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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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