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here is my delima............

I have a cj - 2500a, cj - pv 12, alon 4's,rotel 975. i have tube rolled my brains out, settling for amperex nos. I use tara labs vector 2's between the power and pre, ive tried different ic from audio art, to morrow, to audioquest for the other components, one makes the sound to thin, one makes the bass to boomy, I cant seem to get it just right. i use axiom tri wired speaker cable. the problem is i have this mid range, mid bass vacuum that i cant seem to get rid of. i wonder if my system is starting to degrade, after all it is an older system. or is this a product of lets say the speaker or amp/pre manufacture design. i did read some where that the older alons had a problem with the midrange on some of their speakers. just about every thing i could think of to remedy this problem but all i get is back to square one. i did recently have my local power compy come out and was told my box was only 100 amps. i did some calling around on that and was told my house could be under powered, which is just as bad. i have noticed that when i am playing my system and the heater comes on, the sound degrades. and i do notice the fluctuation like others in bad areas in sound from lets say 11:00 to midnight maybe(peak time) this hole in my midrange is not always there, it varies from day to day and time. i do notice that as i turn up the volume i tends to get worse. ive tried replacing all the drivers in my alons, but that lasted for just a while and then the problem came back. also when i turn up the volume, i get very little gain past say 11:00, after that the sound quality gets terrible. any help at all would be very much appreciated..............
kennesawjet

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kennesawjet OP
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thanks jamik, but what is a copper bus bar.........
kennesawjet OP
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just fyi, did some switching around of my ic's, it would appear that tara labs don't like to play nice with some of the other manufactures. I ran an additional tara labs (vector two's) from the cd to pre and it seem to sound better. before It was a little to bright for my taste to have more than one in the loop. will keep you all posted.........
kennesawjet OP
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thank you all for your fine responses, I think I will try to up grade the panel 1st. I do have the down stairs system on a dedicated line though. but let me address some of your responses individually;
Rrog - why do I need therapy?
islandman dan - I think you may be on to something, my room is rather small.
rockadanny - then you know what im talking about, ive heard many complaints in the forums about dirty energy in their areas.
mechan - I was thinking of that, going with a McCormack dna 500, or pass labs 350.5 and maybe a newer preamp like the classic se from cj
wilsynet - if I do anything it will be a whole home power conditioner and surge system, when I put the panel in. and again thank you all for your fine thoughts

rockadanny, what type of system do you have, just curious..........
kennesawjet OP
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thanks rockadanny im impressed, wow eggleston's. lots of out of the norm type stuff here too....
kennesawjet OP
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mapman, please if you can and when you feel up to it. post the whole thing. Im getting a feeling here I may be on to some thing.........thanks
kennesawjet OP
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thanks jomik, have a electrical engineer neighbor put some type of meter on panel now to record house fluctuation. he has already suggested new 200 amp panel. whole home surge protection, higher s value wiring. to name a few, will consider that if and when new panel box is needed.
kennesawjet OP
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ddrave44, the problem seem to stem from the tara lab cables. one day I separated all my cables as far away from each other as possible, and the sound improved drasticly. I remove certain units from the wall socket and used an extension cord to route them to other areas in the basement. this cleaned the sound up and fixed my midrange problem as well. now I don't have to turn up the sound as loud to get a pleasing return. I guess by the way the tara labs are designed, (hollow tubing) placement is evey essential. its like your spark plug wires in your car arcing, also I got rid of the morrows I had on there, this helped as well... seem to compete with the taralabs.
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