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Re: the world best media player for free -- USER OPINION
de Terry 06/28/2006 01:35
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:44:31 GMT, HVS <harvey.news@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>On 27 Jun 2006, John Jay Smith wrote
>
>> HVS, Hi,
>>
>> if you dont use an equalizer or DSP there should not be much
>> difference in what program you do use to play an audio file...
>>
>> I would be suprised if someone could hear the difference
>> between decoders used...
>> (if you are comparing the same file of course)
>
>I'm poor at understanding the technology on this, but I've made a
>test file which has two playings of a 10-sec .wav clip; it's
>thus a 20-second .wav file -- big -- but if you're interested
>I've stuck it at http://www.whhvs.webhop.net/temp/gom-1by1.wav.
>
>The first half was played through GOM, the second through 1by1;
>each was captured/re-recorded through Total Recorder.
>
>I know I adjusted the equaliser on 1by1, but I also tried
>adjusting the equaliser on GOM, and it frankly made diddly-squat
>difference that I could hear.
>
>Whatever; all I know is that there's no comparison between the
>quality of the two playbacks.
It seems to me that the biggest difference between the two samples is
that the 1by1 sample is at much louder volume. You can't compare
samples at different volumes, the louder one will always sound
"better" (until you get to *really* loud volumes. :)
I'm no audiophile, but when I attempt to adjust the volume to be the
same in the two clips, they don't sound that different to me...
Terry