The Don Sachs preamp is probably not your issue. I have this preamp...it's incredible.
If you took your friend's system and dropped it in your room, it would probably not sound the same anyway.
If the room is wrong, you will get time smear among other things.
The sounds seems to be really good until you reduce some smear and then you think, 'how did I think that was sounding good at all?'
You really won't know until it's reduced. I say reduced because I don't think you can realistically remove all of it...nor would you want to...everything would sound dead.
I now have dedicated AC lines, 15k more in upgraded components and the room in my old home kills this system. I was using an old Carver amp (although I too was using a Don Sach Model 2 preamp).
Is your room a dedicated listening room or a living room situation? If it's a living room, then you need to be clever about the acoustics.
If you took your friend's system and dropped it in your room, it would probably not sound the same anyway.
If the room is wrong, you will get time smear among other things.
The sounds seems to be really good until you reduce some smear and then you think, 'how did I think that was sounding good at all?'
You really won't know until it's reduced. I say reduced because I don't think you can realistically remove all of it...nor would you want to...everything would sound dead.
I now have dedicated AC lines, 15k more in upgraded components and the room in my old home kills this system. I was using an old Carver amp (although I too was using a Don Sach Model 2 preamp).
Is your room a dedicated listening room or a living room situation? If it's a living room, then you need to be clever about the acoustics.
