Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Cable television sound quality...how sibilant?

...the frequent use by announcers of microphones that have intentional "presence peaks" built into the frequency response of the mike, for added intelligibility of speech reproduced over the usually lousy internal speakers of many TV displays. If programs with those mikes are played over high-fidelity wide-bandwidth speakers like Axioms, you'll hear the sibilant presence peak in the speech range.