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I don't know if what I'm hearing at times is the same thing you are describing too. Give me some track names and corresponding times that you are hearing this fuzziness and I will tell you what I think. It may just be that when you have a system that is more revealing, it makes the good sound better and the bad sound, well worse.

Lol, oops, this thread is super old! Don't I feel stupid.

Lol, so it is only a few days old! Anyways, I quite often hear a fuzziness, or crunhiness almost like distortion or what I used to think was a partially damaged tweeter. Do find some tracks and second markers. I'm interested to see if we are in fact hearing the same thing :-)

Eek! That must of took some time to compile that list. Just one or two tracks would have done, my man! Anyhow, all I had to do was listen to the Norah jones cd to realize we definately aren't talking about the same thing. The fuzziness I am hearing is more of a distorted crunchiness that is only apparent in some rock music (mainly three doors down) during electric guitar solos.

Anyhow, I would think that you definately have an issue here. You are noticing it quite often. The Norah Jones cd I am listening to sounds perfect. I also listened to the coldplay cd and heard nothing.

This is definately not a charecteristic of your speakers. It's interesting that you heard it in your surround speakers also. I was going to say that you should hook up another pair of speakers and see if you still hear the sound. It may be a pair of rca patch cords going bad on you. I've heard rca's do what you are describing. Go to best buy or wal-mart and pick up a new pair. You can take them back, and I would even if that is the problem, once you order yourself a good pair of the net.

Hope you get it figured out soon! Must be a drag to get a new pair of speakers and not be able to enjoy them. Those are nice speakers and they will sound great once you get this figured out. If there is anything else I can do to help you I will! Nice taste in music by the way :-)

I don't know about the bad recording idea. I do agree that some recordings are bad in some spots but you are hearing it all over the place. I don't know though I could be wrong, but still, good speakers should sound good most of the time and if they make "the recordings hard to listen to" why would people buy them. The point is to make the recordings enjoyable to listen to, to take you away so you get lost in the music. Keep us informed on what you find out!

Hey, K! I'm using a classe ssp-25 pre-amp, classe ca-150 amp, denon dvd 2900 as a transport, a wadia 170i to stream spotify premium and pandora one, a musical fidelity v-dac ii with upgraded power supply, paradigm studio 20's (v.5), svs sb12 plus, signal cable silver resolution xlr's and speaker cable, ps audio power cords :-)
I' super happy finally with my rig although another ca-150 and some cullen power cords along with some gik absorbtion panels and diffusors are planned future upgrades.
I've really been enjoying spotify premium lately. Once I figured out the wadia 170i, it's been all good. Spotify premium through a good dac equals c.d.'s on my system. It just opens up the door to so much music, which is really what this is all about; the music that is!

Hey, Kevin! Thanks for the nice reply! I love the musical fidelity v-dacii with the upgraded power supply (I use a pangea p-100). I think it's a great sounding dac for around $500 for dac and upgraded power supply. As for your question about the i phone vs. blu ray or t.v for a portal to pandora I couldn't tell a difference between my ps-3 and the i phone but I couldn't stream spotify premium over the ps3, and there is a pretty noticeable difference between pandora one (192kbps) vs spotify premium (320 kbps) so I had to go the i phone route. The user interface between spotify and pandora is totally different in that with spotify you can pull up multiple albums from one artist and all of the tracks on those albums whereas pandora is more like a radio station in that you just get whatever the want to play. I have pandora one but only use it to find new artists and then use spotify to delve deeper. Like I mentioned in my last post, spotify is really close to c.d. quality on my system, whereas pandora one is not.
Another thing to consider between the v dac and the music hall is that the v dac is asynchronous and the music hall is synchronous. If your planning on streaming music off your p.c., asynchrous is the preferred method because the dac corrects jitter and reclocks the signal.

Lol, no worries Kevin! I'm new to the whole streaming audio thing myself but now that I've tapped into, there's no looking back. I used to look through hundreds of used c.d.'s and make multiple trips to the library to get new music everyday, but no more :-)
Spotify premium has a free month trial. You ought to give it a try! I think you'll like it.

Interesting. So it sounds like it's a combination of the oppo and your speakers. I wonder if you hooked up a different cd player if you would still hear the hissing. I also wonder what the "audio processing" feature is adjusting in your oppo. I researched the nora jones cd being a bad recording and sure enough, many complaints about the recording. I would have figured that my rig would have brought those recording shortcomings out also, but I can't hear any of it. Part of me is glad that I can't hear it, the other part of me is wondering what link in my chain of equipment isn't revealing it. Hmmm....