{"id":8522,"date":"2006-11-21T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/speakers-and-stuff\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:59","slug":"speakers-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/speakers-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers and Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All previous speakers returned, original speakers reinstalled. Played with the amp enough to realize that the &#8216;High Cut&#8217; setting is not a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low-pass_filter\">low-pass filter<\/a> as I would have expected, but is instead a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-pass_filter\">high-pass filter<\/a>. Therefore, having it set too high basically keeps appropriate bass from going to the speakers at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had some difficulty adjusting this previously, but after replacing the speakers and retuning things, everything is MUCH better. I&#8217;ve got the filter letting everything possible go to the rear subs and the missing bass is now there. The rear levels have also been adjusted at the amp to be appropriate, although these may need a wee bit more tweaking. This remains to be seen, though.<\/p>\n<p>Other tasks I have successfully completed tonight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; Returned both pairs of crappy Pioneer speakers.<br \/>\n&middot; Acquired Thai food.<br \/>\n&middot; Ate Thai food with Belgian beer.<br \/>\n&middot; Watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/hiddenlife\/\">Frontline&#8217;s A Hidden Life<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; Balanced my checkbook.<br \/>\n&middot; Washed my sheets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s a plenty full night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All previous speakers returned, original speakers reinstalled. Played with the amp enough to realize that the &#8216;High Cut&#8217; setting is not a low-pass filter as I would have expected, but is instead a high-pass filter. Therefore, having it set too high basically keeps appropriate bass from going to the speakers at all. I&#8217;d had some\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-food","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13107,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/13107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}