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[rageofcreation]

I don't even know if I am posting in the right place but I am really hoping someone can help me out. My wife and I just bought a Sony MHC-GX470 home system. It's nothing super fancy and technically isn't even a home theater system although we use it for that as well as basic music needs. We had a smaller Sony shelf system for years before and now with the new one we have encountered a problem. The highs seem almost too high even with the treble turned down. On regular music cd's whenever a vocalist pronounces the "s" or "t" in words it almost hurts the ears. Is this just because we aren't used to this type of system? I hate to turn the treble down all the way because then I lose a lot of crispness in guitars and other background for movies. Any thoughts on this? Is there any chance there is something wrong with the actual system?

 

[Johnd]

Welcome to the forum rage! I'm just spiffballing here because Sony does not publish the frequency response of those speakers (they do rate the response of the cd at 2Hz-20Khz...Duh!), but I would imagine that your issue is less a treble control issue than one of an utter lack of bass.

Despite their proclaimed power rating of 250 watts (and that's at 6 ohms), I don't believe you'll ever experience a preponderance of bass on that system, which may well explain your recent perception of a preponderance of treble.

Additionally, your simple 1 bit dac does not sample nearly as much as a 16 bit dac, so there will be a substantial loss of information. I don't know if this directly answers your question, as you wrote there seemed to be a change in sound, most notably, additional treble. Short of a blown speaker (or other damage), for which you could seek repair (but I would not suggest it, the cost would not justify the result), I would not expect very much from this all in one system. Hope that helps.