B&W could use EQ, try Dirac, REW or something to smooth those things out.
What is wrong with my system?
Hi everyone -
I’m posting here because individually I think my components are all good, but together my system is not making music, rather is is making bright bass less noise. Honestly, I’m thinking it’s no one component, but the matching of components that is causing this issue. I would like to get everyone’s opinion as to what I’m hearing. My components are as follows:
B&W 802D (first generation diamond)
Audioquest bi-wired Indigo speaker cables
Classe CAM-200 monoblock amplifiers
Audioquest Water XLR interconnect
Bryston BP26 preamp
Audioquest Water XLR interconnect
Mark Levinson 5100 cd player (PCM slow minimum phase)
thanks in advance.
Mark Levinson 5100 CD player
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First, never buy all the same cables. I've heard some great systems wired with Audioquest turn to absolute rubbish swapping in another Audioquest. Purchase cables that mate well with the components they interconnect. Disregard 99.99% of all specific recommendations for what to buy, be it cables, amps or ???. You are listening to a system, part of which is the room - which you did not describe - and all must integrate euphonically. The 802d is not particularly bright, but has a nasty impedance curve which may give the Classe fits. B&W 802D loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com The amp is how old? May need a rebuild How did you assemble this system? |
B&W with Bryston is a very clinical and harsh combination. I would get a tube preamp (I love BAT), and would sell the B&Ws to get speakers with a soft-dome tweeter. I sold my B&W N804s a few years back, got speakers with a soft-dome tweeter (JA Pulsars - v1), and have been very happy with the change. |
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