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Alain Arseneault

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Re: Welcome to Cheap & Cheerful HiFi!
« Reply #40 on: 26 Apr 2026, 09:58 am »
Glad she's happy with them. I used pair of these for a few years. Yea, they worked for PC stuff, but for music I found the bass was way to forward, muddy and boomy. No matter where I turned the knob, it was either too little or too much. Depends on the song, but I was constantly fiddling with the knobs.
Hi Bob in St Louis.
I agree wuth you, but for my wife, those speakers are 1000% improvement over listening directly from the iPhone12 speakers.

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Bob in St. Louis

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Re: Welcome to Cheap & Cheerful HiFi!
« Reply #41 on: 26 Apr 2026, 11:02 am »
Oh, no doubt!
My wife doesn't mind listening to music on her phone speaker. It's like "fingernails on a chalkboard" for me.  :lol:

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« Reply #42 on: 28 Apr 2026, 10:53 am »
Oh, no doubt!
My wife doesn't mind listening to music on her phone speaker. It's like "fingernails on a chalkboard" for me.  :lol:

For me, listening to music on a cellphone is like talking in a tincan phone when I was a kid.

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« Reply #43 on: 29 Apr 2026, 12:18 am »
Oh, absolutely!
I'd rather listen to music I don't like on a good system as opposed to music I do like if it sounds like garbage.  :lol:

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« Reply #44 on: 29 Apr 2026, 12:14 pm »
There's a situation where I do sometimes listen to music over the phone.  I watch music reaction channels where young people, sometimes classically trained experts, listen and comment on rock music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s that they've never heard before.  I started with The Charismatic Voice with Elizabeth Zarhov, a young woman with extensive education in voice and music who was also a working opera singer and vocal coach.  She's also a delightful person who's engaging to listen to.  I've branched out to several other favorites, there a zillion of them, most not trained in any musical discipline.  Since it's mostly commentary about music I don't always grab my headphones and dongle dac to listen, sometimes I do.  If I'm very familiar with the music I don't need to get the deepest music details from the Beatles Helter Skelter.