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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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