Often "bright" is actually a lack of bass. Make sure you consider the possibility of bass reduction over the years as you cogitate about this.
Help, my system seem to have slowly gotten " bright"
I have all all of the same stuff for several years and it has always sounded awesome. Lately thought it has gotten where some of the higher frequencys have like a shrill to them. It kinda breaks up at louder volumns but is noticable at lower ones too. I have swapped amps out, preamps too but no change.
Really the only thing left is the player which is a 7 year old sony hapzeis. the only thing i have is a cheap cd player that is like 25 years old to compare. This player has a hard drive with all lossless music on it. It has an onboard DAC too.
Has anyone expierenced anything like this where a source or a dac degraded like this instead of just quitting altogather ?
Showing 2 responses by carlsbad2
@rhg3 has a great suggestion. Listen to one frequency at a time. If you have a way to play youtube through your system, test frequencies are available on youtube. As for hearing suggestions, your change is in the opposite direction of normal hearing degradation. You lose high frequencies as you get older. Many expensive speakers teen to be a bit bright because the target market is older people with losses in the highs. I guess it isn't impossible for hearing loss to be in the low frequencies. As for my suggestion on bass, realize that you will turn it up until the bass sounds right. If you have lost bass, then you will turn up the volume until the bass sounds right and you will have turned up the high frequencies so high they seem bright. It isn't whether you have decent bass, it is whether you have a balance between bass and treble. Jerry |