Getting rid of harsh, shrill treble


I cannot play my classical cd's at a volume where the midrange and bass come through without harsh, shrill treble, especially the violins. I have bookshelf speakers on stands and subwoofer in a small 120 sq. ft. room. I have no treble control on my pre-amp. I tried a Taddeo passive Digital Antidote II between my CD player and pre-amp with minimal result. I have a solid state integrated amp, will switching to a tube integrated amp cure this problem or is it my speakers?
classical_fred

Showing 3 responses by sogood51

Unless you have a harsh component (s)...it's probably room acoustics as others have mentioned. That said, I find good violin recordings (at least on cd) far and few between.

Dave

Classical fred

No, I have not listened to those. I will do some internet digging today in search of those recording...thanks for the heads up.

Someone pointed out this cd http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=61223 as a very good violin recording...I'm going to give it a listen.

Dave