Dudes

I recently acquired a Loewe Aconda. The picture quality is astonshingly good, but the set I have has IMO poor sound - very muffled, like a tone control has been set to minus 5.

Any ideas?

They go on ePay for about £200 so if its likely to be a big repair bill, my girls will get an exceptional games monitor...

TIA

Mike

There are tone controls in the menu system.

Tried them, thanks Dave, not a lot of use.

Are you taking the output from the TV into the hiFi system, if you are using a set top box then you may get better sound by taking it from the set top box to the pre amp of the hifi system.

via the TV only, Derek; location of the TV precludes any othe option.

M

Are you using the internal tuner of the TV or are you using a settop box of some kind? If the latter, which connection to the TV (scart, FBAS, coax) and have you tried a different source?

What/which sources go into the TV?

Hi HT-K

Source is Sky, fed via scart. I also watch some DVD, scart also.

Mike

There has to be something simply wrong with the tv's internals. Sound from the Aconda is surprisingly good.

Bummer.

I've booked it into a local Loewe engineer, £25 for a look to see whats wrong with it. If its any size of bill, I'll just get another on ePay and let my girls have a mofo games monitor.

Sound via headphones is pretty darn good...

Regards

Mike

I once had something similar.
But the sound was only slightly muffled and got worse when I turned up the TV.

At the time there was some kind of problem between the digibox and the rest of the boxes and I could cure it by simply replacing one of the scart cables. Somehow it must have either been damaged or was simply such poor quality, that it screwed up the sound.

I simply replaced it with a different cheapo cable that came with a different box and I was set to go again.

You've already sent it away, so it's too late now, but I would have tried to connect different sources (only one at a time) with different scart cables and see if it makes a difference.
If not, it*s probably your TV. If it does, then it's something else.

thanks again HT-K.

I've booked the set in, but still have it. The sound is fine via headphones, poor through the speakers.

Hopefully somthing simple.

M

I had a problem a couple of years ago with my Aconda - different issue though, an irritating buzzing. Simple solution in the end - curing a dry solder joint. So it could be a simple fix and not necessarily big money. Fingers crossed.

gents

Its fixed, thought I'd say what the problem was.

Two, really; the default bass control had been set to +8, so when I adjusted it to zero, I'd actually adjusted it to +8.

Also, the corner location of the unit was far from ideal; I've moved it away from the corner a bit, sound is much better.

I've also bought a subwoofter stand for £56 - an amazing bargain bearing in mind it retailed at £1200.. and some standmount active Loewe speakers...

Who would have thought of a combination of default settings and placement!

btw, any ideas how much the Dolby Surround Sound plug-in costs?

Mike