Hi all Perhaps I have not explained myself properly.
What I am thinking about is the sound quality of a player without using any kind of equalisation at all. The kind of sound setup I have does not need any kind of equalization. A friend of mine said that she can hear a difference in sound quality between winamp and media player with the equalizer disabled in both players. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dana S. Leslie Sent: 28 December 2008 07:54 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Does the sound quality of different software media players differ? This is funny. I think we have an ambiguity going on here, between two senses of "quality." When I first read the question in the subject line, I took it to refer to the *qualitative* "feel" of the sound produced by different players, as opposed to the *quantitative* numbers at which they might test out in a sound lab; and, in the *qualitative* sense of "quality", I definitely do hear differences between different players. The differences I hear may well be due to different default settings. If I tweaked one player of whose sound I am not that fond, I might well get it to sound close to another player whose sound I prefer. But that is why I prefer the sound of the player whose sound I don't have to tweak to make it sound as I think it ought; because I don't have to tweak it. NONE of this talk of the quality of the sound produced by a player has anything to do with the good vs. bad scoring a player might receive in a sound lab's test of its technical specifications. In this regard, I suspect you are right; all the players would score pretty much alike. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchalt...@austin.rr.com> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Does the sound quality of different software media players differ? > 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" >> <s...@internode.on.net> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 11:18 PM >> 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. 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