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Re: Tubes with B&W speakers?

I don't mean to be rude, but those numbers are meaningless without knowing the parameters of the test. I don't know if it's the room, cables or upstream electronics that are causing the peak.

Assuming the peak exists and are caused by the speaker, any speaker, for that matter, what does it *really* mean? Does the speaker *really* sound bad?

When I perceive music as being bright, it's usually not because a certain frequency range is overemphasized. For me, the annoying brightness is due to very nasty harmonics being introduced in the pipe. If the harmonics are in some overemphasized frequency range, the result will of course be very unpleasant.

I don't know why people insist on pardoning upstream equipment when a system is perceived as bright. Upstream electronics are notorious for introducing all kinds of distortion, especially harmonic distortion.

Then again, the easiest way to tame "brightness" is to get duller speakers, and there are lots of them around. People don't complain as much about dull speakers because they can't complain about what they can't hear.

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