I was walking out of the room at one point to go grab some of the free nice food 
, and I think one of the other guys in the room was starting to say something. Not really sure what happened after that.
Youād better say only good things about the dCS!
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Well, I do like my Rossini and I do like their audition room, and I do know they assembled the demo system two weeks ago and have been breaking it in since, so odds are good.
I finally made my way through all the posts in this forum.
You guys are parsing some pretty esoteric kit here. My next upgrades are two-fold:
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Fine-tuning my acoustics by having a 22" wide x 9.75ā high wall built to the right of my speakers. It will extend an existing wall and be the mirror image of an existing wall to the left side of the speakers. To add some density, it will have a double thick layer of wallboard on the Living/Listening Room side. To add additional stiffness, it will have double the number of studs and 2 horizontal cross-braces. Rockwool will be inside the wall. I donāt like to tap on a wall and have it āsingā back to me, as most walls do in modern construction. Aesthetics matter, so at completion it must look like it was always there. The hard part is not the construction, it was gently explaining the need to my boss. That took a year.
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Just ordered Magneplanar 2.7iās to replace my 1.7ās. Hope to have them breaking in by end of Sept. Also, the 2.7iās have 2 fuses each, so I ordered another set of SR Purples. (Already have 2 Rel T/9iās.)
That will be it for a while. Beginning late Dec. we will do many months of traveling.
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All of them? Wow!
Test: What color audio gear does @luca.pelliccioli prefer?
Also, welcome to the Rabbit Hole!
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I know that one, itās Black. Black is believed to sound better than Silver. 
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I just heard the 2.7s at a MN dealer and they will be worth the wait.
I learned in another forum that Lucia is a black guy. Iām a silver guy (except for the LED power meter I have kept since college). My wife sometimes wishes I were a normal non-audio guy. 
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The 2.7iās should show up by late Sept. Until then it is table radios. Then several weeks of burn-in + a month to finalize position and coordination with the 2 Rel. Right now, I will be happy when the new section of wall construction is complete so I can clean and reassemble my dining and living rooms (hopefully by end of next week).
Welcome JAS, you are right! Black like the coffee, that is incidentally the preferred transversal argument of Vince in this forum, no matter the thread! But you already know that, having read all the posts!
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I have a constant nagging dilemma - simplify, both logically and also physically.
Butā¦
then I long for more complexity to give me more flexibility and configuration interest.
ā¦then that becomes a nuisance because of the headspace it takes up so I long for simplicity.
Rinse and repeat 
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I donāt have the nagging notion to simplify.
For me it is all about finally reaching that level that most of us strive for.
Now that I am finally there, I have no desire to give that up. Am enjoying listening to music.
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Interestingly (perhaps), I found that simplifying also led to improved sound quality, and along the way I shed multiple little black boxes, power cords, LPSs, etc.
Life is good now.
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This certainly is The Way.
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These are meant for a 2nd system in a 2nd room. Temporarily connected to the main system, the LRS+ does sound pleasant.
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Fun speaker the LRS+ is indeed.
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Its name is a real mouthful: The HighEnd Novum PMR Premium MK II (Passive Multi-Vocal Resonator). Hereās mine:
Itās a beast: Fourteen inches in diameter and over seventeen pounds of sand-cast bronze alloy. Iāve had it for five days now, no break-in required!
The instructions say that it can be placed anywhere in the listening room, preferably at ear level. Most folks put them between and behind the plane of their speakers, but that doesnāt work for me with my present setup. An alternate setup location noted in the instructions is behind and to one side of the listening position, and thatās where mine is located, sitting on my dining table.
The manufacturerās measurements show that it adds harmonics to the sound of your speakers in the room. That should be a bad thing, right? Well, not in my particular system, and not in my room.
This oversized bronze frisbee (imagine the damage that Oddjob could do with one of these!) is doing some amazing things at Casa AndynotAdam. Right off the bat, the music seemed louder by one or two clicks. The soundstage has been utterly transformed and expanded in every direction. Clarity and image focus are greatly enhanced, everything seems tidier, better-organized and more, wellā¦ real. Organic even. Bass notes are firmer and more forceful and extended. At the same time, the sound seems somehow more relaxed, meaning that I can listen at realistic levels without any hint of fatigue (sorry neighbors!).
I was extremely lucky to find one used. It took six months of daily searching until I found one from a guy who was downsizing his system. Mine is a MkII model; they currently offer a revised MkIII version.
It clearly isnāt the first thing you should add to a system, but in my case, after a number of significant recent major upgrades to cabling and amplification, and some tweaks like Pink Fuses for my amps and an SR Black Box bass resonator (recommended BTW) my system was really singing. I couldnāt think of a āmy next upgradeā that wouldnāt have cost in the five figures. Used, this one was in the very low fours. $1400 to be exact. New MkIIIs are $2990. There is a smaller model in the lineāthe Initium MkIIāwhich is currently $1590. I am seriously considering buying one of those because I could much easier place it between my speakers, but I am clearly getting ahead of myself.
Iām my room, and in my system, this thing amounts to a major component-level upgrade and it seems to greatly complement my suite of SR HFTs and Black Box resonators.
Iām a very happy boyā¦
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Fun!
Thank you for the report.
I just ordered a pair of NOS Telefunken EL84 power tubes for this little squirt of an amplifier.
Itās hilarious how well it powers my Wilsons.
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Canāt go wrong with TFKs! Them and Valvos. Love āem both.