Quote Originally Posted by Feanor
No mine. I listen to classical music mainly, and want a natural sound. Unfortunately many CDs are too bright -- by which I mean they are brighter than what I expect to hear in a concert hall.
Your problem is insurmountable. The types of sound systems we have today cannot duplicate the musical timbre of acoustic instruments heard at a concert hall. Here's why. In a concert hall, the sound which reaches you directly is rich in high frequencies however, as reverberant sound (echoes) of the same sounds reach you, they have progressively less high frequency energy and therefore, the sound of live music at a concert hall is both more brilliant and mellower at the same time. To an audiophile this might seem like a contradiction but that's what gives live music both clarity and a beautiful round velvety tone. This is not captured in recordings which contain mostly only the direct field and relatively little reverberation by comparison. The acoustics of your listening room don't help much either. It can take a second to two seconds or more for these sounds to die out in a live performance but only a small fraction of one second in your listening room at home. In that time, the relative high frequency attenuation compared to the bass and midrange is not nearly as great.