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I recently decided to upgrade my gear and also do some room treatments as I had a lot of reflections in my room, basically every surface was hard with not much in the way of soft furnishings. I ended up changing my speakers from JBL to a local manufacturer Amphion. I also went from 6.1 to 5.1 as the extra speaker just was not doing much, also probably overkill as my room is not very large, about 20 sq.m The Amphions are bookshelf speakers/monitors and the improvement in soound was immense. They are just so much more accurate and where my previous speakers were slightly subdued the Amphions are the opposite, everything just sounds clearer and more pronounced, unfortunately bad recordings become really horrible to listen to, an example being Johnny Cash- The man comes around, his cover of Hurt gets pretty painful towards the end of the track as there is just so much noise going on.

To combat the reflections I decided on putting up acoustic panels. A lot of planning and work later I am very pleased with the end result. The panels look good and the improvement in sound is huge, no more echo when I clap my hands and sound is just more natural now. I also decided to bulid two QRD diffusors, can honestly say that I have not noticed any difference in SQ, the diffusors are not in their final position yet so maybe there will be a difference?

My room is not a dedicated theatre, it doubles as my lounge so I tried to keep it looking half decent. Still need to hide some cables and upgrade my receiver but for now am very pleased with the results.

The gear: Amphion Argon2, Amphion Origo, Amphion Helium2(rears), BK Electronics Monolith sub, Yamaha RX-V 640, Onkyo cd, Pioneer 575, Sanyo Z3, DIY screen, Xbox, BFD, Topfield 5100 Masterpiece, assorted cables, Ecophon acoustic panels. Any comments are most welcome.