OP - Experience by most 'philes suggests that your equipment will definitely benefit from a good burn-in. "Brightness or Brittleness" is often what you might expect from gear that has been long dormant
Need cable to soften brightness just a little?
Would appreciate some hand holding on solving a small problem. I think a different cable interconnect might be what I need. Right now I am using Blue Jeans interconnects.
Have three new variables in our TV Stereo system.
New Oppo UDP-205
Musical Fidelity A3cr Preamp
Pioneer SX-1050 Stereo Receiver (bypassing it’s preamp)
Still in use is the Arcam SR250 AV Receiver.
Speakers are floor standing Spendor FL-6.
I am an opera lover and classical music devotee and like really good audio. The Arcam SR250 is just perfect for ordinary tv watching, but I soon found out it can’t equal the musicality of a good stereo receiver, so I rigged up a way of using my Audiomat Arpege tube amp for musical program listening. But I just found a better use for the Arpege and decided to replace it with the Musical Fidelity Preamp and the Pioneer Receiver. The Oppo is just a few days old as well, replacing an Oppo BDP-83SE.
There is a big improvement in clarity of spoken dialogue.
Everything sounds brighter and clearer and there is an unmistakable sense of power from the much more powerful Pioneer.
Musically it is harder to evaluate. At first there was a feeling of “wow, major improvement”, but on further listening it feels a little bright. Might be the sort of brightness that causes music fatigue.
How do I take just a little of the edge off the brightness without losing the wonderful clarity I’m getting?
And how to go about figuring out which of the three is causing that little bit of edginess.
Have three new variables in our TV Stereo system.
New Oppo UDP-205
Musical Fidelity A3cr Preamp
Pioneer SX-1050 Stereo Receiver (bypassing it’s preamp)
Still in use is the Arcam SR250 AV Receiver.
Speakers are floor standing Spendor FL-6.
I am an opera lover and classical music devotee and like really good audio. The Arcam SR250 is just perfect for ordinary tv watching, but I soon found out it can’t equal the musicality of a good stereo receiver, so I rigged up a way of using my Audiomat Arpege tube amp for musical program listening. But I just found a better use for the Arpege and decided to replace it with the Musical Fidelity Preamp and the Pioneer Receiver. The Oppo is just a few days old as well, replacing an Oppo BDP-83SE.
There is a big improvement in clarity of spoken dialogue.
Everything sounds brighter and clearer and there is an unmistakable sense of power from the much more powerful Pioneer.
Musically it is harder to evaluate. At first there was a feeling of “wow, major improvement”, but on further listening it feels a little bright. Might be the sort of brightness that causes music fatigue.
How do I take just a little of the edge off the brightness without losing the wonderful clarity I’m getting?
And how to go about figuring out which of the three is causing that little bit of edginess.
Showing 6 responses by hifiman5
OP - Are you using footers under your components? If not, the vibrations and resonances your equipment is subjected to could very well be causing a brightness (brittleness) to your system. New interconnects may mask the problem but if vibrations are the problem they will not fix it. Consider regular Tenderfeet from Herbie's Audio Lab. I have, over many years, tried many very different footers to combat vibration and none has come close to what the Tenderfeet can do without making your system sound "mushy".http://herbiesaudiolab.net/compfeet.htm |
@roberjerman Based on your post above, we may be misunderstanding one another. When you said "Component and wire burn-in is just a delusion (no scientific or engineering basis). Mechanical things (speakers) can benefit from some use - electronics, no!" I took that to mean that you do not believe in the burning in of new electronics. Your post at 10:24 AM implies that you were addressing warm-up rather than burn-in. If that's the case then we are mostly in agreement. I leave my system powered up 24/7 including my tube line stage and disc player. The tubes live on a l o n g time! |