What powers your speakers?

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Rami you do excellent work with your gear and don't need to change a thing.
Only question I have is, a receiver like you're using has treble and bass adjustments typically, thus you get the good sound out in your gym area. Sometimes they have a "loudness" switch. How do you set your receiver controls?
When you are mixing, do you just set the eq flat on your receiver?
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einstein magoo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 7:42 pm Rami you do excellent work with your gear and don't need to change a thing.
Only question I have is, a receiver like you're using has treble and bass adjustments typically, thus you get the good sound out in your gym area. Sometimes they have a "loudness" switch. How do you set your receiver controls?
When you are mixing, do you just set the eq flat on your receiver?
Thanx E.M. Yeah, I keep the treble and bass flat, but I do turn on the "Loudness". With the LOUDNESS off, I'd be cranking up the bass too much. I think, on my system, the LOUDNESS actually gives you a flat sound, and not have it on actually cuts the bass. It must be that because it sounds horrible without the LOUDNESS engaged. :)
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I guess I just always thought the loudness control kind of made a smiley face eq with hight and lows boosted, thus not really a flat eq curve. Anyway, keep up the good work
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einstein magoo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:08 pm I guess I just always thought the loudness control kind of made a smiley face eq with hight and lows boosted, thus not really a flat eq curve. Anyway, keep up the good work
Well, you're probably right that it's not a flat EQ either way. I'm sure it's somehow hyping the sound somewhere.

Also, I always thought the same thing as you about the Loudness control. I still do, except for my system. For a while I tried turning it off to see if it's just me needing to get used to a "flat" sound. But after a few days I realized it really does cut the low end without it on my system. Mine might be an exception, but I have to have it on.
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