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I have a Rotel 1572 integrated amp and B&W 603 speakers. I am unhappy with vocals in all genres. Too much sibilance! Sources are a Cambridge CD transport, a Rotel RCD 1572 CD player, both are running through a Denafrips Ares II DAC. My turntable setup is ok but not great, sounds better than both CD sources. I am about to give up and start over. Any advice out there?

fdfrank

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@fdfrank 

Many years ago, I had a Rotel amp + Rotel CDP + B&W speakers. 

This was a very fatiguing system for my tastes-- I didn't hang onto it for long.   

Can you perhaps borrow a different transport/cdp and amp from a friend and try each in your system?  Without being able to isolate which component is producing the sibilance, it'll be difficult to remedy. 

 

Of course, the sibilance is in the recordings but something is exaggerating it.