charleski
Major Contributor
I listened on my EQ'd headphones.
Right out of the gate, loudspeaker C wasn't in the race. On track 2 it sounded like I was listening through a cardboard tube, something was clearly broken here.
The choice quickly boiled down to A vs B. Both had some issues, especially on track 2 (I suspect issues with the recording of this track), but B clearly had a bump in its frequency response. I estimated an error around 1-2kHz, it turns out it had a bump around 2-4kHz; red:speaker A, green: speaker B on track 1:
The net result of this was that the timbral balance became disjointed, especially for instruments at higher registers. This felt like a case of 'hearing something new' that shouldn't have been there. On speaker B the structure of the orchestra fell apart and while speaker A wasn't perfect, it retained that structure far better.
[Note that I made my choice before doing any analysis on the files.]
Right out of the gate, loudspeaker C wasn't in the race. On track 2 it sounded like I was listening through a cardboard tube, something was clearly broken here.
The choice quickly boiled down to A vs B. Both had some issues, especially on track 2 (I suspect issues with the recording of this track), but B clearly had a bump in its frequency response. I estimated an error around 1-2kHz, it turns out it had a bump around 2-4kHz; red:speaker A, green: speaker B on track 1:
The net result of this was that the timbral balance became disjointed, especially for instruments at higher registers. This felt like a case of 'hearing something new' that shouldn't have been there. On speaker B the structure of the orchestra fell apart and while speaker A wasn't perfect, it retained that structure far better.
[Note that I made my choice before doing any analysis on the files.]