Guitar lacking bite, vocal lacking presence


I need some suggestions on how to improve my system.

Guitar sounds too woody and need some treble bite. The vocal reproduction
does not have enough presence.

I also built some of  my speakers but non of what I do could make the system sounding a little forward.  It's too laid back.

My hearing at high frequency is not very good so that could be an issue.

System:
Speakers : Thiel CS2.4
Preamp: Pass XP10
Amp: Sim Audio W7
DAC: Ayre QB9
Speaker cable: Acoustic Zen Hologram II
Interconnect: QED reference 40 XLR

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

andy2

Showing 2 responses by kofibaffour

Invest in a measurement mic @andy2

 

This - MiniDSP UMIK-2 and use the Moving Mic Method and that should give you an RTA of your space from your seated position and should give you an idea of how your speakers are coupling with the room and how that is affecting your guitar bite and vocal presence loss. I think you'd find the 800Hz to 3kHz recessed when you do this assessment and that should correlate to the guitar bite loss