Any advice on tweaking the sound settings? I'm getting tinny background music with the (truaudio?) on, but the voices are fine, if I turn it off the voices are low but the music is clear. I've tried the EQ without much luck. Anyone with good setting...
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just keep trying ... sometimes i get the tin sound but most of the time it is just fine.
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I listen to a lot of Diana Krall type jazz and classical piano music and have not heard the sibilance in the headphones. Sadeo Watanabe's sax seems smooth to me in my head. Not a normal shortcoming of the phones but anything is possible. If you less than 500 hours on them just let them play a while longer at normal volume with a variety of music and see if it goes away.
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Hi Jay. I don't thinks so. I have mine pretty well and I've never heard this kind of problem in 500. Maybe you can search it on Head-FI.org. I think sibilance should be unnatural in any headphones at this price... Does it happen for all piano and sax or just one song? Try more songs and make sure it's headphone's problem or not, and if so, burn in it more hours. If still, wish you a good luck...
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I have two units. One is dead silent in the idle mode, the other has a barely detectable white noise. Try double-clicling on the Play/Stop button to change into another audio mode, such as for speech.
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Hi Mark: I found that there is a bug in my 250 at least (it was refurbished) which makes the volume drop way off if I don't have all the equalizer settings in 'custom' set to EXACTLY FLAT. If you do that and OK it with the checkmark, on mine, suddenly the volume goes up. Sorry no idea what firmware I have.
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There is a known problem with the Custom EQ that causes one of the audio channels to drop. Try one of the other EQ settings. I found out about it at the Anything But IPoD Forums...lots of good information over there.
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I might be getting noise from having your settings too high. Try turning everything down all the way except the volume and see if it goes away
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In reply to an earlier post on Jun 10, 2009 7:30 AM PDT Dave in Dearborn, MI says: "They are as tinny sounding as others I have tried and returned. I am getting frustrated wirth the trial and error and all the returns. I even got a pair of the V-MODA Bass Freq Earbuds offered here on Amazon that had great reviews regarding the bass response. I returned them right away....they were as tinny sounding as any others I have tried...and the volume was low as well---even at the highest setting. Could be I just got a bad pair, but I am not going to order another set of those either." REPLY: It sounds as if you didn't have either of these phones properly seated/sealed in your ears. If they are not properly seated, then the sound won't have the bass you're looking for, and it will sound tinny. I have several sets of fantastic in ear phones, and they all need to be properly sealed in your ear to give you the great sound experience that they are capable of.
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I just bought it & have Windows 7. It works fine except it has a hum that I can't get rid of. I've played with the gain button & the mic volume, but it's still there. Any suggestions?
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I haven't tried the Sennheisers but I do know that the Bose SoundTrues work very well with my classical music, both orchestral and opera. There is a bias toward rich lows and mids in the Bose, and that works well with this type of music. However, after returning my first pair because I thought there was too much bass, I was told about the 23 EQ settings in my iTunes Library. For the last 5 years, mine has been set to "Flat". Well, I bought another pair, put the EQ setting on "treble booster" and found it absolutely perfect. Not only did it maintain the deep lows but the tenor voices and soprano voices were beautiful. I suggest you try a pair, experiment with your EQ if you want (though a lot of people just like the sound of the SoundTrues right out of the box) and if you don't like them, most retailers (including Bose.com) will allow you to return them within 30 days or so. I think even if you enhanced the bass on these ("bass booster" setting) you find they are not as thumpity-bumpity boomy bass like Beats. Over half the people I know own Beats because they prefer bass over everything, but that is not what music is all about. Bose is balanced across the full sound spectrum. There is also a "classical" EQ setting in iTunes which makes these Bose bring out a nice richness for that type of music.
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I seem to have the same problem. I am not well versed in audio components and assume that that must be normal. I am hopeful someone will have a better answer or can offer a solution.
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Check everything:1. Computer volume still correct?2. Amp volume ok?3. EQ not messed with?4. Headphone cable ok?5. Cable to computer ok?6. Tube seated?Check the obvious first... Otherwise, I have no idea, mine sounds great!
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James,Use Apple Lossless and get great sound off your Classic 120....I'm going to order one as soon as I get through typing to you. My iPhone just does not hold enough music when using Apple Lossless. Thanks,Magoo
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I was having that trouble as well. I was having a little trouble hearing people, and people on the other end said that they could hear their voices echoing. I did find a fix for it, however. Go under your phone's settings, go to Call Settings (it's under My Device-> Call in my phone), and turn off the Noise Reduction. That worked like a charm for me, and while my audio is still just a little gravely, it's much more clear than before, and people on the other end say it's crystal clear for them.
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a separate post suggested turning tru-motion off... I just ordered my tv - hopefully it looks good. no suggestions on sound though
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Having the same problem Herberto is having, where I hear the high pitched background noise and cyclic modulation, even if I turn the volume down to 0. Seems much worse when I try to use my AV sources rather than cable, though playing MP3s through the USB port sounds fine. Muting (compared to turning the volume down to zero) doesn't produce the noise, but unlike a bunch of people above, I didn't notice an improvement with my external speakers.
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Thanks Wagner. I will set it that way and see if anything changes over the next day or two and post back here.So much for a day or two, I just tried it and it is very loud now. Mine wasnt refurbished, I bought it new in the package. Werid bug for sure.