Godfrey, So it appears. The files I'm listening to are from CDs, copied onto the MBP and thence to the iPhone. They sound much, much better on the MBP. I'm puzzled.
I think I'll try a third-party graphic equalizer/playback program, but somehow I'm not anticipating great success. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > Classical music sounds just fine from the iPhone, modulo the quality of the > encoding and output devices. Even my brother (a recording engineer) agrees. > So something's wrong with the encoding or the output. > > Godfrey > -- > Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigio...@me.com > >> On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richard Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks, Charles. It wasn't checked. >> >> Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be >> fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music. >> >> Rick >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser >>>> noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started >>>> Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day). >>>> >>>> "Gee," I said to myself halfway through the first movement, "this >>>> sounds crappy". I tried all of the equalization settings, and found >>>> "flat" was the best, but it still sounded crappy. >>>> >>>> Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same >>>> selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the >>>> headphones. >>>> >>>> So my questions are: >>>> >>>> 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is >>>> there a better one? >>>> >>>> 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond >>>> recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there >>>> any way to circumvent that? >>> >>> Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) >>> recompressed. But check your settings! >>> >>> With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar >>> so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the >>> right. >>> >>> In the lowest "options" box, look for the checkbox titled: "Convert higher >>> bit rate songs to xxx AAC". >>> >>> If that's checked... UN-check it. Now the music sent to your phone will >>> just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same. >>> >>> I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my >>> 48-year-old ears. >>> >>> -Charles >>> >>> -- >>> Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com >>> Minneapolis, MN >>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
