XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 23 Sep 2023 06:13:08 GMT, Jan Panteltje   
    wrote:   
      
   >On a sunny day (Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:42:01 -0400) it happened micky   
   > wrote in   
   >:   
   >   
   >>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 a headphone connector?   
      
   Ah, a great suggestion.  I think so, in the back.  With a small jack.  I   
   have to find my headset with the small plug.   It's cheap too so maybe I   
   should go straight to***   
      
   >If it sounds OK on headphones then the speaker / acoustics of the cabinet is   
   bad.   
   >Use external speaker? or dump it in the garbage,   
      
   I never dump anything in the garbage, but I'll admit, when I offered   
   some computer speakers with terrible sound, and I said they might be   
   good for children because they had terrible sound, no one replied.   
      
   >give it away?   
      
   There still isn't a Wifi radio with everything I want.  One or two   
   others do have presets, but each one has somet hing I don't like.   
      
   External speakers sounds good.   *** It might have bluetooth output**   
   and I could send it to the AM/FM radio^^ on the shelf above that does   
   have bluetooth input.  It won't have stereo but I can live without that.   
   Mostly I listen to talk anyhow.   **The manual says "Integrated   
   bluetooth... transmitter to stream to Bluetooth headsets. ... Bluetooth   
   audio to every room in your house".   
      
   It can work as transmitter or receiver but not both at the same time. --   
   that's fine.   
      
      
   Well, the Grace had already found and would pair with/connect to my   
   computer which is more than 40 feet away, farther than I thought normal   
   bluetooth range was, but it won't find the Sangean radio which is one   
   foot above it.  The Sangean Bluetooth is still working because it paired   
   with Alexa as soon as I put the radio on Bluetooth.  In fact, I   
   unplugged Alexa to keep it/her from interfering.   
      
   So I'm fairly sure I can get this to work, but I need some time to think   
   about it.   
      
      
   ^^The Sangean WR-22 AM/FM radio on the shelf above has good sound even   
   though it sells even 3.8 years later for $149.   
      
   I bought a cheap early version of Alexa, the one that's shaped like a   
   cylinder of Quaker, and it only has 10 levels of volume and usually none   
   were the right one, so I send it to this radio that has 30 levels of   
   volume.  That works okay but I'd rather just push a button than have to   
   yell, Alexa play CNN for two hours   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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