Re: [LAU] Sound quality with different music players

From: Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 01 2010 - 01:00:04 EEST

Excerpts from bl4's message of 2010-06-25 12:08:11 +0200:
> Hello,
>
> Suppose I have cheap onboard soundcard and cheap speakers, two different
> music players (for example mpd and mplayer) with the same output
> interface (both using alsa or both using oss compatibility layer), no
> resampling, filters or anything, with dmix disabled and no other
> software mixers. Is it normal (or possible) that for the same audio
> files each player will produce noticeably different (in terms of
> quality) sound? In other words, does the choice of music player have any
> impact on final sound quality?

If you actually experience something like that, make sure that the
levels are really the same, otherwise any comparison is flawed.

-- 
Regards,
Philipp
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