Guitar lacking bite, vocal lacking presence

I am going to be very blunt and hope to not appear as being rude:

The very first thing I did was look at your profile. You are here since 2003 (at least that is what it shows me). That is 22 years. In all these years one would (I assume) have learned to arrange a system properly; especially with such good components that you have. Can you try to clean the mess, set up the speakers properly and then try to play some music? How big is your room, how far are the speakers from the back wall and how far do you sit from the speakers?

@milpai

Plus one ... cmon

I would suggest you buy a decent hifi rack and sort out the cables etc, as it will not help with everything sitting on the floor soaking up all the resonances etc.

Did we time warp back to April 1st??!

Looking past the setup, you don’t identify your source. If there is an issue with the source, and/or it’s connections, even the best system can’t make it sound good.