1st time I have ever been on a forum-hope it I get some decent responses! I will be frank, my hi-fi set up does my head in. After years hoping to get my hands onto a good system I still haven't got there......The long and short is that the sound is a tad shrill for my taste - I suffer from listener fatigue, i.e. I always want to turn it down after a certain point or alternately put something else on in the hope it sounds better, more listenable. At worst I lose my interest and don't put anything on. I have difficult playing Bruce Springsteen or REM or any rock number. On a jazz number the horns on a Miles Davis number, say from A KInd Of Blue, are too bright. On a Classical piece the brightness can be exposed further on the more complicated moments in a symphony for example.
On a positive note if I listen to say an acoustic based album, say Nebraska, at 10.30 am on the volume dial, the system, to an extent, sings.Anyway on the whole my system is a tad shrill as I said. Don't get me wrong in certain moments the sytem can sound good and there is an initial 'wow' factor if I turn it up at the beginning of any piece...but....! I have never had anyone who has come round and said 'your system sounds good'. Apart from my own personal enjoyment from my hifi this is always a kind of litmus test.
It is paramount to me how a system looks in my living room as I have to look at it every day of my life. So I have to admit I was influenced by the looks of the new MF range a few years back. I got the MF 3.5 CD player and matching amp. I plumped with the Quad 12L speakers. My interconnect is a good qed but the speaker cable is their basic one. The speakers are on good stands and the room is about 5m2. I am looking for a warm glowing sound that is airy to boot! How do I get that?
I keep on thinking that as the speakers cost half of their respective siblings that here lies the problem and that it isn't the MF but the speakers that I should change. I would consider ANY advice and I am open to changing my ENTIRE set up if necessary although in a stupid sentimental way I would prefer to maybe hang on to my CD player and amp. So, I would be grateful if any of you out there can enlighten me. But please don't go down that route of saying I would like Valve amps and all the rest of it.
On a positive note if I listen to say an acoustic based album, say Nebraska, at 10.30 am on the volume dial, the system, to an extent, sings.Anyway on the whole my system is a tad shrill as I said. Don't get me wrong in certain moments the sytem can sound good and there is an initial 'wow' factor if I turn it up at the beginning of any piece...but....! I have never had anyone who has come round and said 'your system sounds good'. Apart from my own personal enjoyment from my hifi this is always a kind of litmus test.
It is paramount to me how a system looks in my living room as I have to look at it every day of my life. So I have to admit I was influenced by the looks of the new MF range a few years back. I got the MF 3.5 CD player and matching amp. I plumped with the Quad 12L speakers. My interconnect is a good qed but the speaker cable is their basic one. The speakers are on good stands and the room is about 5m2. I am looking for a warm glowing sound that is airy to boot! How do I get that?
I keep on thinking that as the speakers cost half of their respective siblings that here lies the problem and that it isn't the MF but the speakers that I should change. I would consider ANY advice and I am open to changing my ENTIRE set up if necessary although in a stupid sentimental way I would prefer to maybe hang on to my CD player and amp. So, I would be grateful if any of you out there can enlighten me. But please don't go down that route of saying I would like Valve amps and all the rest of it.
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