(and how to fix them)
You did everything properly when buying your system. You read product reviews and made a shortlist, visited your local dealer to listen to your options, and bought the kit you liked the most. It’s all come home and been connected with care, and yet something isn’t right: your system doesn’t quite sing as you think it should and you start to wonder whether all the effort and expense have been worthwhile. But fear not, because what you may not have realised is that there are other influences at work here besides the kit itself.
Picking the right components is a great start of course, but there are a range of factors that can still affect the quality of the sound you get from them. We’ve listed some below, alongside solutions, to help you make your system the very best it can be. Some improvements are completely free while others will cost a bit, but in the end your system will sound all the better for the attention...
A ROOM’S INFLUENCE
It may surprise many people to learn that the room in which you listen is
