Old recordings sound poor on my Burmester 232


Burmester 232 is a fine machine. But for older recordings the sound is bright and poor compared to my Willsenton R8 which is excellent bang for buck and handles old recordings well  Will adding a quality tube preamp to my 232 help? Is there any change I can make? My system is Burmester 232 + Focal Kanta 3s + LTA Aero DAC + Musical Fidelity MX streamer + Cardas clear reflection cables.

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@amvroofing Made a couple of tweaks. Added the ifi lan silencer, ifi purifier pro and ifi ipower x to clean up my LAN signal, My system sounds significantly better now for bad recordings. Burmester 232 is indeed a hell of an integrated..

@audphile1 Are you kidding? Of course I am not abandoning Burmester. I have it in my Mercedes and it is superb. I cleaned my LAN signal up with a couple of products from ifi and the “bad” recordings sound much better now. An example of a “bad” recording would be Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

@dogearedaudio ”Bad” recording =  Kashmir by Led Zep. Good recordings….most of the latest EDM and pop music. Anyway, my LAN tweaks have reduced the extra brightness. I am good to go for now. May upgrade my Kanta 3s later but that’s unlikely.

Also bought some Audioquest cable lifters but that’s just an experiment. Quite happy with the way my overall system sounds now.