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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


onehorsepony
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jasonbourne52
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Place the 802D's against the wall for the best/flattest bass! The farther out in the room the most uneven bass. This applies to all box speakers. Roy Allison investigated this phenomenon 40+ years ago! Subsequently it was called the Allison Effect. Roy successfully marketed a line of speakers that took advantage of this proximity to the room boundaries for flat bass response. Around the same time (1977) Peter Snell produced his Type A speaker utilizing this principle of locating the woofer near the wall/floor boundary. 
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None of the posters above me have got it right! Change the preamp, change the amps, change the interconnects, get a  power conditioner ... What malarkey and lack of understanding of basic acoustic principles!
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+1 pgaulke60! My apologies - I missed seeing your post! You at least understand the importance of room placement! 
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-1 thyce! The farther a woofer is from the wall/floor boundary the worse it's response. This can be verified by measurements. Changing the crossover caps is a futile and money-wasting endeavor! 
turnbowm
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Work with what you have before exploring equipment changes. Check speaker connections to make sure that the speakers are in phase. Try different speaker positions... closer to the wall for more bass.
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