My local shop has room treatments, but there are no other gizmos employed. Not even higher end power cords or speaker wires. All pretty basic stuff really. Always tough to demo a speaker in a store of any kind. Room variations are simply too great. Put a deposit down (if required) and take a floor set home... your gear, your music, your room.
DSP and stores - Anyone else get the feeling they might be sweetening?
One thing I’ve been thinking about especially now that I’m streaming and have EQ at my fingertips, is how easy it is for a dealer to sweeten a mix. That is, alter speakers to sound differently in the store. One dealer would not let me play my own music, at all. That was a big red flag. I didn’t have anything troublesome, just some Diana Krall or something like that.
Another made my ears hurt with speakers others tell me are quite neutral.
In another store the speakers were wired out of phase and painfully bright. In this case it could have been in the speaker setup as they had external resistors.
Anyone else have these kind of quirky experiences in a shop lately?
Best,
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Another made my ears hurt with speakers others tell me are quite neutral.
In another store the speakers were wired out of phase and painfully bright. In this case it could have been in the speaker setup as they had external resistors.
Anyone else have these kind of quirky experiences in a shop lately?
Best,
E