I'm no audiophile, and my ears aren't what they used to be, but I would
be a little surprised if there were any noticeable difference in the
quality of the output you get from different media players. I haven't
researched this in particular, but the different reviews I've read of
the different media players talk about features, ease of use, bloat
ware, .... I've never seen a review talk about sound quality of one
software media player over another. I wonder how much of this perceived
differences in the players is due to default equalizer settings? IMHO,
if someone likes the sound they're getting from one player over another
than that's the player they should be using. I think the test Steve
describes would be interesting, but people wouldn't have to guess which
layer was which but just rather which one they preferred.
Like I said, I'd be a bit surprised if there were a noticeable
difference in sound quality between the players, but it wouldn't be the
first time I was surprised over something like this.
DJ DOCTOR P wrote:
Hello Steve,
I have used media players such as VLC WMP and WINAMP.
And for a while, I also used Real Media Player, they all sound pretty
much the same to me.
I haven't heard Foobar 2000 yet, I couldn't find the website to
download it to try it out.
I guess some things sound different to different people.
My best regards!
John.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Pattison"
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Subject: Re: Does the sound quality of different software media
players differ?
An interesting way to test this would be to play a song to someone using
say Foobar, Winamp and Windows Media Player without them knowing which
player was playing the song and then see if they could identify the
players correctly. I certainly don't think I could tell what software
player was playing a file just by listening to it. This raises the
issue of whether a software player sounds better to someone simply
because they like that player better. I don't have all the answers to
this debate but it raises some interesting issues.
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