Loki Davison wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Florin Andrei <florin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> Here's the background:
>> I'm using XMMS-1.2.10 on Fedora Core 5 to listen to various things,
>> mostly MP3 streams from Internet radio stations. I've a nice pair of
>> cans, Grado SR125, that are used for listening.
>>
>> http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr125.htm
>>
>> The SR125 cans are nice, in fact, they're very analytical and quite
>> revealing. Not exactly best for listening to 128k streams, but hey,
>> that's what I got, that's what I use.
>>
>> The problem:
>> The Grado cans are a bit too harsh for my ears. I very much prefer the
>> Sennheiser HD600 but I'd rather keep the HD600 at home and drag the
>> SR125 at the office to take a beating. The frequency response graph for
>> the SR125 shows some peaks in the mid-high range, which are probably
>> part of the cause for the harshness, and also a cliff in the low
>> frequencies:
>>
>> http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/all-headphones/grado-sr-125.php
>>
>>
>> I would like to re-create the negative of that graph in an equalizer and
>> apply it somewhere in the chain. I looked at the equalizer that comes
>> with XMMS but there doesn't seem to be a way to create a graph that's so
>> fine-grained. There's only a limited amount of controls that cannot seem
>> to be tweaked.
>>
>> How do I create such a detailed equalizer graph and apply it to XMMS?
>>
>> This machine does not run JACK and I do not intend to change that. I'd
>> like to keep it as simple as possible since, after all, the primary
>> purpose of the system is to do work, not listen to music.
are you using alsa?
if yes, you should run jackd, i think thats pretty easy to set up?
>>
>> Is there any player that can play MP3 streams and has a better
>> equalizer?
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> --
>> Florin Andrei
>>
>> http://florin.myip.org/
>>
>>
>
> Maybe use the ladspa plugin support in xmms or aqualung? Could be well
> suited.
>
> Loki
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 27 04:15:06 2006
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