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taming female voice

My system consists of meadowlark kestral 2's a birdland odeon lite dac run through a cheap toshiba transport and a cayin ta-30 integrated tube amp with tube audio design speaker cables and interconnects along with the same powercord. The room demensions are 11.5 wide and 14.5 long with french doors open on the long end the speakers are also firing down the longer part of the room. As far as room treatments go, all I have are some pillows stacked against the walls next to the speakers for side reflection.
My problem is that whenever I play female singers they really seem to zing my ears, that being said I dont listen quietly not stupid loud..about 9-10 o'clock on the dac. Male singers seem to not zing the ears. Please offer suggestions! Thanks
sean34
sean34 OP
95 posts
 
The cable I have may be the problem, cheap interconnects and copper speaker cable from Paul at tube audio. Most people have told me that the interconnects are most important, how much do I have to spend to get good ones? I would like to stay under 150$.
s23chang
617 posts
 
I would replace the source first before the cable. birdland odeon sounded pretty bad in my friend's setup.
His favorite Dac is the Kora Hermes.
If you don't wish to spend whole lot of money and only care for CD play back, I would strongly recommend an used Marantz CD 17 MKII players.
audiofankj
373 posts
 
Sean34,

I am sure you can find good sounding interconnects for under or near $150... I think I saw some of the Audience AU24 for around $200 for a 1m pair of interconnects.

I have auditioned this cable and it was very supprised at how well it performed against cables that were well over the $1,000 price point...

Good luck.
sean34 OP
95 posts
 
s23chang, how do you mean it sounded bad? Mine does not sound bad, I don't think it is the dac that is causing my problem.
s23chang
617 posts
 
Depends on what DACs you have heard. There are many sounded much better than your Dac. Again, just my opinion with my subjective listening test. We have listened to over 20 different DACs and all sound quite different.
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