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Default Attenuate highest highs?

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 9:44:15 AM UTC-5, ~misfit~ wrote:
I have a pair of 2-way speakers that I like very much - except they go too
high and are too bright. They're Sony SSK-30s and otherwise make great
near-field monitors in my office. They image and reproduce voice
exceptionally well.

I'll be 60 next year and can't hear a huge amount above around 16 - 17 kHz.
However they distract me too much with sounds that I can barely hear (no
other
speakers that I've heard lately do this). Because of this they're tiring to
listen too. Sony sold them as being ideal for SACD and claim they go up to
70
kHz (and call them "Extended Definition" speakers).

So what can I add to the cross-over to attenuate the highest highs but leave
the main body of the upper frequencies at the same level? A tiny inductor?
Surely a resistor would drop all tweeter frequencies and mess with the
balance?


I would posit that what you find irritating is not the presence of
stuff above 15 kHz, but stuff below that. And if there IS a lot of
HF material, especially extended bandwidth material (and I'd give
at least even odds there is NOT), then what you are finding annoying
is the result of some non-linear process in the speakers.

To put it bluntly, I would not be the least bit surprised to find
that something in your speakers (or, more generally, somewhere in
your system) is broken. It could be a mechanical problem in the
tweeters like a buzz or rattle problem, there could be some electronic
issue somewhere, all of which is if there IS very high frequency
information, generating signal at a level higher enough and a frequency
low enough that it would be EASILY audible to you if isolated.

That's the suspect I would be pursuing, knowing what I know about
such things.