Sound lacks sufficient fury

My system -- NAD 325BEE integrated amp, NAD 525BEE CD player, Epos ELS-3 speakers -- sounds great most of the time with most music, but I've noticed that the sound sometimes becomes muddy and confused when playing complex rock or pop music at high volumes. I don't want to make too much of this. I most often listen to jazz played at moderate levels, and for that music the system produces clear sound that is extremely involving. Still, I'm curious to know what's going on.

Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8

Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8

"'Music's first offering, an eclectic, disparate, but mostly functional compendium of influences from 5000 B.C. to present day, hints that this trend's time may not only have fully arrived, but is already on the wane,' [editor in chief Ryan] Schreiber wrote. 'If music has any chance of keeping our interest, it's going to have to move beyond the same palatable but predictable notes, meters, melodies, tonalities, atonalities, timbres, and harmonies.'"

low frequency "disaster" with Mc Tube amp

First of all Hi all as I'm a "rooky" in this Forum.

The reason of this post is that I'm facing an issue with my Amp: a McIntosh MC2102 (8 KT88 valves).

Everything was OK (perfect, I would say...) for about 7 months. Then, all of a sudden, I switched everything on and I started to listen an annoying presence of "boomy" sound when low frequency instruments were played. I'm not talking about some extra-bass but a "boomy-effect" (sorry if I do not use the right terms... my English is really poor) that is really disturbing also the medium frequencies.

bugdet system

Newbie here; first post. I'm looking for a simple, basic ~$1000 system. Probably 2-channel will do it. I have only a $100 Sony DVD/CD player on which to watch DVD movies and play CDs. Just started looking. A sales guy said Rotel, NAD, and Marantz are the only companies that now make 2-channel integrated amps. I listened to Rotel reciever/CD combo with Paradigm Titan V5 Bookshelf monitors. I thought it sounded great; but then I've been out of loop for a few years on this stuff. Price offered was Rotel RA-1062 for $599, and the Paradigms for $450 (open box).

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