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    How come "flat" sounds bad?

    When I say I have a "decent" curve, I mean that it has a pretty good bass tilt.....much more than the 3-6 dB you suggest When I wrote my second post above, I was using the digital crossover in the Oppo to drive the subwoofer. That appeared to work because I was only doing REW sweeps (and...
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    How come "flat" sounds bad?

    While playing around with various subwoofer configurations, I realized I had done something incredibly stupid. I was using the digital crossover in the Oppo so the Oppo was driving the subs directly, while there was a preamp between the Oppo and the mains. So the mains varied with the volume...
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    How come "flat" sounds bad?

    Yes. Thank you. I guess I have been at it for too many years. I used to know about loudness contours, but I never heard them called Fletcher-Munson curves. For many years I used a Tandberg 3002 preamp which had a loudness button whose contour was supposed to change as the master volume control...
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    How come "flat" sounds bad?

    I am new at some of this so please excuse me if these questions have been answered elsewhere. I have played with stereo for 45 years. For many years, my speakers were Dahlquist DQ10s (acoustic suspension bass). They had decent sounding bass. I also have a Velodyne F-1200-B that I sometimes used...
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    Whoops. No HDMI Output

    Hello. I am brand new to all this. I bought a miniDSP UMIK-1 from cross-spectrum.com for myself for Christmas and I just downloaded REW software. I undocked my laptop, grabbed an HDMI cable, and went downstairs to my stereo system, only to find out that my laptop (and dock) only have Display...
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