...as can power conditioning to pre-amp and source gear if your house line power is not clean to start with. Most peoples could use some improvement and an insurance policy at worst.
Also look into if all components have sufficient physical isolation from each other and other nearby possible sources of noise.
Some power cords help isolate preamps and source devices espeically noisy digital ones from each other. I find Pangea ac 14 se to be an effective and inexpensive solutio for that.
The common theme here is to do what you can with the setup you have to lower noise and distortion before going on teh speaker merry go round, unless you are already certain the ones you have are not capable of delivering the goods once noise and distortion feeding them from upstream is under control.
Once those bases are covered with confidence, then one can confidently say its likely the speakers.
You ahve good ones though so I just tend to doubt they are not capable of sounding great.
Those investments upstream if needed will benefit you in any case later no matter what speakers. Keeping noise and distortion to a minimum is always the key to good sound.
Also look into if all components have sufficient physical isolation from each other and other nearby possible sources of noise.
Some power cords help isolate preamps and source devices espeically noisy digital ones from each other. I find Pangea ac 14 se to be an effective and inexpensive solutio for that.
The common theme here is to do what you can with the setup you have to lower noise and distortion before going on teh speaker merry go round, unless you are already certain the ones you have are not capable of delivering the goods once noise and distortion feeding them from upstream is under control.
Once those bases are covered with confidence, then one can confidently say its likely the speakers.
You ahve good ones though so I just tend to doubt they are not capable of sounding great.
Those investments upstream if needed will benefit you in any case later no matter what speakers. Keeping noise and distortion to a minimum is always the key to good sound.