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everything sounded great until the upgrade

In short: I loved the sound of my modest system, until I upgraded my amp. Now it  sounds pretty horrible. It went from a warm sweet embracing easy-to-listen sound to knives and forks trying to escape from a bathtub.

So...

1. I can just unplug this new amp (used) and sell it

Any other options? I could upgrade my speakers but I have no budget for that.

2. I could sell the speakers and use money to buy used ones that go with the amp. 

3. Lastly I could change the source, but was it the culprit - to begin with?

btw - the sound of the "new" amp is decent with my turntable, and terrible with my CD player.

(If I wrote brands and models it would throw the discussion into "A sucks, B is great")

grislybutter

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itsjustme
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wine improves all systems.

 

itsjustme
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Without knowing, it may in fact be that "X" sucks is your problem... impossible absent data.

But keeping it simple - you liked amp A, you dislike amp B.  What's the question?

Amp synergy is not usually a huge deal unless either the speakers or amp or both are way out on some extreme - which in most cases means flawed.

You will also hear "its break in".  Uh, not in extreme. As a professional designer do you know how many new and cold things i hear? Sure they sound better warm. But they don't sound bad cold....unless they are in fact bad.

Why did you buy something without hearing it first?  All the pointless bickering here aside, that's what matters - where the eardrums meet the air

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