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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
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iam so happy but overwhelmed with the plethora of knowledge aNd input i am getting from you. here are the results of my first day.
On the way home i called my wife to turn on the kw 500 , it needs 35 minutes to warm up. when i got home i thoughT about movingthe speakers. The left wall is an entrance and a knee wall so there is not much reflection. the right wall is nothing but a wooden cabinet. i put the speakers strAight, with zero toe in AND then moved the right slowly about 10 degrees at a time.untill something happened.

"I WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO A SOUND QUALITY I HAVE NEVER HAD BEFORE, I PUT IN ABOUT 30 CDs I WENT FROM ONE TRACK TO THE NEXT FOR 3.5 HOURS. THE BRIGHTNESS AND PAIN IN THE RIGHT EAR Were GONE. YES. GONE. IT WAS DUE TO REFLECTION FROM THE WALL UNIT ON THE RIGHT. I TOEd THE RIGHT SPEAKER MUCH MORE THAN THE LEFT. IT woRKED GREAT. I HAVE EVERYTHING, THE BASS, THE MID RANGE IS SOOOOOOO GOOD. THE HIGHS ARE STILL SHARP. THE SYSTEM IS STILL BRIGHT BUT IT IS NOT HURTING MY EAR. WHAT A NICE START. A LOT OF PROGRESS FROM THE FIRST DAY. I AM SO HAPPY THAT I AM AFRAID TO TOUch OR REPOSITION the andras as IF I FOUND A TREASURE.
I LL TRY THE INTERCONNECTS FOR MorE FINE TUNING BUT NOW I CAN LISTEN FOR HOURS AT LEAST.

I LET YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS

THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND
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That's great news!!!
1donskee
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I would like to thank the support of the group on this subject. I am experiencing alot of high end glare. I had made some changes in my speaker placement, and couldn't believe it would cause this. When I brought them out into the room, they were in front of the TV screen, causing the glare. Once I moved them back , it reduced the glare. It also reduced the image, which is my next project. I'm looking into room treatments next.

Don
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.
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Scientist,

A lot of good advice above. I am running the MF A308 Integrated and the MF TriVista DAC. I am using Synergistic Research cabeling throught with good success. I would suggust you go with copper cables as as the high end frequency response is slightly less than that of silver.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jcgl/Scots_Guide/audio/Analog.html

The above link hase some good information.
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