Insteresting...your pairing a $12k dac with $1kish speakers. I would sell the speakerrs personally.
How to tame a bright system?
Hi all,
I have been facing a problem, the brightness of my system:
Bluesound n130 --- Chord dave ---- audioquest fire (xlr) ---- Etude ---- copper wire ---- B&W 606s2.
The brightness shows up, particularly after I upgrade the cable from the chord company clearway (RCA) to the AQ fire (XLR). AQ fire really improved everything. However, the high frequency is too cristal to my ears (especially the "ding, ding" sound from the piano, I believe most of the people would love it but not me .... ). I like the cheap clearway, but it does not have the excellent bass and the dynamic offered by fire. I also tried with AQ Mackenzie (copper) which gives a proper sound but lacks space. I also found the vocal of fire is a bit forward (I am not really big fun of forwarding vocal).
Can someone help to recommend a cable that has everything of clearway but more dynamic and extension at the low end? I think this would be an ideal cable for my current system.
If possible, please help to focus on the cable rather than the other components. I know there is a lot to improve, but not at the moment. Thanks a lot guys! ;-)
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@aniwolfe +1 Wow, i had missed that. Yeah, given the quality of your other stuff you should be in the $10K range on speakers… typically just for a highly generalized rule of thumb I would be looking at 30% of my investment on speakers. I have effectively had much less but not in the price category of what you have. |
brightness is a signature to many B&W speakers. Across all the forums with similar threads the common denominator is that they are using bowers and wilkens. I dont own a pair myself but a B&W system came with my bmw m5 and some songs are unlistenable and pierce my ears. Fortunately there is eq but when i lower treble too much it just sounds lifeless It doesnt help that you use the chord dave which can have a clinical (analytical) sound to many and doesn't complement that speaker brand
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