Assuming you ruled out the source material, if its the speakers, accept it and be more selective in future. If the room is too bright, then first treat the direct reflections: side wall, floor, ceiling.
This is done by placing a mirror on a side wall until an imgage of the speakers appears in the mirror from the listeing position. That is the spot to place an acoustic device (of 2' sq should suffice since the location is so accurate). Try a pillow on a table first, or garment on a hanger, whatever to experiment.
A throw rug on the floor similarly located if the room is not carpeted.
Then try the wall behind the speakers. BTW the greater the reflected distance (path of the sound energy), the less significant its reflection is. When it reaches and exceeds several feet in distance over the direct speaker to listener path, it is no longer an issue.
This can be a useful practice anyway, especially with box speakers, being carful to not over-damp, or deaden the room. Or perhaps it will add enough absorbtion if the room is too bright.
And if I may suggest, rather than prefer some 'sound' quality over another, which is masking the info on the source material, aspiring to 'true to the original' in playback. That is, the best you can do with any system is accurately reproduce whatever in on the recorded material.
With transparent speakers, appropriate setup, and a distortion free amp to power them, you will hear and can then discern the good, the bad, and the ugly, in available recordings.
If however you mask the source with perferred distortion in any component in the sysem, you are also masking any well produced and engineered sonic excellence that may otherwise be available to enjoy as 'live' like realism, which is all the more involving.
The system is a means to an end, is it not. Rather than an end in itself: where you would sit and listen to how 'good' your system 'sounds', and using the music only as means to enjoy the system.
Would not anyone rather than point out to friend how their system sounds, instead not have to point out how real the music sounds: as though it were happening in the room?
This is done by placing a mirror on a side wall until an imgage of the speakers appears in the mirror from the listeing position. That is the spot to place an acoustic device (of 2' sq should suffice since the location is so accurate). Try a pillow on a table first, or garment on a hanger, whatever to experiment.
A throw rug on the floor similarly located if the room is not carpeted.
Then try the wall behind the speakers. BTW the greater the reflected distance (path of the sound energy), the less significant its reflection is. When it reaches and exceeds several feet in distance over the direct speaker to listener path, it is no longer an issue.
This can be a useful practice anyway, especially with box speakers, being carful to not over-damp, or deaden the room. Or perhaps it will add enough absorbtion if the room is too bright.
And if I may suggest, rather than prefer some 'sound' quality over another, which is masking the info on the source material, aspiring to 'true to the original' in playback. That is, the best you can do with any system is accurately reproduce whatever in on the recorded material.
With transparent speakers, appropriate setup, and a distortion free amp to power them, you will hear and can then discern the good, the bad, and the ugly, in available recordings.
If however you mask the source with perferred distortion in any component in the sysem, you are also masking any well produced and engineered sonic excellence that may otherwise be available to enjoy as 'live' like realism, which is all the more involving.
The system is a means to an end, is it not. Rather than an end in itself: where you would sit and listen to how 'good' your system 'sounds', and using the music only as means to enjoy the system.
Would not anyone rather than point out to friend how their system sounds, instead not have to point out how real the music sounds: as though it were happening in the room?