jpinakron
Posted
4 years 6 months ago
I just bought some TRefs last week that I absolutely LOVE! But, in listening to some songs, I came across a few surprises.
In the song Everloving, by Moby, the song starts playing almost exclusively from the left channel. But almost immediately, there is static that come and goes throughout the entire song. In far less speakers, I can clearly hear something happening at the same time the static presents itself, but it doesn't sound like static. And with the song Thanks to You, by Boz Scaggs, there is a trumpet that starts playing at 15 seconds, from just the right channel, that clearly has static until 27 seconds. It goes away as long as the trumpet isn't playing, but it happens again at 1:22 for a few seconds, 2:30, basically, whenever that trumpet starts playing in the right channel there is either a slight amount of distortion or static coming from that channel.
What concerns me is that these two songs are used by two different reviewers as reference songs, but they never mention hearing static. Are these TRef speakers just that revealing? Should I be concerned about the electronics I'm using? I have swapped out everything, changed the left/ right channels, but it's consistent each time.
I'd appreciate it if others reading this who own the TRefs or 1Rs could try out those two songs and report back. But I really think it's actually part of the song that's just not as present on lesser speakers.
Thank you all,
Josh
(PS... I have swapped in and out a Cambridge Audio CXN streamer, an Emotiva XSP-1 preamp, a Marantz AV7702mkII pre/pro, Airplay, Qobuz, speaker cables, interconnects, used my computer via usb into the CXN, Optical, Balanced, and Analog outputs from the CXN... The only constants have been my Anthem P2 amp, and the speakers.)
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