Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright.

Some things can put this obsession into a proper perspective.
You have lost much.
Best wishes.

Sam

Please accept my most sincere condolences for the loss of your loved ones. Originating from a single child family, I have yet to experience a DIRECT loss. I have lost a few relatives recently who live in other countries, but my immediate family here is still alive. (knock on wood). I try to prepair myself here n there so when the unfotunate happens...it wont feel like a brink in the face. But, I think that untimately it is futile. There are many costs to living this life, but they should no outweigh the benefits. We are a unique species indeed.

I'm sorry for your loss, Art. Hang in there. Ultimately, time heals.

Back from funeral and some progress made.
First, I took the loading resistors out which raised the load to 470ohms. This didn't make much difference. Then I replaced the silver cables with inexpensive Wireworld Ic's. This made some difference but there was a loss of resolution. I then removed the WW cables and replaced them with the Signal Cables silver signature. I previously had three different cable brands in the chain. This helped some. But what made a major change was in resetting the VTA. I don't know how it got so far off, but the tail was dragging a lot. I think what happenned was that I lowered it some to ry to alleviate the brightness and then when I set it back to the previous setting, I turned it the wrong way. Now the wife likes it but I would still like to tame the highs a little better. This is not on every album for many sound great. And I just made the changes yesterday. So i haven't listened to very many albums yet. I think the somewhat bright highs are a result of bad pressings as much as anything. Its not a full time thing nor is it unlistenable of fatigueing. So i may be overblowing the problem.
On another not, I have been looking at phono preamps and tube amps.
I've considered the JLTI but would really like to stay with tubes. However this pre gets lots of good reviews. I've also looked at ARC PH3se but have heard that it is not a good match for very LOMC such as mine which is only .23mv output
I've also considered some tube amps. I may pickup a Wright 300B since it is somewhat inexpensive and it would give me a sense of what tubes might sound like.
I can't nor should I spend much tweaking the system now since my wife has reaffirmed her desire for me to build a listening room. She'd like to have her living room back.
Thanks for your kind words about my loss and your help with the problem. 'm still open to ideas about the phono pres mentioned or other observations

That is awesome!

Wifey: "Honey, it just doesn't sound right. You need your own dedicated room to help get the sound right."

If you ever get tired of that woman, give me a ring. I mean, I have one like that already, but in this hobby one can never have too many spares! :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!