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 ?

 

ericreyn

All this was in the last few months. It still seems to be decent bass but the highs are just rough. 

It would be very helpful to know all of your components and the venue would not hurt. Irdeally you could put some photos in a virtual system (under your user ID) so we could make a real assessment.

Have you tried a test cd to that goes through the frequency range, left and right?

OP   "my system seem " bright"

Find how much bright your system sounds.

While your audio system playing your favorite music, say "hello" in low voice and listen your voice and music.  Alex/WTA