[LAU] Sound quality with different music players

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed Jun 30 22:00:04 UTC 2010


Excerpts from bl4's message of 2010-06-25 12:08:11 +0200:
> Hello,
> 
> Suppose I have cheap onboard soundcard and cheap speakers, two different 
> music players (for example mpd and mplayer) with the same output 
> interface (both using alsa or both using oss compatibility layer), no 
> resampling, filters or anything, with dmix disabled and no other 
> software mixers. Is it normal (or possible) that for the same audio 
> files each player will produce noticeably different (in terms of 
> quality) sound? In other words, does the choice of music player have any 
> impact on final sound quality?

If you actually experience something like that, make sure that the
levels are really the same, otherwise any comparison is flawed.
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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