Flat sound - help would be very much appreciated please

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Hi all,

I would be very grateful for some help please. I own the following set-up:

> Cyrus Power
> Cyrus Pre
> Mission 751
> Connected to my pc as all my music are mp3s

I purchased the power and pre a few days ago. And the music sounds flat and uninteresting. I would be very grateful for educated guesses and guidance as to why. A few possibilities come to mind:

> Speaker or amp blown;
> Poor quality interconnect between amp & pc
> Poor separates
> I am also only using one speaker at present as waiting for connectors - could that impact on sound so much?
> Or am I being unrealistic expecting decent music from MP3s on a PC?

I appreciate that this is a bit random, but if anyone could use their skills, knowledge and expertise to give me a bit of help, I would be very grateful.

Thank you

 

[BenLaw]

How are you connecting your PC to your pre? Is the PC doing the digital to analogue conversion? If so, consider a separate DAC. Also, rip your music into lossless.

 

[shooter]

Connecting a second speaker would help enormously.

 

[Anonymous]

If I were you I would stop running any amp power/integrated on one channel...not good for amp at all, wait until both speakers can be connected maybe your problem will vanish

Cheers
Benny.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi

Thanks for your help. I am just connecting the PC to the pre using a 3.5mm. I will look up the digital to analogue conversion as I am not familiar with it. I just played a CD to see if that was better. It was but it still lacked clarity and punch. Sounded boring.

 

[MajorFubar]

plugging a PC into separates of that (high) quality is always going to give garbage sound, MP3s or not. PC's DACs are not HiFi quality.

 

[BenLaw]

Oops, didn't notice that you'd put you were only using one speaker! Agree with the others, have both hooked up and run in, then see how you feel. A DAC will bring a big improvement and ripping lossless will cost you nothing other than time.

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you all so much. I will do as you say and will also look into DAC. I will stop playing the one speaker also. Thank you!