XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: '''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk   
      
   On 22/09/2023 18:42, 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?   
      
   Possibly. Is there a reflex port on it somewhere?   
   Stuffing that with foam might improve things a bit. Somehow   
   extra/excessive  bass seems to be a selling point for radios in that   
   sort of price range. It does nothing for intelligibility.   
      
   > It has equalizer settings so I changed from default and various kinds of   
   > music to "talk".   I didnt' hear any change.   
      
   Depending on how badly their equalizer mangles the sound you might be on   
   a no win battle with this thing.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
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