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The best course I can recommend is to use the best tools and resources you have available. Headphones are not ideal, but they're better than bad speakers, and probably better than even good speakers in a bad listening environment.
A lot depends on what you're mixing and what the target environment will be. Mixing music or voice that will mainly be consumed ...
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It is a good idea to avail yourself to as many different listening environments as possible. As others have mentioned, higher quality monitors and higher quality listening environments will allow for more precise control.
However, unless your end user will be listening in that same high quality environment, some of that precision will be lost to the ...
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Your question contains part of the answer: eliminate the speakers as a factor by trying headphones, or by connecting the current right speaker to the left channel and so on to see if the imbalance follows the speakers. If they're not the problem, do all inputs to the amp show the same effect? If so, it's very likely the amp.
If there's only one input and ...
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While I agree with Jim, to use the best tools you can, I always recommend headphones, if for no other reason to isolate what you're recording from the background noise. You have no idea how many times I've not heard the applicance running in the background until I had my headphones on. Alternately, you may hear a lawnmower outside, but only upon wearing ...
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Unfortunately this will not work. Or more specifically, it will not work well. The problem is that the signal sent to the speakers is very different than the line level signal expected by the amps.
There are speaker level to line level converters (most often used in car audio), but the resulting signal often leaves something to be desired.
If you are ...
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I use headphones for stuff like late night tracking , mobile production but will always check my tracks on a good pair of speakers in the morning
Sennheiser HD25 series are the bare minimum IMO
Headphones are great to get into production but you will need a pair of decent speakers sooner rather than later .
A mid range pair of Hi Fi speakers will be ...
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The key figure is the impedance - if this doesn't match the impedance the amp expects then you can damage the amp or speakers, so you either need an amp that can supply 6 ohm speakers or you need to alter the speaker impedance (4 or 8 ohm are more common so you may need to use an impedance matcher here)
Once you have that sorted, don't try and use to much ...
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A couple things come to mind...
Unless you're mixing for internet streaming, don't base your mix on how it sounds through laptop speakers. Those little 1" drivers are just plain incapable of producing anything down in the bass fundamentals range.
You say you've tried EQing in some higher frequencies. You can only "EQ in" what's already there of course, ...
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Generally, leave all such adjustments flat (e.g. off) unless you have good reason to change them. For example, if you must place the speaker closer to a surface than is optimal, you may get some high frequency (HF) reflections. Tuning down the HF might help a little... though the best answer is always to change the positioning.
Likewise, if the speaker is ...
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Are you examining your speakers with a sine sweep, or just your music?
It is possible that the music was mastered strangely, and the monitors are just showing that to you. If the problem persists as you (slowly) sweep a sine wave from 50 Hz to 200 Hz, then you should contact KRK's technical support to see what they recommend.
More on testing:
What does ...
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You can use a crossover before or after the amp - the only downside to placing it after the amp is that the amp needs to be able to drive the woofer as well as the existing monitors - requiring more power, and possibly reducing clarity.
In this scenario I would probably run the crossover before the amp, and add a dedicated amp for the woofer. This way you ...
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If sound quality is at the top of your list, I would first be looking for speakers that are powered. That is, look for a set that has it's own wall plug rather than allowing the MBP to push the speakers. The laptop's headphone amp will not be sufficient to push any speakers very loud.
There are many 2.1 systems (left, right, and sub) that fit this bill. ...
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What is Windows actually "doing" with this full-range option?
Nothing.
If you set Windows to the full range option, it is not doing anything to the signal at the output. You're sending the full frequency range to the speakers. That's not to say the speakers themselves may not act on the signal though.
There are crossovers in the speakers themselves ...
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Josh said most there is to say already. If you like the sound you have now over studio monitors (something NS-10 like, without subwoofers) then you shouldn't worry about it sounding horrible over laptop speakers – all music does.
If it already sounds bad over such monitors or smaller hifi speakers, you probably should do something about it. Again, EQing ...
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If you are just using the normal output of the computer system, then you are sending too much signal to the amplifier: the computer is adding gain to the audio signal and then the amplifier is re-amplifying it.
This is essentially how distortion pedals work for guitars: they add gain before the primary amplifier.
Adjust the volume downwards on the ...
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The Mitsubishi HC4000 does not produce audio, the RCA jacks (red and blue) that you are using are for video signals only, not audio signals. These video projectors only take video in and project the images, they do not accept audio signals as far as I can tell. The intention is that you would take your audio source to a separate audio amplifier with ...
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The M-Audio Delta 1010LT PCI card has 8 unbalanced ("RCA jack") outputs and is confirmed to interface correctly with Matlab using Psychtoolbox. It's a lot cheaper than the ProFire 2626 (currently about $200 US).
Obviously, you'll need an amplifier that can deal with 5+ channels as well if you go this route.
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