What is wrong with my system?


Hi everyone -

I’m posting here because individually I think my components are all good, but together my system is not making music, rather is is making bright bass less noise. Honestly, I’m thinking it’s no one component, but the matching of components that is causing this issue. I would like to get everyone’s opinion as to what I’m hearing. My components are as follows:

B&W 802D (first generation diamond)
Audioquest bi-wired Indigo speaker cables

Classe CAM-200 monoblock amplifiers
Audioquest Water XLR interconnect

Bryston BP26 preamp
Audioquest Water XLR interconnect

Mark Levinson 5100 cd player (PCM slow minimum phase)

thanks in advance.

Mark Levinson 5100 CD player


onehorsepony

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@onehorsepony 

I have had the 802D's since new along with associated classe stuff. I had no ideal what I was doing, it was all new to me... and had a 200 watt amp hooked up to them, actually a ca-5200 in home theater set up... I have since bridged the 5200 to give me 400 watts, after I learned how much of an idiot I was...

Putting a 200 watt amp to these is completely insufficient and risky. These things need a min of 400 SS watts to sound good. I know what you all are thinking, the 800's use to be hooked up to the cam350's at demo rooms and sounded good, yeah, but not great, untill they were hooked up to the mc501's.

You want GOOD bass from them, you want them to sound much better, you want to prevent yourself from accidentally clipping and destroy those $1000 a piece tweeters (like I did, not sure they are still available anymore), ditch that amp immediately. My 2 cents worth, GL.