[LAU] Sound quality with different music players

[Florian Faber]

On 06/25/10 12:08, bl4 wrote:

> 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 the data is identical: No.

If you play back compressed data, and the players use different methods
for uncompressing/reconstruction, the resulting PCM stream may differ.
And then you *may* hear a difference.



Flo
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