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Listening Room or Components or my ears?

My system is sounding a bit harsh, hard, shrill. (Cronus Magnum lll Amp, Focal Aria 948 Speakers, Denon DCD 1700NE CD Player, Shunyata Gamma Cables). It is just CD play back at 1/3 volume. It's a basement, L shaped room. Carpeted cement floors. The Speakers are 3 foot from rear wall. Left speaker 2 foot from side wall. Right speaker is 15 foot from side wall. Speakers are silghtly toed in and a 6 foot apart. Equipment rack and two subs between them. The wall behind the speakers is covered in framed posters. Is this an obvious fault? The walls themselves are wood paneling. Is there a problem with only one apeaker next to a side wall? Ant thoughts or suggestions? Thanks

bzawa
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squared80
317 posts
 

Proper speaker placement, acoustic treatments. If those don't work, no component will fix it. Get new speakers.

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wsrrsw
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About room treatments.. most places will come up with a plan for you after you send them photos and measurements and the web is full of info. Your first reflection point is the biggie. I used Music City Acoustics and it worked out well. Many system pages here will list where they got their treatment panels from. You can also use DSP aka Digital Signal Processing. Some swear by it and others swear at it. 

kennyc
2,875 posts
 

Room treatments- Don’t overdo it 

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toddalin
659 posts
 

Maybe none of the three choices.

Maybe you are just revealing the noise and poor recordings on the CDs you’ve been listening too? wink  

deep_333
2,434 posts
 

Time for different speakers...try a wharfedale linton

My system is sounding a bit harsh, hard, shrill. (Cronus Magnum lll Amp, Focal Aria 948 Speakers, Denon DCD 1700NE CD Player, Shunyata Gamma Cables).

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