XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/22/2023 1:57 PM, micky wrote:   
   > In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:58:26 -0700, 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.   
   >   
   > It's as big as in every other table radio I have, all of which are okay.   
   > (FWIW, even without a hearing aid)   
   >   
   > I hope it's not cheap junk for $270.   One review thinks it's not that   
   > it has too much bass but not enough treble.  That seems harder to fix   
   > with my plan to put things in the cabinet.   
   >   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > It sounds fine.  I have a radio in the car, the office, the kitchen, the   
   > bathroom, the laundry room, and another one in the bedroom, and I've   
   > never had a complaint.  I don't expect a table radio to sound like   
   > Carnegie Hall, but it shoudln't be muffled, muddled, or muddy either.   
   >   
   >> That would suggest your hearing   
   >> is not going bad.   
   >   
   > Glad to hear it.  :-)   
   >>   
   >> Could you be listening to wifi sources with low data rates?   
   >   
   > The data rate is not obvious.  They have a long list of stations/urls,   
   > with names like WBZ or KDKA and I pick some and play one and that's all   
   > I'm told.   
   >   
   > FWIW, this is the list of stations they offer, iirc 40,000 entries (but   
   > you can also put in your own).  I was able to use this before I spent   
   > any money. Put in any name or partial name and it will give you itesm to   
   > select, which once you buy the radio and register will go into your   
   > online file that the radio can access.  Though some did not work at all.   
   > Some other wifi radio I think just play whatever comes over the wifi,   
   > the one that is streaming from his phone or PC.  This is more like a PC   
   > that can go looking for the url it wants.   For all my shopping, before   
   > and today, I'm still not sure which ones are like this and which ones   
   > aren't, but if they give a url count, I think they can go looking.  That   
   > still won't prove you can put in a url you've found, like the latest   
   > msnbc url.   On their website, I found the manual for this radio and   
   > read it before buying the radio, but that won't accomplish everything.   
   >   
   > She wrote me today to say that "MSNBC changes stream URLs often, so   
   > sometimes we don't catch up until someone lets us know about it", which   
   > is probably why the one they had didn't work.  I'll check again, plus at   
   > leas4t for CNN there was a way, by pressing F12 on the webpage where you   
   > can play CNN audio, to see the stream url name.  It's not the same as   
   > the webpage url.   
   >   
   > https://www.myradiosplus.gracedigital.com/admin/home   
   >   
   >> Have you   
   >> tried "stations"?   
   >   
   > ????   
      
      
   There are lots of apps to do this with your phone, and probably plenty   
   for PC's, as an alternative. Is there a satisfaction warranty for this   
   "radio" so you can send it back and try alternatives?   
      
   I use StreamWriter on my PC to automatically store my favorite FM   
   programs, like the "Saturday Traditions" and "Thom Hartmann" shows on KBCS.   
      
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