XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In sci.electronics.repair, on Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:38:13 +0100, Martin   
   Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   No. I don't think so.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Interesting.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Well, here is the end of the first chapter:   
      
   I'm still going to talk to the manufacturer about what equalizer   
   settings work best, or any physical improvement like changing the   
   speakers, or stuffing with foam,   
      
   but two nights ago I bought a patch cable for the L & R Line OUts that   
   plugs into the AUX on the rdio above it, and now the sound is pretty   
   good, certainly good enough for me (who has a tin ear which is why it's   
   surprising this radio wasn't good enough for me.)   The cable merges L &   
   R so even though I paid extra for stereo speakers, it's monaural.   
      
   In addition, this means I can leave the internet radio on all night,   
   with the sound turned down to zero, and use the Sleep function of the   
   second radio, so it will turn off after an hour or two.   On  the   
   internet radio, the Sleep function** disables almost all the controls   
   and doesn't let me watch the name of the songs being played or see the   
   graphic that comes with each station or each song.  That's just   
   entertaining enough to keep my attention but not enough to keep me   
   awake.    **It just displays the time, which is boring.   
      
   The second radio, the Sangean WR-22, has very little tone control, but I   
   pressed a button my mistake and found that 3 years ago when I got it, I   
   had set the bass to -3 and the treble to +1.  Simple, small changes, and   
   I've been happy with that.   
      
      
   Back to the internet radio using its own speakers, I've only played a   
   few songs.  The music is probably okay, but the lyrics are muffled,   
   muddled, or muddy.  So even they are better through the other radio.   
      
   I know I'm not following the advice of people who said to send it back   
   but I didn't find a better replacement, also with presets.  Maybe there   
   is one but I'm tired of looking.   
      
   Thanks all. I couldn't have done it withou' you.   
      
   >>   
   >> 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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