Lawbadman, upgrade your speaker cables to something halfway decent. 18 ga. is a little on the thin side. From my experience, try Winamp, free download, as your audio source control for your music. This has a 10 band eq in it and volume control, so you can put your eq aside. Playing mp3s from your computer is not a bad idea, I even tried it myself with some success using an old receiver, sub and speakers. It worked ok, but the source has to be changed. One last thing is interconnects, I used a cheap mini-jack to rca to tap of the sound card on my computer to the receiver. If you can find a better one, try it out if you can. For your speakers, I have no idea what MMg's are, so take whatever is suggested to you. Good Luck
Whats wrong?
Can anyone tell me whats wrong with my system? I play all my music from my computer which has an Audigy sound card, and then there is a Yamaha EQ-70 10 band equalizer, and a Parasound HCA-750 power amp driving Magnepan MMGs. I have some cheap Acoustic Research interconnects, and 18 gauge speaker wire which is also Acoustic Research. I'm just not happy with the sound, the performance is not as magical as I thought it would be with upgrading to MMGs from Bose 201s. Can anyone tell me what to do?