Good evening from Berlin,
I recently switched to Kali IN-5 V2 speakers for my secondary workstation to have decent speakers with good price value. It's a three way speaker, I think the IN-8 V1 was already tested by Amir but didn't receive stellar verdicts. I grabbed the IN-5 because it's the second iteraton of the IN speakers and, well, where else do you get a full fledged three way speaker for 350 € a piece?
Anyway, what I was going to ask: what's a good rule of thumb for equalization?
Unfortunately, the IN-5 have a nasty dip as 12khz of about 9dB. See the attached image. The measurement was made with one sweep at 4M which took about 90 seconds, so I am pretty confident it's precise.
Now most of you know REW and APO and their nifty FIR filters. I used those to mitigate the horrible 120 Hz boost.
While I was at it, I even boosted the dip in the highs.
It sounds pretty good! But should it? This made me think: where is the limit to equalization?
Is max volume and distortion the limit? The highs shouldn't be a problem since the usually have the least distortion compared to all other membrane types.
What do you think?
I recently switched to Kali IN-5 V2 speakers for my secondary workstation to have decent speakers with good price value. It's a three way speaker, I think the IN-8 V1 was already tested by Amir but didn't receive stellar verdicts. I grabbed the IN-5 because it's the second iteraton of the IN speakers and, well, where else do you get a full fledged three way speaker for 350 € a piece?
Anyway, what I was going to ask: what's a good rule of thumb for equalization?
Unfortunately, the IN-5 have a nasty dip as 12khz of about 9dB. See the attached image. The measurement was made with one sweep at 4M which took about 90 seconds, so I am pretty confident it's precise.
Now most of you know REW and APO and their nifty FIR filters. I used those to mitigate the horrible 120 Hz boost.
While I was at it, I even boosted the dip in the highs.
It sounds pretty good! But should it? This made me think: where is the limit to equalization?
Is max volume and distortion the limit? The highs shouldn't be a problem since the usually have the least distortion compared to all other membrane types.
What do you think?
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