Edifier R1280T Bookshelf Powered Speakers - $99 @ The Market

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#2672439 12-Mar-2021 20:53

Disappointingly, I'm having to balance them to get the balance right. The main reason I replaced my old speakers was the balance was way off. These sound pretty good, but this is disappointing. Currently at 85% power to left, 100% power to right to get it to sound balanced. Still, fairly decent speakers for the price, but disappointing that I have to mess with them to make them work right. If I asked Warehouse to replace them the replacements might not be any better.

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#2672492 12-Mar-2021 21:05

timmmay:
Disappointingly, I'm having to balance them to get the balance right. The main reason I replaced my old speakers was the balance was way off. These sound pretty good, but this is disappointing. Currently at 85% power to left, 100% power to right to get it to sound balanced.

Take them back.

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#2672497 12-Mar-2021 21:08

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timmmay:

Disappointingly, I'm having to balance them to get the balance right. The main reason I replaced my old speakers was the balance was way off. These sound pretty good, but this is disappointing. Currently at 85% power to left, 100% power to right to get it to sound balanced.

Take them back.

Yeah, could do, lot of hassle and replacements might not be any better. 84% left 100% right seems about balanced to me.

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#2672499 12-Mar-2021 21:14

timmmay:

Disappointingly, I'm having to balance them to get the balance right. The main reason I replaced my old speakers was the balance was way off. These sound pretty good, but this is disappointing. Currently at 85% power to left, 100% power to right to get it to sound balanced.

Semi-serious: sure it's not your ears?

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#2672503 12-Mar-2021 21:20

allio:

Semi-serious: sure it's not your ears?

Fair question. I have some fairly high end headphones (LCD-2) that seem perfect, along with Audio Technical A900 headphones that also seem balanced. I've also tried both inbuilt PC sound and USB sound.

The left speaker always seems louder than the right. I wonder if it's that the amp is in the left and the right is joined by a relatively thin wire.

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#2672507 12-Mar-2021 21:33

timmmay:

Fair question. I have some fairly high end headphones (LCD-2) that seem perfect, along with Audio Technical A900 headphones that also seem balanced. I've also tried both inbuilt PC sound and USB sound.

The left speaker always seems louder than the right. I wonder if it's that the amp is in the left and the right is joined by a relatively thin wire.

If you don't notice it with headphones it's not your ears.

I do think I came across at least one review mentioning a similar problem, where the passive speaker had a significantly lower volume than the powered speaker. Seems like incredibly bad luck to come across that rare issue when your last set of speakers had a similar problem.

Mine seems perfectly balanced from my use so far.

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#2672511 12-Mar-2021 21:44

allio:

If you don't notice it with headphones it's not your ears.

I do think I came across at least one review mentioning a similar problem, where the passive speaker had a significantly lower volume than the powered speaker. Seems like incredibly bad luck to come across that rare issue when your last set of speakers had a similar problem.

Mine seems perfectly balanced from my use so far.

Unfortunately I'm sensitive to that kind of thing. I could get another set but who knows if they'll be better or worse. The last set was really bad, I had to balance left to 70%, these aren't as bad but still, they shouldn't need to be balanced to about 80%.

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#2672513 12-Mar-2021 21:47

Do the headphones use the same output as the speakers?

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#2672515 12-Mar-2021 21:52

gzt: Do the headphones use the same output as the speakers?

I have multiple outputs - sound card in PC, two different USB sound cards, laptop sound output, phone. Generally the headphones sound balanced in any output.

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#2672534 12-Mar-2021 22:29

I wouldnt expect these would be cheap enough to just use a potentiometer for volume control, which is where problems like that normally happen. I have some computer speakers where the left does nothing till its up quite loud and then is quieter than the right till its up about the 11 oclock position where it catches up.

If these really are using a potentiometer as a part of the audio circuit then I wonder what other corners have been cut.

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#2673530 13-Mar-2021 00:26

It's some odd multi-stop thing that spins round and round. Technical terminology.

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