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
It's not a problem with cables or single components.
Test your room response. This is something that is easy to use http://en.audionet.de/apps/carma/ " bright bass less noise " can mean that your listening/speaker position needs to change a bit (some feet) as you're sitting in a low pressure zone. Depending on your room shape and size and listening position it can mean that more than one bass frequency is affected and that's why it sounds as it does. |
Update, I’ve removed the Audioquest Water interconnects from my cd player to my preamp. I still have the Water interconnects between the preamp and the monoblocks. I replaced the interconnects from the cd player to the preamp with a pair of Audioquest Ruby cables. I don’t know if this is a recommended move or not. What I did find is that my system still has resolution but the brightness/sizzle at the very top is eliminated. Can anyone explain if this move makes any sense, or are the different interconnects ‘fighting’ each other? |
