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Piano and Trumpet can sound bright

SYSTEM:
SPEAKERS...Celestion SL700SE
AMPS...Quicksilver tube 90 watt silver monos
PREAMP...Quicksilver tube LS non-remote...new model
Theta Miles CD Player
CABLES... Kimber 8tc/8tc bi-wire (speakers), Kimber kcag and silverstreak (interconnect).

Any thoughts?... to loud, artist style (Red Garland, Miles Davis), aluminum tweeters, cables, room acoustics
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tomcy6
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Check out the frequency response graph of the Celestion SL700 in this Stereophile review:

http://www.stereophile.com/content/celestion-sl700-loudspeaker-1991-measurements

While there is a big dip in the frequncies between 10k and 20k the spike beyond 20k would have to have an effect on the sound of the speaker,IMHO. That spike is found with many metal tweeters.
unsound
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Charles1dad, Ah, I think we have a better understanding now. I was not suggesting that trumpets always sound bright, just that they can have their moments of brightness, and perhaps more so than some other instruments.
ebm
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Time to upgrade.
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russ69
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Yeah, it's the interconnects. Go to PBJ and dump the Silverstreak and KCAG.
hifisoundguy
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I have heard a lot speakers in my time and to my ears they still have not perfected the "High Frequency" yet !

If you don't get the highs right then it does not matter how good the midrange or bottom end are because it just will not sound right...period !...
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