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Offline Nash

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« on: January 24, 2005, 09:57:20 PM »
I'm using Winamp... but I am becoming convinced that it is so totally messing up the sound.

I'm not sure how the software works for playing these, but are all players the same as far as sound quality goes, or do they each have some form of built in EQ?

If they're different, what do you recommend? Forget all the little features or if the interface looks like something out of freakin' Blade Runner - how's the sound when EQ is flatlined is all I care about.
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2005, 10:19:09 PM »
I USED to use Winamp exclusively.  I now use Windows Media Player 10.  Winamp is a resource hog to the 10th degree.   I rip CD's on my hard drive to 192Khz.   You rip at 128Khz?   I rarely use EQ's.   They just "color" the sound even worse.

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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2005, 10:23:12 PM »
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You rip at 128Khz? Karaya


Well no, I'm playing CD's of the store-bought variety. Maybe I'm making a mistake playing them through Winamp? I'm clueless here.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2005, 10:47:55 PM »
I run DFX with Winamp, allows much better sound.  Winamp kinda sad without it.

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2005, 10:51:58 PM »
Nash, I just did a little experiment.

Opened a Sheryl crow CD in Windows Media player.....disabled the EQ and listened to a track that I know how it's supposed to sound.

The kick and bass was boomy, whole thing really compressed sounding

I then opened it with RealPlayer. 10 times better. Just the software was the difference. Maybe try a few and see what sounds best.

But I hate the way CD's lose their dynamics running through a computer anyway.......can't stand it.

I play through a CD player, direct into a little Mackie board and into some powered speakers. You can really tell how much the computer screws up the sound when you side by side them.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2005, 10:55:39 PM »
i use either i-tunes, or musicmatch.

they both sound pretty decent to me...but then i am not overly gifted in the dumbo department.
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2005, 11:06:24 PM »
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I run DFX with Winamp, allows much better sound.  Winamp kinda sad without it.

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What is DFX? got a link?
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2005, 11:15:15 PM »
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What is DFX?


I just went and installed DFX. It's a plug-in for Winamp. Kinda like a slightly adjustable set of EQ presets.

Things like "ambience", "dynamic boost", "hyper bass". Then basically pull sliders to determine how much of each you want applied.

So it's not really what I'm gettin' at. Almost the complete opposite in fact. :)

Is there a difference in sound quality - purely unmolested sound quality - between the different players?
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2005, 11:20:11 PM »
Nuke - interesting.

I'll give that a try. But it's been my personal observation that RealPlayer behaves in ways that I've come to associate with the much ballyhoo'd internet computer viruses.
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2005, 12:06:17 AM »
Yeah, just say no to RealAnything.  It's just not worth it.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2005, 12:12:20 AM »
SOB, I've never had a problemn with it. I run Zone Alarm and realplayer doesn't try to do anything funny that I've ever seen.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2005, 12:19:02 AM »
If they've removed the spyware crap from their product, then good for them.  I still won't be using anything produced by their company.
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2005, 12:23:19 AM »
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I USED to use Winamp exclusively.  I now use Windows Media Player 10.  Winamp is a resource hog to the 10th degree.


Which is why I'm still using WinAmp 2.8
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« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2005, 12:32:53 AM »
Who cares about hogged resources?

Which one sounds the best?

Or is the actual process by which an MP3/CD is translated into audible sounds the same, no matter what yer running them through?

Are the only choices really between WinAmp, Windows and RealPlayer?
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« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2005, 12:39:56 AM »
Nash, they do not all sound the same.

I couldn't tell you which is best, but they do not all sound the same.
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