Rbschauman...did you buy all this new gear without listening to it? I am not asking in a critical manner, just wandering you if you auditioned it all at a dealer or not? If you did audition it and it did not sound lean in the mids and lower frequencies but is now exhibiting this leaness in your home, then it may be that you have a suckout in your room somewher in the low to mid frequency band and it may be ameliorated with a change in speaker placement and/or room treatments. Just one avenue to explore. If you bought the system sight unseen (or unheard) than you now have to figure out where this leaness is being introduced in the signal chain. I would still play around with speaker placement and see if that helps. Good luck.
Filling out the sound
I have recently acquired Rega’s upper-end equipment (Saturn, R-7 speakers, Cursa pre, Exon Monblocks, P7) and am NOT that impressed with the overall listening experience. This is setup in a large room w/hardwood floors.
Some years back I had Conrad Johnson pre and power, Vandersteens and listened to vinyl on CJ’s Sonograph table. How sweet, full and warm that sounded. I realize that was tube equipment and now I’m with dryer solid state, but still…
So, I’m trying to recapture some of the lower/midrange warmth and body (upper end is fine).Mapleshade puts forth that their maple bases and brass footers will bring up the bass – is this so? Does anyone have any other ideas to “fill out the sound”
Thanks
Some years back I had Conrad Johnson pre and power, Vandersteens and listened to vinyl on CJ’s Sonograph table. How sweet, full and warm that sounded. I realize that was tube equipment and now I’m with dryer solid state, but still…
So, I’m trying to recapture some of the lower/midrange warmth and body (upper end is fine).Mapleshade puts forth that their maple bases and brass footers will bring up the bass – is this so? Does anyone have any other ideas to “fill out the sound”
Thanks
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