RTI10's sound shrill

[FriedChicken]

I have my RTI10's, and they're great, except certain songs (phil collins - in the air tonight) produce this incredibly shrill sound.

I use the following setup: [spotify or itunes] --Airplay--> appletv --HDMI--> yamaha rx-a810 in "pure-direct" mode --coax--> yamaha M-65 --copper--> RTI10.

Is this just par for the course for the speakers, or is there potentially something wrong here?

 

[restorer-john]

except certain songs (phil collins - in the air tonight) produce this incredibly shrill sound.

Even the original track on an early pressing of Face Value is shrill, if you ask me. Lots of reverb/echo and not a lot of deep bass. It was 1980/1 and an analog master IIRC. CD hadn't arrived and recording "engineers" hadn't discovered they could record low frequencies as hot as they wanted.

I think it was remastered in 2010 but what you are listening to, I don't know.

 

[Wombat]

Phil Collins' voice is shrill as are the voices of many untrained singers.

 

[FriedChicken]

Well it’s not just Phil Collins. Also “shrill” here is an anthropomorphism. There’s a kind of shrill reverb in the room, especially if sitting off-center.