Hey Guys,
Got a pair of edifiers S2000 MKIII. I have them next to a beaten up Z623 that I picked up from facebook market for 50bux. The previous owner used the Z623 as outdoor speakers and have blasted them.
The S2000MKIII have around 10 hrs playback on them. The Z623 is connected via stereo cable to computer onboard audio and the edifiers via optical cable. both running at 24Bit, 192KHz. I do not have any audio enhancers for mother board audio enabled so the logitechs are playing unmodified Audio.
I tried many types of audios right from just a person speaking (daily dose of internet) to pop, jazz, rock and everything in between. I even played some flac files on VLC player. Its very easy for me to switch speakers in windows by just selecting the output device and Yet, in side by side comparision I find the the Z623 to sound a bit better - 5 to 10% better in most cases.
What wrong am I doing? here is what I felt.
1) With voice only audio on edifiers like Daily dose of internet or Stephane Maarek speaking on Udemy at 1.25X speed, it feels like they are speaking through thier nose and there is audible echo becuase the speakers are big. But sound good on logitechs.
2) With other types of Audio, the Logitechs always sounded more open and bright and nice to listen.
I tried sitting next to the speakers for desktop and then sitting 6 feet away like i was watching TV. And then I tried it in bigger room sitting 10 feet away and keeping them 10 feet apart. But in all cases, I felt the logitechs were better. Everytime I switched Audio, I wished the better sounding ones were edifiers, but they were not.
There are cases where few sounds were more enchanced in edifier and some on logitech, but I felt the logitechs better. I was recently watching starwars and when a spaceship decends, the thrusters (frequency played on speakers not woofer) on the rocket sounded much better on logitech where as they were barely audible on edifiers.
There is nothing wrong with the speakers. Got a sealed piece, everything intact. Very balanced. So balanced that I feel the sound is coming from the monitor. Its just that I felt i was expecting a bit more from these after all the hype! These are infact the best sounding edifier after the S3000 right?
Am I doing anything wrong? Is the internal DAC of edifiers optical converters crap? Any feedback opinion appreciated before I decide to send these back to Amazon this friday.
Oh, I also tried connecting logitechs to logitech bluetooth adapter and then connected both logitech and edifiers to my phone and tried playing from my phone and even in that case, the logitech sounded almost the same or a bit better than edifiers just like on PC.
Thanks.
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