Hey everybody, I'm new here, so, Hello!
Anyway, at the moment I am using a mixture of components for sound.
The main source is my PC, into which I recently installed a Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card.
The main amp is an older one that my brother built. It is stereo 100w x 100w. Unfortunately that is about all the info on it I have except for the fact that it is a two piece set. One piece is a relatively small main head which has the PCB and is surrounded in heat sinks. Then it connects via a "speakon" or something cable to the power supply which is roughly the size of an average audio receiver and has 4 giant capacitors and a really big toroidal transformer.
The output is my father's old set of JBL 18Ti bookshelf's. Titanium tweeter, 6" woofer, 45hz-27000hz. http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...ad.php?t=10622
Very good speakers, although recently I've been having a few problems. I've noticed that in the left one, there is a tiny rattle of some sort. It really is apparent around 1000-2000hz or so. It sounds almost like something could be stuck in the voice coil.
Another thing I've noticed is, despite their supposed ability to withstand up to 200watts, at relatively loud volumes, the midrange becomes worryingly muddy and colored, mainly I would say in the realm of 1k - 3k. You can hear it very clearly with something like the Fur Elise and many piano pieces.
Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated because these are very good speakers. Even now they still retain a very powerful bass, the high are very clear and they sound quite amazing with heavy rock like music, but I really want to be able to enjoy more delicate music at elevated volumes.