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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


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tomic601
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yep, he nailed it. Get a tube preamp; ARC LS-17 or highers, Quicksilver, or Aesthetix, BAT, VTL…..

Your cables are pretty neutral, and as said everything else leans to analytical etched leading edge.

re bass - how far out from back and side walls are the speakers…and your listening chair ? does bass improve if you move off the chair ?
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