Magnepans harsh sounding....

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Davey

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Re: Magnepans harsh sounding....
« Reply #20 on: 29 Sep 2013, 02:19 pm »
Resistors are funny?  Heck, I thought I was the only one.  :)

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Re: Magnepans harsh sounding....
« Reply #21 on: 30 Sep 2013, 10:02 pm »
I think you have an RF issue in your setup - that is why the floating shield in the Coral helped. BJC don't float the shield on their interconnects - they use straight coax cable, but the coral is twinax with a floating shield connected at one end. Is there a plasma TV nearby?

You may benefit from the choke tweak for your speakers.

No RF problems but the tweeters are a little too bright due to my room.  I may have implied that the sound is harsh when I meant a little fatiguing on some recordings along with some sibilant sound.  The AQ's tame this a little, probably because they have a higher capacitance than the BJC's which have a very low capacitance.  The resistors attenuate the tweeters by 1-2 dB which greatly helps.  I found using a lower ohm resistor helps with this but does not change the overall sound.