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Dealers and exaggerated treble

I've been thinking about some negative experiences I've had at dealers over the past few years. I don't mean the dealer's were unpleasant, they were not. I mean that I heard bad sound.


In a lot of those cases, the treble was exaggerated, or harsh to me.


I'm wondering, have you ever heard really bad treble at a dealer, but then you hear the speakers elsewhere and they seem fine?
erik_squires

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mike_in_nc
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Erik,

I haven’t had that particular experience, though I’ve heard plenty of bad sound at dealerships.

I suppose in your cases, the harshness could have been exacerbated by the upstream components or lack of acoustic treatment.

As you well know, many speakers have HF peaks; so do many microphones; and so do MC cartridges. A bad combination could be tough to take.

Mike


mike_in_nc
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@kenjit : Your story of the out-of-phase demo reminded me that I once had that experience, too. It's hard to understand, because the system was set up with care and sounded great once we fixed that.

I suppose the explanation is, we're all human. Maybe a phone call came in at the end of the system setup. The dealer had done a lot of work moving heavy stuff to make that demo possible, so I forgave them -- and I've given them some business since.
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