I think the equalizer is very helpful, depending on what you are listening to. I tend to listen to most music with "flat" equalization and it mostly works fine, but certain albums might benefit from some tweaking (according to my ears anyway) and I have no problem doing so. I have a friend who always does this and I think he's a little excessive. He doesn't like much bass in his music and is always fiddling with the eq. it's quite funny actually. But the main reason I love having it around is for movies, audio dramas, old recordings, etc. You can set your equalizer to accentuate vocal frequencies and this can make for clearer dialogue. If you've ever listened to old-time radio broadcasts or films from forty+ years ago you'll notice the lack of high fidelity. The equalizer doesn't *give* the audio that fidelity, but it can help bring out those frequencies that are present but not emphasised by a flat sound mix.
No doubt having a hardware equalizer, and more bands, to play with is better. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Heath via Groups.Io Sent: October 5, 2018 8:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? Dane! I beg to differ with you on one point. As my hearing gets worse I find the equalizer helpful. I heard of a pair of head-phones which actually performed a mini hearing test on you and adjusted the sound accordingly. Sadly they run off a phone ap so were useless to me. Also there were engineering bugs which the reviewer found disappointing. -----Original Message----- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 8:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? For what its worth from me and thanks for starting this discussion. Its been a very long while since I used Winamp, why did I stop using it? Because Winamp kept crashing when I tried to play video files recorded in standard TS format from my video TV tuners that I use still ttill this day though different models obviously. So then began my search for a new player that was easy to use and did what I believe a player needs to do, play the track when I press play, move to the next track or skip through a track when I press or hold the forward button etc. VLC did these things and many more besides. I grant you, VLC is not the friendliest App to get around but one can get around much of it using the JAWS cursor or whatever your thing is called on your Screen Reader. If I had my way equalisers in players wouldn't be present. I know I sound harsh but the amount of times I've seen equalisers abused to the point that people manage to stuff their speaker systems up causes me to perhaps take this view. A good sounding pair of speakers which don't cost all that much these days shouldn't require any additional medaling in the form of an equaliser. I went to someone's house the other day, this chap had what I would call a perfectly serviceable pair of Altec Lansing computer speakers, well at least I would have termed this speaker system in that way when it was bought but after this chap had applied God only knows how many equalisers in the audio chain? Well this respectable speaker system had been turned to the sound of mud literally, sure! Enough bottom but for what, to demolish the house and perhaps Next doors dwelling too? It certainly didn't sound good. And the top, well it was there but incredibly harsh to the point that my ears felt sore just trying to listen to the thing. Where was the Mid-range? Lost somewhere in the cocofany of noise. Anyway back to the point of VLC and I'm very pleased to say that the developers are slowly but surely making accessibility fixes as updates roll out and I reckon they're doing a fair job since VLC is an open source package. I use VLC on other devices such as my Apple Mac machines, iPhone and iPads and Android with pleasing results. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? The VlC equalizer is certainly a lot less convenient to set and save settings than the Winamp one using a screen-reader. One can easily adopt any of the presets, but saving your own settings requires messing with the not-too-accessible filters within the preferences dialog box. Actually the whole design is weird and I wish that Video Lan gave the ability to easily save and load multiple equalizer settings in VLC. Just curious, but why not have both programmes? I watch a lot of movies, especially with my sighted partner, and VLC is without doubt an awesome video player and far more versatile and just better at this than winamp ever was. However, I still use Winamp for my audio needs and it works exceedingly well for this purpose even in Windows 10. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: October 5, 2018 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? Hi all you nice audiofiles, Well I use VLC myself, but I have an old fascion student, who prefers Winamp. I want to persuade him to do the switch. But how is it with information about timing lenghth of files in minutes and seconds and such. Can we easily get to that info also in VLC? Are there other fields where VLC lacks information compared to Winamp? Is it actually the other way around? Best regards Brian -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1306): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1306 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/26845153/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
