ok Paul & Phillippe I`m "trusting the science" still not getting the jab but in this case i`m going to stop self medicating Already sounds better -- lol i`m serious default settings with a clear mind, comfortable with the fact changing all those setting variables, power modes etc is not going to make a meaningful difference. i feel liberated. you should "Sticky" Phillipe`s explanation of the process and scientific answer to my questions all those variables are just too tempting to play with. i listen pretty much all day every day my test for audio equipment is pretty simple -- if i can listen for extended periods without just wanting to turn the damn thing off then its good. if it keeps me engaged then it is great. so far so good
again dont want to offend anyone but SOX upsampling what am i missing here ? it really makes me think it is not working properly on my machine because to me all it seems to do is hammer away at the presence range or something -- no matter what settings i put there, that is my takeaway -- all other differences between settings are just a distraction from this bigger issue. when i started to think this was the case -- i focused on a couple albums with some high frequency problems Cannonball Adderly Something Else (RVG form 99 or something ) and steely Dan Katie Lied phasey,splashy symbols on black friday extreme noise at beginning of Autumn Leaves every setting i have tried in SOX basically eliminates both those "problems" - to the point that with some settings i dont really hear symbols at all on black friday if someone wants to argue that those are alias distortions being removed - they should look up and read "katie had a bug" -- splashy symbols were there the whole time -- even on L.P. pretty sure i had that on LP back in the 80`s and pretty sure that is how i always remember that album sounding. seems maybe the chip makers know what they are doing with those cascade of filters -- maybe people should "trust the science" there also if someone wants to post some sox configuration that makes both those songs sound good without completely removing the "problems" i would love to try it also i would entertain any argument that says both those "problems" are actually the result of bad chip filtering - that those are aliases that shouldnt be there -- i`m just looking for the truth I understand people are not interested in accuracy when using sox but the corrupting of the original signal by one simple filter seems extreme to me. one question about this padding -- i still plan to A/B that again sometime but whatever how does it work with the software volume control again i could be wrong, and i did most of this reading a couple years ago, but i read that it is good to pad if using software volume control because as you reduce volume you are reducing dynamic range or something and the padding provides a buffer against this anyone know what i am talking about and provide simple explanation ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oshcar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114947 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
