Quote Originally Posted by gilesw View Post
I was listening to my BM last night and found it a bit fatiguing, at least that's what I think it was. I have metal tweaters and I've removed the grills. I do find that vocals are very prominent with the dac compared to my old naim cdp. It could just be that I'm not used to music being as revealing as this. I've got my old squeezebox playing some flacs rather than my pc now though so may be a different spdif source will help the situation. For the moment it sounds to me like the treble is the cause of my issues..
Sometimes it can just be down to a more revealing system. Perhaps more revealing in the top end than the in the studio.. they are still reliant on good sounding DACs and monitors afterall.

I recently did a swap that got me some JAS Audio Oriors. The ribbon tweeter feels like it is very fast, detailed and extended.

Listening to Radio 3, is a mixed bag now! Speech can be sibilant and a little irritating but get to the music and it sounds fantastic - immediate and open in the treble. (and of course that is with bandwidth limited FM)

With CDs it's fine too in the top end - quite sweet when that's how it is, hard and fast when the sound is like that (on some electronica, noise music).

So, yes.. a more revealing system perhaps showing up sibilance from BBC presenters now but not from other things.