XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/22/2023 12:58 PM, Bob F wrote:   
   > On 9/22/2023 10:42 AM, micky wrote:   
   >> I bought a $230 wifi radio that is impressive in many ways, but the   
   >> problem I have is that the sound sounds muffled   
   >>   
   >> Maybe it's okay for music.  I haven't listened to much music, but for   
   >> talk it sounds muffled.  Like literally they are talking through some   
   >> sort of muffle.  I don't have this problem with 5 other table radios.   
   >>   
   >> Is the problem that there is too much bass?   If not that, what?   
   >>   
   >> It has equalizer settings so I changed from default and various kinds of   
   >> music to "talk".   I didnt' hear any change.   
   >>   
   >> So I went to custom, which has 6 frequency ranges, and over time, I've   
   >> lowered the lowest 4 ranges to the minimum and raised the top one to the   
   >> max, and the one in between almost to the max.   This helped at first,   
   >> but future changes were smaller and I didn't see addtional help.   
   >>   
   >> I can still understand if I make the sound one or two steps louder, but   
   >> then it's louder than I want.   
   >>   
   >> Is there an audio ng that's not dormant that I can post too.   alt.audio   
   >> and alt.audio.pro had gone 3 years without posts.   
   >   
   > How big is the speaker in this "radio"? It seems to me that you might   
   > have bought a piece of cheap junk. But then, the only "radios" I listen   
   > to are the ones in my car and an old mp3/radio player with headphones.   
   > Otherwise, I listen to the radio on my home sound system, which has   
   > really good speakers or the similar one in my bedroom.   
   >   
   > Does your car "radio" sound OK to you? That would suggest your hearing   
   > is not going bad.   
   >   
   > Could you be listening to wifi sources with low data rates? Have you   
   > tried "stations"?   
      
   Have you tried other "stations"?   
      
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