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Picking components -warm / bright which is righ?

When you choose components in a system how do you choose? Do you offset one type of component with the oppposite in another? For example, lively, bright speakers with a warm tube preamp? Or all components of the same type?
With the low cost of digital amps, I'm leaning towards mellow, forgiving speakers which will add some body to the lean, detailed sound of digital.
As recorded music gets to be better quality, the trend seems to be stereos designed to be less forgiving of any faults in the chain. Which is great for perefect recordings but renders a lot of music unlistenable.
cdc
jburidan
803 posts
 
Cdc:
Choose neutral components. Roll tubes to tweak from warm to cold. A good comination is solid state amp for bass tightness with tube pre-amp. There are some good integrated such as Cary SLI-80 Signature. Look for neutral speakers and shun metal dome tweeters. Choose neutral wires. Take my advise, unless you wish to spend lots of time, energy and money on endless upgrades. Personally, I
would not want a digital amp.
Jay
eldarado
381 posts
 
Pick what sounds good to you. Try to audtion in hom due to the response of you listening room.

Good luck,

Burton
unsound
7,329 posts
 
Jburidan, why would you not want an amp because it's digital?
mfkeleher
146 posts
 
I agree with those above who point out it's about your own taste. It's really important to learn what you like long term. Some things sound really good for the first few hours, but eventually cause listeners fatigue and reduces your listening time. Identify what you like in your friends systems. Select some recordings featuring sounds that you like, get real familiar with them, and then hear them on as many components as you can. Then when you find a new setup which on first hearing is special, you'll know from your audition music if anything important to you is missing.
cdc OP
1,785 posts
 
I know what sounds good to me, just wondering how others pick their system. What would a nuetral speaker be? Everything affects the sound in one way or another.
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