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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,

E
erik_squires

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williewonka
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Erik - I deleted my last post because it was not really addressing your concerns WRT:DSP components.

But it did remind me of the time when analogue graphic equalizers were the rage.

The sales people back then did have an enthusiastic approach to demonstrating their use. and the were probably responsible for sales of speakers that did not really live up to the in-store sound.

But aren’t the stores that use acoustic tuning devices/baffles/reflectors doing exactly the same thing ???
- they too are modifying the sound of the speakers - just using a different method.

It really is a case of "Buyer Beware" - because the moment you get speakers home - they may sound very different.

Regards - Steve







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