...and 'offing the wife' seems a bit extreme, dadork....
Just sayin'....;)
everything sounded great until the upgrade
In short: I loved the sound of my modest system, until I upgraded my amp. Now it sounds pretty horrible. It went from a warm sweet embracing easy-to-listen sound to knives and forks trying to escape from a bathtub.
So...
1. I can just unplug this new amp (used) and sell it
Any other options? I could upgrade my speakers but I have no budget for that.
2. I could sell the speakers and use money to buy used ones that go with the amp.
3. Lastly I could change the source, but was it the culprit - to begin with?
btw - the sound of the "new" amp is decent with my turntable, and terrible with my CD player.
(If I wrote brands and models it would throw the discussion into "A sucks, B is great")
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@grislybutter now with your more revealing amplifier in play, and sources in review by you, one other thought will drive some silly. I will ask anyhow. Its likely I missed it, and apologize if so... What interconnect RCA cables are you using now (brand/model/length) between your phono or CD player to your A3.2 integrated today? |
overall feedback processing notes: just like with anything: learning a little reveals how little I knew and how much I thought I knew! Some of the advices are scary, I should not remove the cover and tweak this thing, that never ended well for me. (As a kid I took apart a lot of alarm clocks, none I was able to put back together, (I am a theoretical guy)
@decooney absolutely! You know me by now. My current RCA is crap, something that came 15 years ago with a $20 cd player. I ordered a cable from Amazon last night for $35, I was too embarrassed to ask here. May suck but will still be better than these. @asvjerry I started it, @dadork is the second in line to be visited by the FBI with a warrant.in case of an incident @mofojo first time I heard pink noise :) @clearthinker right! It’s used, no returns, brother’s advice that I always trust. Little prick.... he got me! |
my little prick brother got back to me, he is just probably reading the forum, He says:
Update: CD input IS crap, aux1 is times better
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grislybutter, your “little prick brother” beat me to the point I wanted to make. Since you say the phono sounds good and CD sound is poor, I was sure your issue is in the digital signal path. A separate DAC, imho, can eliminate the discrepancy assuming the CD player has an acceptable transport, digital out, and decent interconnects and power cords are in use. How much better depends in large part on budget. You seem to already have discovered an easy improvement by using a different input…good move and good luck. |
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