Question Can KEF Q5 Tweeters be tamed ?

[insider9]

I find ABBA quite tiring to listen to

Did you ABBA with other speakers? Was it a blind ABBA test?

 

[Edbostan]

Hi Edbostan, I tend to agree with you, these tweeters can be excellent in many regards or slightly harsh with poor recordings. Jazz, classical, Diana Krall all sound great . I noticed some harshness when playing Elaine Page- Memory too, but I also noticed it when I took the same CD to audition the great Dali Oberon 5- the same harshness at certain notes was still there. Rearranging my room furnishings has helped a bit, but the biggest improvement has been to not toe-in the speakers towards my listening chair. I have my speakers about 40cm from the rear wall and pointing down the room at 90deg to the rear wall with decent results.

I even swapped amp to my original Cyrus One and nothing really changed so I blame the quality of the source for many problems.

 

[Edbostan]

Did you ABBA with other speakers? Was it a blind ABBA test?

I do enjoy ABBA but in small doses. I have had a pair of JPW AP2s and found them to be very bright. I have owned ABBA vinyl LPs which exhibit the same ABBA sound signature

 

[Din5]

I have a few original Abba LP's and I don't think they are good recordings, at least not using my equipment. The singer's voices can sound harsh particularly at volume. I didn't notice this before using old vintage HiFi equipment..