25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
1:29 p.m.
Florian Faber wrote:
On 06/25/10 12:08, bl4 wrote:
If the players use the same library for uncompressing and there is only
one version of this library installed, is it enough to assume that the
results will be the same?
And the difference you mentioned, can it be picked up by an untrained ear?
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bl4
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.