25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
12:41 p.m.
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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