I don't know about the specific components you mention, but, when I hear that someone is unhappy with the sound of home theater gear playing music, I usually suspect the HT receiver. These things are amazingly complex and have to provide multiple channels of amplification, so something has to be compromised or they would cost a fortune. Often, the volume control is what is compromised severely. Even two channel potentiometers that do a good job cost a fortune -- think of what it would cost to do seven channels correctly (I know someone in the HT business that thinks that one has to spend near $14,000 on a processor to get decent volume controls in multichannel gear). I know more than a few people that watch video using two-channel gear rather than deal with inferior multichannel equipment.
High End system sounding Terrible????
Hi. I invested quit a bit of dough in my system and I'm disatisfied to say the least. I have an Arcam AVR-300, Arcam CD-73, and a NAD DVD player with Energy C-3's for my mains and Energy C-C1 Centre. Movies sound fine but when playing music the sound is overly bright (harsh), and bass lacking. The sound is also kind of lifeless, not very involving. I had an old 30 watt/CH Rotel from the 80's that I enjoyed much more for music through the C-3s. Could it be bad speaker matching.I bought the amp new from Creative Audio and even if it's not broke in shouldn't sound this bad.Can someone please help...