That's what I was talking about, too. I, too, can hear a difference in the
sound quality between, for example, Winamp and WMP, even when each has its
equalizer disabled. In fact, that is how I habitually use them -- with
equalizer disabled.
But, perhaps, the difference both your friend and I can hear has nothing to
do with the technical quality of either player. Perhaps, each could be made
to sound like the other, if its equalizer were enabled and sufficiently
tweaked.
But, since we prefer the sound quality that Winamp produces sans equalizer,
why bother with tweaking WMP or Realplayer, to sound like Winamp. It makes
more sense just to use Winamp sans equalizer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "André van Deventer" <andred...@webafrica.org.za>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:31 AM
Subject: RE: Does the sound quality of different software media players
differ?
Hi all
Perhaps I have not explained myself properly.
What I am thinking about is the sound quality of a player without using
any
kind of equalisation at all. The kind of sound setup I have does not need
any kind of equalization.
A friend of mine said that she can hear a difference in sound quality
between winamp and media player with the equalizer disabled in both
players.
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Dana S. Leslie
Sent: 28 December 2008 07:54 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: 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>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
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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