magiccarpetride;623984 Wrote: > Got a bit of an unpleasant shocker yesterday. Came home from work, eager > to listen to some nice tunes on my system. Started playing some albums, > and got startled with a very unpleasant sounding presentation. Harsh > glare, thin midrange, loud but at the same time somehow shallow and > abrasive bass. What the...? > > Something sounded seriously broken. My heart sank. I'm in love with my > audio system, and to hear it broken like that... well, I don't have to > explain how hard it was on me. > > Anywho, started doing a bit of troubleshooting. It did happen to me on > several previous occasions (throughout a number of years) that my > preamp would get to the point of sounding muddy (this happened very > rarely). All it takes is to turn it off and back on, and the muddiness > gets cleared away. So I tried it last night -- no effect. I turned my > power amp off and back on -- same difference. I did the same to my > outboard DAC -- no change. > > Finally, unplugged my Touch, plugged it back in, and voila! the sound > returned to normal. Full bodied, sweet bass, rich midrange, silky, airy > highs. > > So what gives? Why did Touch end up sounding so toxic all of a sudden? > Any explanation?
Both my SB-Radios have done something similar a couple of times. I have no doubt whatsoever that its a software-glitch. Its a computer, reboot it once in a while. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Softsqueeze (at work), SqueezeCommander on Se X10 mini and HTC Desire. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86893 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
