mbolo01 wrote:
Can anyone confirm the above so I feel less alone?
No need to feel alone.
Actually, I had the feeling that something had happened to the sound quality as well when I first started having problems with the 19. But I wasn't sure and I suppose I didn't trust my own ears, so I focused on the more obvious part of the problem: the connection issues. It's difficult to be 100% sure when you don't have anything to compare back and forth with, but I'm more and more certain that my 19 doesn't sound as good now as it used to do. It sounds more like just another speaker than a sub, like Norwin, I think, put it. I might be wrong, but I don't think I had the LP filter turned on earlier, and the bass has always been one of the things I have appreciated the most in my setup: very low, very tight and controlled. But if I leave the LP filter off now I get all sorts of vocal and midrange sounds from the 19. I've turned the LP filter on for the time being, but I still can't shake the feeling that my subwoofer now sounds like an avalance, when it used to sound like an instrument.
Also, right out of nothing, my wife today commented that there was now background noise coming from the 18s. I was a bit surpised, because she normally has little interest in anything that has to do with sound quality.
-h.