As far as appearance on the screen is concerned Winamp out does them all.
The best test would be to defeat the equalization settings, and then compare
the various players. I would be surprised if there was a noticeable
difference between the players. The best test would be to play a familiar
piece of music on your system and then do a similar comparison with the
various players. You should be looking for familiar music selections with a
wide range of frequencies and sustaining notes. If you detect any type of
distortion then you can eliminate that particular player. Another idea is to
look for a frequency generator on the internet. Download the tomes and play
them back. You may want to visit a number of websites in order to get the
best download. Personally what I am looking for is not necessarily base
notes, but rather a sound that is crisp and clean such as a sustaining
guitar, piano or trumpet sound. We all have our audio preferences. What
sounds good to me may sound awful to you. I can, for the most part pick out
FM radio stations that use optamod equilization in their broadcast chain.
Optamod puts out a sound that is very comforting to the ear. . . . . .
.
----- 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. I don't have all the answers to
this debate but it raises some interesting issues.
Regards Steve
Email: s...@internode.on.net
Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com
Skype: steve1963
Jonathan Mosen List Founder
Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more...
http://www.pc-audio.org
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:
pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Jonathan Mosen List Founder
Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more...
http://www.pc-audio.org
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:
pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
