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
Audioquests was lifeless in my system too… I never was satisfied with the sound till replaced all of them one by one. 
Plus one for London Grammar, being civil, having thicker skin, and look for the humor in things. Life is glorious and funny, at least enjoy the music.
Noisy power would cause all those good components to sound bad. Have a look at the Puritan PSM156 power conditioner threads on Audiogon. 
"Sitting with one's ears 5 - 10° below the tweeter axis gives the flattest treble." - JA gives sound advice!
Place the 802D's against the wall for the best/flattest bass! The farther out in the room the most uneven bass. This applies to all box speakers. Roy Allison investigated this phenomenon 40+ years ago! Subsequently it was called the Allison Effect. Roy successfully marketed a line of speakers that took advantage of this proximity to the room boundaries for flat bass response. Around the same time (1977) Peter Snell produced his Type A speaker utilizing this principle of locating the woofer near the wall/floor boundary.