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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
sandthemall
544 posts
 
Maybe a preamp/amp match...I doubt it.

Most likely it’s the room. My current system is 3x the cost of my previous system in my previous residence. That system, in that room, walks away from my current system (It had early concrete acoustic ceilings). But it took almost a year of trial and error to find that sound.

I agree that Primaluna sounds downright bodacious if you don’t mind a very slight loss in detail.

tony1954's avatar
tony1954
1,144 posts
 
There is a simple solution.    

Just wait until you are in your late 60's and you won't be able to hear anything above 12khz anyway.    

Problem solved.
sokogear
1,100 posts
 
Get a turntable and a few records and I am sure it will sound better.
hallock01's avatar
hallock01
9 posts
 
Looks like your speakers go down to 34hz....I would add a subwoofer...then play with placement...then run REW for the final touch....IMO...
avitacom
90 posts
 
Several writers have suggested substituting a vacuum tube preamp.  I would recommend a device based on the 6SN7 such as one of the superb Cary units or Roy Mottram’s Vacuum Tube Audio SP14, which is an excellent bargain.
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