[LAU] Sound quality with different music players

[Andrew C]

Uh oh, here we go again! The inevitable DAW sound quality discussion I
regularly see on the KVR forums.

Honestly, there's no difference in sound quality between applications, it
depends entirely on your soundcard and speakers.

Andrew.

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:08 AM, bl4 <bl4.929b at playker.info> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> bl4
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