mefirefox

Didn't get enough screen time IMO. Those are some bad-ass routers and they pretty much still run most of the internet backbone to this day. Those line cards actually support 100G too, and based on the optics, I think that's what they're operating at, plus I think I saw some QSFP48s in the DWDM gear, which makes sense, 4 cables per card, 2 cards per router, 2 routers, makes 1600Gbps. Unfortunately, I have a feeling their upstream capacity is the bottleneck here since I don't know of any ISP that sells over 100G. Still boggles the mind; I've only ever seen 100G on backbones or VERY big tech company uplinks. Also, they skipped slot 0 which hurts my soul.

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Does it show up under playback devices in the audio devices settings?

Budget and space depending, you could look at http://www.krksys.com/krk-studio-monitor-speakers/rokit/rokit-5.html for something on the performance end, probably just at the cusp of the point of diminished return, good value given they are pro-grade.

Bring those down by a factor of 2 and try that. The increased bass is washing out vocals. Headphone brand, with the exception of "Beats," doesn't make as much difference as you might think with something like an EQ. It's more about overall quality of sound reproduction than frequency response. Beats have a terrible frequency response and noone should ever get them....ever....

I would flatten, "Level" those out at 0db. If you are using headphones, they should be optimized for a flat output. That way you are getting in your ear what your viewers/listeners will be getting in theirs. By-proxy, you will also be getting what the artists/developers/audio engineers intended. If you are going to modify the EQ beyond flat to get a particular sound and dont have the equipment for it, I wouldn't recomment going more than 3 of those ticks up or down in any direciton. a max attenuation/amplification of 24 db is a lot. To put that in perspective, the rackmount EQ I have next to me has a max adjustment of 12db and I only change it by maybe 4 db on any frequency. My advice for your bass adjustment would be to bring up the first 3 frequencies 2 or 3 notches. 31hz is barely audible and mostly rumble(but still important to overall sound), but 62hz and 125hz are what we think of as bass sounds. I'm a part time audio engineer so I've got answers if you have questions!