I’m curious.. Just HOW bad did your speaker sound? I mean, mine sounds bad, but it works. And I had always chalked it up as ‘par for the course’ because everyone always comments on how bad their speaker sounds too. It has always been a source of frustration, because the OP-1 is such a solid device, EXCEPT for that (well.. And the mic too). After reading your comment, I was wondering if I was falling victim to the same thing as you? When you say you had your equalizer too high, you mean the low, mid, and high? And were you peaking, or consistently hitting the red dot on the volume level when you had the EQ and mixer too high? I’d think that the speaker should be able to output anything below that (in the green) without issue.