You might be setting the speakers too far apart. This can lead to an unstable stereo image and other issues from side wall reflections.
Driving me crazy
Wow where do I begin.
About seven years ago I drove the volume up on my amps to high on accident and popped the bass drivers on my dynaudio c-4 speakers. Sent them in to dyn and had them fixed. Seven years later and two different systems, acoustic treatments, new speakers, cables, cd player, moved the system four different places in the room and the left side always has more bass and sounds crystal clear. Now here is the cool part, if I switch the speaker cables on one end of the amp or pre out at the preamp the right side gets better.
Sometimes I move things around and it plays good for a day or two then goes right back to it. When I am sitting in front of the speakers and change the balance on the pre-amp I can clearly hear the difference.
The only thing I have left is something in the AC power, and I did have it checked.
I could go on and on about all the things I have tried in seven years, but it would take me a month to explain it all and I figured no one would believe this story anyway. Next up is a priest.
I can tell you a little is my room and I know that, my hearing is fine but I am ready to get a baseball bat and put an end to my misery. If anyone has a good suggestion I'm all ears.
System
Speakers Dynaudio C-4 Tyler acoustics DX1 Aperion t-5
CD players Simaudio Andromeda - supernova and a harmon kardon
Amps Simaudio W-10 monos Adcom GF5500
pre-amps Simaudio p-8 Simaudio P-5 and even tried a Dspeaker dual core
Cables MIT oracles went to Transparent ref to assorted interconnects and anticables speaker cables
If I spend any more money on this system my wife may divorce me.
Thanks in advance.
About seven years ago I drove the volume up on my amps to high on accident and popped the bass drivers on my dynaudio c-4 speakers. Sent them in to dyn and had them fixed. Seven years later and two different systems, acoustic treatments, new speakers, cables, cd player, moved the system four different places in the room and the left side always has more bass and sounds crystal clear. Now here is the cool part, if I switch the speaker cables on one end of the amp or pre out at the preamp the right side gets better.
Sometimes I move things around and it plays good for a day or two then goes right back to it. When I am sitting in front of the speakers and change the balance on the pre-amp I can clearly hear the difference.
The only thing I have left is something in the AC power, and I did have it checked.
I could go on and on about all the things I have tried in seven years, but it would take me a month to explain it all and I figured no one would believe this story anyway. Next up is a priest.
I can tell you a little is my room and I know that, my hearing is fine but I am ready to get a baseball bat and put an end to my misery. If anyone has a good suggestion I'm all ears.
System
Speakers Dynaudio C-4 Tyler acoustics DX1 Aperion t-5
CD players Simaudio Andromeda - supernova and a harmon kardon
Amps Simaudio W-10 monos Adcom GF5500
pre-amps Simaudio p-8 Simaudio P-5 and even tried a Dspeaker dual core
Cables MIT oracles went to Transparent ref to assorted interconnects and anticables speaker cables
If I spend any more money on this system my wife may divorce me.
Thanks in advance.
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Thank you for all your suggestions. imhifiman The room was causing some of the problem, I have moved everything 180 degrees and have the system caddy corner in the room. I received my new speakers yesterday and everything is playing beautiful now, so the dyns may have had a problem. sfall I was starting to wonder myself about my hearing, and at fifty five years old im sure its not the best. But at the time being everything is playing great. |
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sfall I have had three or four system in this room before this one and never noticed anything till the day i popped my speakers seven years ago, now i am hearing everything, and it might be me. " Can anyone else here this problem besides you? At this point, I think that would be the most valuable piece of info to have. I'm sure you've already done this, but if not, you may want to have your ears cleaned. If you do some searching, you'll see quite a few audiophiles report significant improvements after a cleaning. |
To eliminate its not the room caused the problem, can you connect a headphone to your power amp speaker output by using a headphone adapter to confirm it? |
imhififan Added pictures of my system setup without the dyns or the p-8 pre-amp and the transparents are out at the moment ozzy I have cleaned them many many times thinking the same thing, but not the problem. sfall I have had three or four system in this room before this one and never noticed anything till the day i popped my speakers seven years ago, now i am hearing everything, and it might be me. tsugury I have been doing this off and on for seven years. I built a wall in my living room, I gone so crazy with this. ptss I moved the system to the other side of the room, where my sofa is in the pictures is where my system has always been. I do have a guy in Sarasota maybe comming to help me. |
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