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My system is bright? I need help. thanks

Hi. it is my first time here in this forum. i would appreciate input and help from all of you. No sacrasm or bad langauge please. I had bad experience with other forums in that aspect. music loving people and audiophiles should be an elite, high caliber and classy community. This is rare to find today. Ok Down to the point.

My system
Musical fidelity kw 500 sacd player. I use the tube output.
Musical fidelity kw 500 integrated amp.
speakers:eggleston andra (not andra 2)
speaker cable: satori acoustic zen
interconnects: Nordost baldur and nordost quatrofil RCA
USe a dedicated 20 amp line with regular power cords(came with the gear) and a panamax 20 amp surge protector and filter.

This is in my family room so there is little room for treatment and moving things around.

problem: bright. the highs are killing my ears, after 1-2 hours of listening my ears start to hurt,sometimes 3 minutes. I have to turn the volume down. I tried postioning, it got a little better. I will try acoustic zen silver ref II may be it will help. The sound is otherwise phenomenal, i could be happy with more bass, but overall it is very good. Depth, tranparency, acuity and soundstaging are great. As for mids, i can see the person infront of me,I can hear the articulation of the tongue in the mouth before the words and tunes comes out. no kidding, but not for long because of fatigue.

I would really appreciate your input.
Scientist73
scientist73

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mrtennis
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i owned a musical fidelity a5 and have listened to musical fidelity based systems many times. the musical fidelity components are ruthless.

i have lived with acoustic interconnect cables--interconnect and speaker. they are not warm.

eggleston speakers are very revealing. even discounting the ac and the room, your electronics and cable are part of the problem.

i am sorry if i may have offended you by indirectly criticizing your stereo system, but i think your electronics and possibly cables are sources of extra energy in the upper mid/lower treble region.

what is the solution. try a more vintage tube sound. the top of the line vac integrated amp is worth a listen (yes, it's expensive). as for cable, dcca, chimera labs and sunny cable technology cable are worth a listen.

i am looking for a digital source myself and am disappointed in what is available right now. i am afraid the industry is heading in the direction of more and more resolution with the byproduct of imbalnced sounding components.

if you want to have a longer conversation on the subject you can contact me directly.
mrtennis
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i have heard the resolution audio several times and recently two consonance cd players.

neither of the players reminds me of the timbre of an instrument. while i might agree thay are not egregiously annoying players, they are a bit on the analytical side.

many of todays players use the burr brown chips and certain capacitors which rob the music of texture. you get a skeleton without the meat. the resulting presentation is very unrealistic as far as live music is concerned.

such players are not enjoyable, including the resolution audio and the consonance players.
mrtennis
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it might be worth a shot to try an equalizer to achieve a presentation that you are comfortable with. you might observe the adjustments you make to determine where the peaks are. this will not tell you the source of the problem but may be a way to eliminate the frequency imbalance.

you could instead use a good quality spectral analyzer, with the microphone at the listener positionto uncover frequency imbalnces and then decide how to get rid of them.
an equalizer is one of several solutions to your problem.
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