Thanks aagian for the further input. Sorry I have not been able to give too much in further results... been sick with an abcessed tooth..Ouch!
Anyway, I have rebalanced my system with the B&K Mic and RTA and achieved some better results as of late last night. Tried to remove the EQ, but did not like the room effects. Bass was overwhelming with slight high absorbtion in the 16 to 20K range. Sill only about 2 db of loss here.
In addition, I may have some further info and perhaps I am now experiencing some poor quality tubes in another component shinging through. As I said, I use a modified Jolida JA100 CD player which is tube based. Part of the mods called for changing the original Chinese tube set for New Svetlanna 12AX7's. Talking with Dr. Tube, says he believes the Svetlanna tube to be very poor quality, so much so that he has discontinued selling them or supporting them. He says, only about a 30% yield was the norm and that 30% was mediocre at best. This is confusing to me as several High end places are doing the CD mod with the Svetlanna. Something I researched before i had it done..Oh well, Cest la vie.
This may be part of the problem, since the CJ is a very revealing preamp. Perhaps it is emphisizing what these tubes are doing. They are still very new with perhaps only 10 to 15 hours use on them. Still I have some problems with other input devices producing the same type of effect, i.e. tunner, or TV audio. Though these are not that important to me, as I use the CD or Phono most.
I guess I have much to do with trying different tubes and combinations. I will post with further results. Good listening. Dale.
Anyway, I have rebalanced my system with the B&K Mic and RTA and achieved some better results as of late last night. Tried to remove the EQ, but did not like the room effects. Bass was overwhelming with slight high absorbtion in the 16 to 20K range. Sill only about 2 db of loss here.
In addition, I may have some further info and perhaps I am now experiencing some poor quality tubes in another component shinging through. As I said, I use a modified Jolida JA100 CD player which is tube based. Part of the mods called for changing the original Chinese tube set for New Svetlanna 12AX7's. Talking with Dr. Tube, says he believes the Svetlanna tube to be very poor quality, so much so that he has discontinued selling them or supporting them. He says, only about a 30% yield was the norm and that 30% was mediocre at best. This is confusing to me as several High end places are doing the CD mod with the Svetlanna. Something I researched before i had it done..Oh well, Cest la vie.
This may be part of the problem, since the CJ is a very revealing preamp. Perhaps it is emphisizing what these tubes are doing. They are still very new with perhaps only 10 to 15 hours use on them. Still I have some problems with other input devices producing the same type of effect, i.e. tunner, or TV audio. Though these are not that important to me, as I use the CD or Phono most.
I guess I have much to do with trying different tubes and combinations. I will post with further results. Good listening. Dale.