Getting rid of harsh, shrill treble


I cannot play my classical cd's at a volume where the midrange and bass come through without harsh, shrill treble, especially the violins. I have bookshelf speakers on stands and subwoofer in a small 120 sq. ft. room. I have no treble control on my pre-amp. I tried a Taddeo passive Digital Antidote II between my CD player and pre-amp with minimal result. I have a solid state integrated amp, will switching to a tube integrated amp cure this problem or is it my speakers?
classical_fred
Classical_fred...Yes the Blue Line are very good, but I can't comment on how they compare with xrcd. Try one and see what you think.
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This is how and why so many audiophiles spend money on the wrong parts of a system. Chasing down a character like this guy is dealing with before fixing the wire coloration that is causing it, that's the start of the audiophile blues. He can smooth his system out with wire with the existing amp, and not be using a colored cable to do it but instead going with the neutral place a system should be built around. There is such an extreme coloration from wire that any choice made on an amp would be the wrong amp when you get around to a wire upgrade later. Guaranteed you would like Audience or JPS wire in the existing system, then your component upgrades can be done from an enhancement angle as opposed to trying to band-aid a major problem. Lot of responses here for nobody to be picking up on that, although I didn't read them all.

When putting a system together around speakers like Wilson Audio WP7's it isn't the amps that are as critical as the wire is, wire colors the amp's sound.
Before you start wasting thousands of dollars, take a look at your recording. I can't even blast a Rickie Lee Jones remaster, it goes all to hell in the upper register. Whereas my Chili Peppers BSSM I can crank as loud as I can stand it and there's no harshness. BTW, I'm listening thru a pair of 35 year old Ohm Walshes.