I disagree with your comments. The idea of a player with equalization is
that you have the capability of adjusting the shape of the audio in order to
meet your preferences in much the same way that one adjusts a volume
control, or the base and trebel controls on one's stereo system. There has
to be a way to composate for line loss as the signal comes down the pipe to
you from the internet. If you don't like the equalization settings simply
put all of your settings on flat response without shaping the audio.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Holmberg" <and...@pipkrokodil.se>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:11 AM
Subject: SV: Does the sound quality of different software media players
differ?
Hello!
To me it sounds like if you have to tweak the sound then this player should
be thrown out.
From my point of view this is This kind of talk is ONSENSe but thats me.
I mean if you have an eq built in to your player and not use it thats fine
because then you may be satisfied with the sound.
But if you would like to use the eq its ok for me.
I mean the eq will bring out more feeling to the music and tweak it as you
whish.
A/nders.
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Ämne: 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>
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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
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