Your speakers are extremely toed In.
Try facing them straight ahead and see what happens. Might help.
Help! Advice and Recommendations please (system sounds bad)
Good day everyone,
I am at the end of my wits. After being without my rig for 11 months due to a move, I am trying to dial in my system with horrible results at the new home.
I feel it goes beyond room differences and speaker placement.
Everything is identical (except the sound).
I would love a recommendation for someone in the CHICAGOLAND AREA that would be a good fit to tune my system.
In the meantime, I humbly ask the the group for any opinions on things to try. I am hoping that one of the settings is just wrong on the plate amps or the crossover, but I have experimented with all I can think of. I hope it is my ignorance on something obvious.
The mids seem muddled. Not rich. I am getting some perceived distortion and harshness when the mids peak. When the music is displaying a strong full spectrum I lose a lot of detail and separation.
The soundstage seems to lack depth. The speakers do not disappear as much.
It feels as though something is not being very efficient. Please note that the mid and low dials on the crossover, at my previous home, was turned to about 2:00-3:00. Now it is closer to 11:00. I had to turn it down otherwise the problems with the mids were worse.
I have the high gain setting selected on my DAC. Low seemed incredibly dull. I am utilizing the mid/high and sub inputs on the crossover.
I have included pics of the setting and room. Thank you in advance for any help. It is greatly appreciated.
Equipment:
I know you have access to all the audiophile publications, reviews , and best practices, owners manuals, and such. I have the following two-channel system:
Conrad Johnson Art Mono block amps
Conrad Johnson Act 2 series 2 pre-amp
Magnepan 3.7i speakers
Lampizator DAC
SublimeAcoustic K231 3 Way Active Crossover
2 GR Research 3x12 subwoofer towers powered by a rythmik A370PEQ plate amp.
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1) Your ears became normal due to not listening hi-fi seriously for 11 months. In previous house, your ears were easily get into the immersive hearing mode which ignore harsh distortion noise from your system. Also, your ears might be in numb state due to harsh audio sounds and your ears were used it. Anyway it’s a good thing that your ears can hear any sound correctly now. Use this chance wisely. 2) Check out if there is any noise around your home from construction or water fountain. Any slight sound from in/outside can disturb the hi-fi sound. Human can’t hear a natural sound and un-natural sound together at same time. Ex.1) We say to noisy talking people in audio show "please be quiet. Let me hear the music." Ex.2) A dog barking outside can be irritation when listening music. Try to hear your voice and speaker’s sound together. Say "hello" repeat with your speaker sounds. Watch Natural sound vs. Un-natural sound comparison Alex/Wavetouch audio |
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