croft MM stage, really nice.

Next step will be getting a TT cover made and then will probably upgrade the Nag MP-110 to one of the upper range Nags, or something else, will see. This cheap MP-110 is pretty good though for such little outlay, and seems to work really well with the Croft.

[jandl100]

Only just seen this thread.
Duevel speakers, I do like omnis.

Quite a few years ago someone had a very similar looking pair at the Wigwam show, they sounded amazingly good!

I find that with my MBL omnis it's easy to overdo the room treatment. A little goes a long way, and the benefits of the omni presentation can be diluted by too much absorption.
I found it good to have a 'sanity check' every now and then and remove some just to make sure it really is an improvement!

Lovely looking room you have there, as well.

[Jimbo]

Nice to see your system Tim.

[Frazeur1]

Thanks Jerry and Jimbo, sorry for the crap photos, someday I swear...Jerry, yes, you are right on wall/room treatments with omnis, there does need to be some care in that. My panels are the lowest on the absorption end of things on this type of panel. Once I removed the TV from the top of the rack, I found that the blank wall created a bit too much brightness and slap, these panels proved to be just right. I played around with placement and also quantity of the panels, as I have four of them. I ended up with just two, and am very pleased with the results. It has been a fun little exercise of sorts!

[jandl100]

Interesting what you say about removing the TV screen causing some issues.
I've a 42 inch plasma screen in about the same position between the speakers. And whilst I haven't tried removing it completely I have experimented with absorbent covers to shield it when playing music-only (which is most of the time). To my surprise I preferred the sound without the cover on. Although, even more weirdly perhaps, I have settled on a 4x2 foot GIK absorbent panel placed horizontally against the wall behind the plasma screen.
You just can't predict these things sometimes!

[Frazeur1]

No, you sure can’t predict those types of things, experiment and listen for what works best! I did have a 55” flat screen in that position, and I also tried various covers over it, never felt I had the perfect solution there, yet it didn’t bother the sound all that much, as the panel sat back from the plane of the speakers. Again, omnis are a different thing, as it seemed I had more issues to deal with when I moved the TV screen out!

I am happy with the results though with the GIK panels, just right in my opinion. I think for me, the TV screen was more of a distraction more than anything else. These panels seemed like a distraction as well when I first put them up there, but now they just seem to kind of melt into the wall visually, yet do their thing, while providing a little artistic flair to it all.

I have had several Omni or Omni types of speakers in this room, and I have gotten on really well with almost every one of them, the Shahinian Obelisk being the hardest one to get right, which I never quite did unfortunately, as they had a wonderful midrange and upper end to them that was fantastic. I shouldn’t complain though, the Duevel Venus are doing quite nicely here. I would love to hear your MBL in here Jerry!