Wire is not a tone control!
Need cable advice tome reduces mids
I have a new (used) SS amp/preamp, fully balanced. This combo produces too much midrange energy for my tastes. I like everything else about it, it has very good soundstage, imaging, dynamics, bass is solid and highs are smooth and clear. It’s just that the mids are too irritating for me.
I’m using Canare Star Quad XLR interconnects from the DAC to Pre and again from Pre to Amp. Are there any interconnects that diminish the midrange without doing harm to any other areas of the sound? Or would speaker cables make a bigger difference?
I already switched my speaker cables from Furez (FZ144AS) 14ga 4 connector copper cables to the only other cables I had in the house: Supra Classic 4.0 tinned copper. It helped a little bit, made the whole presentation a touch clearer and more balanced.
I thought about getting the new Schiit EQ as a last resort, but I don’t want to open a different can of worms. I’m hoping cables might get me there.
I guess I’ve always been a cheapskate when it comes to cables, usually using plain copper stuff and doing my own terminations. But I know there are a lot of you with way more cable experience than I have and could steer me in the right direction. Don’ t want to spend more than $500.
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@jasonbourne52 and I do not see eye to eye on much, but in this particular case I agree. Especially because your issue seems relatively so pronounced it’s better to attack it at the source, which is why several of us have asked about what’s in the rest of your system. So, what’s in the rest of your system? |
System is: Philharmonic BMR monitors - older version with scanspeak woofers pulled out 2.5 ft from front wall and about 3 ft from side walls. Audiolab CD transport Denafrips Pontus 2 DAC Denafrips Hestia/Hyperion pre - power amps Basement listening room 15 x 30 with full carpet. Cloth curtains are hung on side walls (first reflection) and back wall. Ceiling is exposed floor joists. Very little reverb. As an experiment, I ran the Hestia pre out to my 30 year old NAD receiver which has a power amp input. Even though it has only 35 w/c and slightly woolly bass and not the best treble in the world, I liked the sound better. It didn’t irritate my ears the way the Hysteria does. The Hestia/NAD combo also sounds better than the NAD using it’s own preamp. When I still had a 300B SET amp, the speakers sounded sweet, I just couldn’t get enough volume. |
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